First Nation groups set mining policy and rules in Canada

• Autores: Antonio Torrisi
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 569, 2015 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Febrero)
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The new mining legislation was set by Xat'sull (Soda Creek), T'exelc (Williams Lake Indian Band), Tsq'escen (Canim Lake) and Stswecem'c/Xgat'tem (Canoe & Dog Creek) First Nation groups and covers an area of 5m ha (50,000km[superscript]2 ) in the Cariboo and Chilcotin regions in BC.

    BC hosts several industrial minerals projects including Taseko Mines and Commerce Resources' niobium projects, International Montoro Resources' Chucinka rare earths, Heemskirk Consolidated's Moberly frac sand, Encanto Potash Corp.'s Muskowekman potash and Eagle Graphite Corp's graphite projects.

    Bev Sellars, chief of the Soda Creek First Nation, said that the group has been continuously ignored by mining operators in BC, with some of the companies claiming not to know what First Nations want, due to the lack "rules to play by".