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The First Nation of Na-Cho Nyak Dun has a long tradition of mining with the Keno Hill mines starting from the 1910s. [5] A silver mining company, Alexco, entered bilateral agreements with the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyak Dun. Operations on the traditional territory evolved from exploration, development, to production.
Siksika Nation was willing to support this project on the basis of meaningful consultation, but opposed any future coal mining applications. [25] A nearby coal project at Tent Mountain resulted in the decline of positive relations between another coal company, Montem Resources, and the Kainai and Siksika First Nations.
In 2013, the 22nd Navajo Nation Council created Navajo Transitional Energy Company (NTEC), under legislation No. 0116-13 with a vote of 7-4. [2] By the end of that year, NTEC acquired Navajo Mine. NTEC received a lease extension through the Department of the Interior and the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation & Enforcement (OSMRE) for 25-year ...
A First Nation group in Canada's British Columbia province has put top gold miner Newmont Corp on notice that it is unlikely to gain buy-in for a gold and copper project, amid concern that mining ...
They have 500 full-time employees with 100 from Attawapiskat First Nation. De Beers also employs Attawapiskat First Nation in winter road construction. The "mine employs 100 people from Attawapiskat at any one time. It generates about $400 million in annual revenue for the company." Sub-contractors from Attawapiskat First Nation also work for ...
The first bitcoin mining operation on Navajo land offers jobs and more revenue to the nation while also illuminating the Nation's unequal distribution of power. ... A Canada-based company called ...
James Jackson McAlester (October 1, 1842 – September 21, 1920) was an American coal baron and politician active in Indian Territory and later Oklahoma. He served as a United States Marshal for Indian Territory from 1893 to 1897, one of three members of the first Oklahoma Corporation Commission from 1907 to 1911, and as the second lieutenant governor of Oklahoma from 1911 to 1915.
The Batchewana First Nation (Ojibwe: Obaajiwan Anishinaabek) [2] ... It takes its name from the Rankin Mining Company, from which the land was purchased in 1939. It ...