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September 20, 2024
Victoria Gold owes millions to First Nation of Na-Cho Nyӓk Dun businesses, report says
Businesses are owned by the First Nation’s development corporation and citizens CBC North: Businesses owned by the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyӓk Dun’s development corporation and citizens are collectively owed at least $9.3 million by Victoria Gold Corp, according to figures released by the receiver in charge of the company’s assets. The amounts owed to creditors...
September 3, 2024
Yukon launches review board to investigate gold mine landslide, chemical leak
Ore material at the mine site that has moved towards Dublin Gulch valley. Photo: Yukon Government APTN News: The Yukon government has launched an independent review board into the cause of a landslide that occurred at the Eagle Gold Mine site on the traditional territory of First Nation Na-Cho Nyäk Dun (FNNND). The three-person board...
August 24, 2024
Troubled water
In June, Yukon’s Eagle gold mine saw what the territory’s mines minister is calling a “catastrophic failure”: the release of hundreds of millions of litres of toxic cyanide solution into the environment. For many local residents, it’s a wake-up call about the risks and costs of large-scale mining in the territory. CBC News: Steve Buyck...
August 16, 2024
Yukon minister says there’s still ‘hope’ for gold mining to continue at disaster site
APTN News: The Canadian Press – Yukon Justice Minister Tracy-Anne McPhee says the territory’s government is still hopeful that mining can eventually restart at the site of the Eagle Gold mine disaster after its owner was ordered into receivership this week. McPhee says mining remains an important part of Yukon’s economy, but “it must be...
August 14, 2024
Is Canada’s critical-minerals strategy a green shift or greenwashing?
Indigenous and remote communities will bear the long-lasting ecological, social and cultural impacts of mining. This cannot be ignored. NationTalk: Policy Options – Canada has followed the lead of many countries recently by adopting policies and measures to promote rapid development of its value chain for domestic critical minerals essential in clean energy technology. Climate change, geopolitical and economic turmoil are...
August 14, 2024
Court grants Yukon government’s application to appoint receiver to oversee gold mine clean up
Victoria Gold’s Eagle gold mine site north of Mayo, Yukon. Photo: Yukon Government APTN News: An Ontario court has granted a request from the Yukon government to appoint a receiver to take control of the Eagle Gold Mine. The mine, owned by Victoria Gold, is located near the Yukon community of Mayo on the traditional...
August 14, 2024
Yukon asking court to appoint receiver over Victoria Gold Corp., says company
The Eagle Gold Mine in central Yukon. Photo: Victoria Gold Corp. APTN News: A gold company operating in Yukon says the territorial government is applying to the courts to appoint a receiver to take over its operations. Victoria Gold Corp. has been in the news since June 24 after a massive landslide at its Eagle...
August 9, 2024
Yukon officials say dozens of dead fish found near Yukon gold mine landslide
APTN News: Yukon government officials say 68 dead fish were collected from Haggart Creek a few kilometers downstream of the gold mine that experienced a massive landslide that allowed cyanide and other chemicals to leach into nearby waterways. The mine’s owner, Victoria Gold Corp., discovered dead Arctic Grayling and Sculpin on Aug. 2. Officials said...
August 1, 2024
First Nation calls for removal of mining firm from managing Yukon disaster site
Victoria Gold’s Eagle gold mine site north of Mayo, Y.T., is shown in this handout aerial photo taken Wednesday, July 3, 2024. Photo: Yukon Government APTN News: The Canadian Press – The Na-Cho Nyak Dun First Nation in Yukon says the company that owns the gold mine where there was a massive ore slide and...
July 23, 2024
Yukon mine inspector directs Victoria Gold to shore up water treatment efforts
The Eagle Gold Mine in Yukon. Photo: Victoria Gold Corp. APTN News: The Canadian Press – A Yukon mine inspector has ordered Victoria Gold to shore up its water treatment efforts, finding the company’s plan to clean up after a disastrous spill of cyanide-laced-rock and water last month at its Eagle Gold mine is insufficient....
July 18, 2024
Yukon government ready to step in after mine disaster, firm’s silence ‘unhelpful’
Victoria Gold’s Eagle gold mine site north of Mayo, Y.T., is shown in this handout aerial photo taken Wednesday, July 3, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO — Yukon Government APTN News: The Canadian Press – Yukon’s deputy mining minister says it’s “unfortunate and frankly unhelpful” that the owners of the Eagle Gold mine have been “silent...
July 17, 2024
‘Every minute matters’: Experts with first-hand accounts at Victoria Gold mine disclose gravity of problems
The worst is yet to come, warn those working with Na-Cho Nyäk Dun CBC Indigenous: Experts working with the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun who have witnessed the fallout at Victoria Gold’s Eagle mine near Mayo, Yukon, say systems on-site are so severely compromised that damage to the land and water is all but inevitable....
July 4, 2024
Yukon minister says cyanide found in creek after ‘serious and significant slide’ at Eagle Gold Mine
APTN News: Yukon government has confirmed traces of cyanide have been detected at the Eagle Gold mine site near the community of Mayo, though its findings seemly go against an announcement from the mine’s owners earlier in the day that no cyanide had been found. According to Yukon’s mining minister, elevated levels of cyanide have...
July 3, 2024
First Nation in Yukon calls for halt to mining in territory
June landslide on its territory put unknown amount of cyanide into the environment. APTN News: The Canadian Press – The First Nation of the Na-Cho Nyäk Dun says it wants an “immediate halt” of all mining activity in Yukon and is calling for an “urgent Independent Investigation and Review of the region’s most recent and...
June 28, 2024
Yukon First Nations blast gov’t, industry after ‘catastrophic’ slide at Eagle mine | CBC News Loaded
‘We’re concerned of the health of the land, the water, the fish and the animals,’ says Na-Cho Nyäk Dun chief CBC News: Some Yukon First Nations are blasting the territorial government and the mining industry, in the wake of this week’s major ore slide at the Eagle gold mine near Mayo, Yukon. Chief Dawna Hope of...
June 6, 2024
Yukon board agrees to hold hearing on contaminated mine site
Public hearing for mining remediation dispute to be held this fall APTN News: The Yukon Water Board plans to hold a public hearing later this fall regarding a First Nation’s claims that remediation work at a former contaminated mine is making things worse – though both parties hope to reach a solution before then. The...
May 2, 2024
The true cost of critical minerals
By Emilie Cameron, Rosemary Collard & Jessica Dempsey | Opinion | Canada’s National Observer: OPINION – Canada is positioning itself as a global destination for critical mineral extraction. Are we willing to destroy caribou herds and trample on Indigenous rights to do it? Barnabas Davoti/Pexels Listen to article The 2024 federal budget bolsters Canada’s ambitions to be a global supplier of critical minerals....
July 11, 2023
Yukon First Nation unhappy with cleanup of abandoned mine
The area has been a source of devastating contamination for decades. APTN News: A First Nation in Yukon is raising serious concern about the remediation work being conducted at an abandoned mine site and its asking the Yukon Water Board to intervene. The Mount Nansen mine lies on the traditional territory of the Little Salmon/Carmacks First...