It had been almost two years since their employers, junior miner
Solid Gold Resources Corp., received instructions from the Crown to contact the band for consultation over its plans for a 22,000 - hectare patch of unpatented mining claims, and none had occurred.
The changes follow a decision by the Ontario Superior Court in Wahgoshig First Nation v.
Solid Gold Resources Corp. on Sept. 4 to allow an appeal of an interim injunction obtained by Wahgoshig First Nation that ordered Solid Gold to stop all activity for 120 days and consult with the province and the First Nation.
Solid Gold Resources Corp. also filed a $ 100 - million lawsuit in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice last January claiming the province «encouraged and promoted» a conflict with a First Nation, slowing its gold mine project.
Not exact matches
According to a statement by the Secretary to the Kwara State Government, Alhaji Isiaka Sola
Gold, Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed approved the movement of Engineer Idris Garba from the Ministry of Energy to the Ministry of Industry and
Solid Mineral
Resources while Alhaja Fumilayo Isiaka Oniwa moves from Ministry of Industry and
Solid Mineral
Resources to the Ministry of Commerce and Cooperatives.
Maitama, a former Minister of
Solid Minerals in the sixties, said that as a former minister he is aware that Nigeria is endowed with the wealth of
resources outside oil, saying the country has
gold, diamond and other
resources.