Sentences with phrase «by the mining companies which»

But there is no inquiry into the continued impact of colonial exploitation as by the mining companies which are giant transnationals coming from the beginning of the 20th century.

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Blocked from buying Potash Corp. by Canadian government decree in 2010, the company has instead sunk billions into developing its own Saskatchewan site at the Jansen Mine, which, if fully operational, could become the largest potash - producing site in the world.
Emeco Holdings has diversified its business outside the mining sector by purchasing truck and trailer rental company Rentco, which was founded in 1994 by Perth brothers Bob and John Shier, in a structured deal worth at least $ 52 million.
The federal government's recent decision to block the takeover of Potash Corp. by Australian mining company BHP Billiton has sparked much debate about which types of Canadian industries should be protected from foreign buyers.
There were also bank statements, reserve estimates by an independent American geologist and historical records of dividends paid out to shareholders — which would have been improbable if, as the letter writer claimed, the company's mine in China was losing money.
Gold companies include mining companies that exploit gold deposits that are supported by by - products and co-products such as copper, silver, lead and zinc, and also have diversified mining companies which produce a meaningful amount of gold.
By: Kimberley Smuts 22nd July 2016 Australian - listed speciality chemicals development company Alexium International has made significant inroads into the resins, films and polymers industry, owing to its newly commercialised environment - friendly flame - retardant (FR) treatment Alexiflam, which is well suited to the mining industry... →
We also have Bitcoin cash which was an initiative by I believe by you know at least backed by a bit made the largest bitcoin mining company which was basically an altcoin.
By: Simone Liedtke 3rd May 2018 The Legal Resources Centre (LRC), Abrahams Kiewitz and Richard Spoor Attorneys, on behalf of thousands of mineworkers, on Thursday reached a class action settlement with the Occupational Lung Disease (OLD) Working Group, which represents various South African gold mining companies.
Case in point: Comstock Mining Inc., a young mining company which we own in our Gold and Precious Metals Fund (USERX), has managed to shrink operating expenses from $ 4.4 million this time last year to $ 3.8 million, mostly by lowering legal and advisory expMining Inc., a young mining company which we own in our Gold and Precious Metals Fund (USERX), has managed to shrink operating expenses from $ 4.4 million this time last year to $ 3.8 million, mostly by lowering legal and advisory expmining company which we own in our Gold and Precious Metals Fund (USERX), has managed to shrink operating expenses from $ 4.4 million this time last year to $ 3.8 million, mostly by lowering legal and advisory expenses.
According to Keith Neumeyer, chairman of the First Mining Gold company, the main problem is that the governments print too much money that is not secured by gold — a tendency which he said is unlikely to change in the near future.
The claim was filed in a Dutch court by Mr. J.W. de Vries on 2 February 2018 against Koinz Trading BV, a non-public company, which was previously ordered by a lower court of Midden - Nederland to pay mining proceeds in the amount of 0.591 BTC owed to the petitioner, or a penalty payment up to a $ 10,000 maximum.
Currently, Hut 8 Mining is focused on ASIC chips which are used to mine Bitcoin, however, the company plans to roll out 20 megawatts of GPU chips by the end of 2018 to mine other «alt - coins».
Three other companies that O'Dea co-founded, led and sold were Fronteer Gold, picked up by Newmont Mining NYSE: NEM in 2011; Aurora Energy, sold to Paladin Energy TSX: PDN in 2011; and True North Nickel, in which Royal Nickel TSX: RNX bought a majority interest in 2014.
A month later, the company reported that it had hired two Canadian banks to find blockchain - connected deals, which was followed by a notice of an agreement to acquire Backbone Hosting Solutions, which operates a cryptocurrency mining server farm in Canada under the trade name Bitfarms.
XRP is not a mined digital asset so every single unit of the currency that exists now has already been created, with most owned by Ripple (55 billion of which was placed in escrow) and the rest held by companies and individuals.
However, Ghana is a member of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), which requires countries with a heavy dependence on oil, gas, and mining industries to accurately report taxes, royalties, and fees paid by extractive companies.
The foreign exchange Retention Agreement of 2006, Act 723 which was passed by the then government legalized capital flight and repatriation of mining proceeds by multinational mining companies in Ghana.
The Romanian Parliament, also dominated by USL, is currently debating the modification of the 2003 Mining Law and considering amendments which would facilitate important erosion of citizens» rights, particularly by allowing foreign companies to expropriate the lands and houses of Romanian citizens on behalf of the Romanian government.
«There is a proposal on the table which we made to the Kufuor administration that instead of seeking public investment to be led by the state and its attendant procurement problems why won't you allow that whole cartage to be owned by different business groups so that you do a road show and allow mining companies and people who cart heavier goods to understand that they own a part of that whole railway sector because we've been at it for too long.»
In the forest near Barra, mineral rights are held by the mining company CVRD, which could decide at any moment to raze the trees and strip the reddish earth.
The company would hope to be able to ship by rail its mined graphite directly to Teslas Gigafactory being built in Nevada [United States] which will produce 35GWh of batteries annually by 2020.
The mine is operated by TIMCAL Graphite & Carbon which is a subsidiary of Imerys S.A., a French multinational company.
First, the Canadian small - cap market is dominated by energy and mining companies, which tend to be highly volatile.
Unlike other cryptocurrencies, Ripple isn't available for mining, the process by which data is authenticated for a fee by individual users or companies.
If you're a high - income earner who doesn't mind rolling the dice in search of some tax - assisted investing, you may want to consider investing in flow - through shares, which are issued by some oil, gas and mining companies.
The Canadian small - cap market has relatively few names and is dominated by energy and mining companies, which can be highly speculative.
Given the lack of diversification in the Canadian market — which is dominated by banks, energy and mining companies — international equities should be part of any long - term portfolio.
Here's an excerpt making his prime point, followed by more from Schendler on a climate - friendly energy deal he just helped broker between his employer, which runs four of the region's marquee * ski resorts, and a coal mine owner whose company is a member of a group promoting the myth that global warming is a «great delusion.»
For example, Mr. Long, the mining association official, said he was perplexed by those companies that want to reduce carbon dioxide, which his group and its allies do not see as a pollutant or a threat to the environment.
On February 23, 2010 it was announced that Pioneer Fuels» Horse Creek Surface Mine, which is owned by parent company Foundation Coal, spilled into the Clear Fork River in West Virginia.
The company practices mountaintop removal mining, which is controversial because it reduces the height of mountains (sometimes by 600 to 800 feet), removes all vegetation and places mining waste or overburden into mountain streams, causing flooding, erosion, and water contamination.
Our company was founded in 1988 by Mr. Robert E. Murray, our Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, who mortgaged everything he owned to the purchase a single continuous mining operation, The Ohio Valley Coal Company's Powhatan No. 6 Mine, which at the time had an annual output of approximately 1.2 million tons per year and was being company was founded in 1988 by Mr. Robert E. Murray, our Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, who mortgaged everything he owned to the purchase a single continuous mining operation, The Ohio Valley Coal Company's Powhatan No. 6 Mine, which at the time had an annual output of approximately 1.2 million tons per year and was being Company's Powhatan No. 6 Mine, which at the time had an annual output of approximately 1.2 million tons per year and was being closed.
Murray, 77, founder of the largest privately held coal mining company in the U.S., told Monday's Guardian he is confident the president will follow through on promises to scrap the clean power plan, former President Barack Obama's signature climate change plan, which was designed to cut carbon emissions from the power sector by 32 percent by 2030.
FTI Technology's IG&CS team, which includes professionals with experience deploying Office 365 within Fortune 1000 companies, addresses key corporate data challenges with safety and defensibility by mining, storing, migrating and disposing of corporate data.
The Silicon Valley company, which says it has so far been inhibited from expanding its services due to a lack of content, delivers a software - as - a-service platform that helps lawyers predict the behaviours and outcomes of different legal strategies by mining, tagging and categorising millions of Federal court dockets and documents.
Bill C - 300 was not passed (by 6 votes), which was touted as a «win» by some mining companies and their counsel.
A look at the conclusion of a case in which four parties had attempted to seize assets from Kyrgyzaltyn JSC, a gold mining company owned by the state of Kyrgyzstan, to satisfy the parties» arbitral...
ASW Law Limited acted as Bermuda legal counsel to Osisko Gold Royalties TSX: OR)(NYSE: OR)(«Osisko») in Osisko's acquisition of 74 royalties, streams and precious metal offtakes from Orion Mine Finance Group («Orion») for total consideration of C$ 1.125 billion, which acquisition involved the transfer of several Bermuda exempted companies held by Orion to Osisko.
Some 470 - odd mines are operated by the company in 21 major coal - fields across eight states which include 163 open case mines, 273 underground mines and 34 mixed mines.
The chief executive is currently managing the fallout from the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, which saw as many as 50 million Facebook users» profiles accessed by the Trump - connected data mining firm in violation of the company's terms of service.
They said the firm sees Mr. Luckey's venture in the mold of Palantir Technologies, a data - mining company co-founded by Mr. Thiel, which serves a wide range of clients, including intelligence agencies.
Some of those techniques were ostensibly shaped by their time at Cambridge Analytica's parent company, SCL Group, where they, along with Wylie, pioneered practices that would form the basis of the data mining outfit, which is currently under fire.
The company revealed last fall that it was devoting tens of millions of dollars to its mining venture, with the aim of building a site for pursuing the energy - intensive process by which new transactions are added to a blockchain and new coins are minted as a reward.
Riot Blockchain Inc. a Castle Rock, Colorado based publicly traded company today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire cryptocurrency mining equipment consisting of 700 AntMiner S9s and 500 AntMiner L3s, which are manufactured by China's Bitmain Technologies.
Finally, Monero is resistant to ASIC mining, so it's not as easily mined by professional mining companies, which keeps it decentralized.
The research involved looking at the following factors: global wallet downloads to show interest by region, exchange volumes in different currencies, where the most mining has been done, which companies are adopting Bitcoin and other interactions between Bitcoin and the real world.
A London - based data mining and analytics firm Cambridge Analytica was responsible for acquiring the data which was then used by a company working for Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
MBC is a mined coin, which the company claimed occurred by «leaving the wallet open» to earn more MBC.
It was probably caused by the competition between bitcoin mining companies, which Guy Corem, CEO of the mining company Spondoolies - Tech, compared to an arms race.
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