North America   North America The Mineral Policy Insitute has a number of partner campaigns in North America with Earthworks, Mines and Communities and Mining Watch Canada. In the United States, cleaning up abandoned hard rock mines and reforming archaic mineral legislation are of major concern. In Canada, Metal Mine Effluent Regulation, Environmental Assessment of Mining and Asbestos Mining Operations are of major concern.    more» Latest Campaign Updates Publications 24 Jun 2008   FIELD NEWS: Indigenous Resistance Against Gold Mining The Mineral Policy Institutes communications officer, Natalie Lowrey, reports on her recent trip to North America with Indigenous leaders opposing the largest gold mining company, Barrick Gold, on their lands.    more» Regions : North America 27 Oct 2005 Canadian Government fails to take action: Human Rights and Environmental abuses go unchecked The Canadian government failed to take action to end human rights and environmental abuses committed by Canadian mining companies abroad. Responding to "Mining in Developing Countries – Corporate Social Responsibility", the government dismissed recommendations to adopt concrete regulatory measures but choose instead to continue voluntary codes of conduct.    more» Campaigns : Policy 13 Oct 2004   Mining Legislation Reform The United States General Mining Law of 1872 is an antiquated statute that allows mining companies to take valuable hardrock minerals including gold, silver, and uranium from public lands without royalty payment to the taxpayer -- unlike other mining industries that extract coal, oil or natural gas. Signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant, the law not only gives away public minerals, but it also offers public land for sale at $5 an acre -- 1872 prices.    more» Campaigns : Policy 13 Oct 2004   Clean Up Hard Rock Mines A Major issue in the United States is that there are over 557,000 abandoned mines which have never been returned to the state of their local environment prior to the mining. Vital waterways are polluted by these abandoned mines, many of which were built for extracting hardrock minerals like gold, silver, copper, uranium and lead. Some of these sites now pose serious threats to the health and safety of communities downstream.    more» >> View all North America Campaign Updates <<

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