WASHINGTON (BUSINESS WIRE) The International Cyanide Management Code reached an important milestone this week with its announcement of the 1,000th certification in the program’s history, which began certifying mining, transport, and cyanide production facilities in April 2006. Today, the Cyanide Code is one of the most established and mature certification schemes in…
Stock Symbol: AEM Agnico Eagle Mines Limited today reported quarterly net income of $189.6 million or net income of $0.78 per share, for the second quarter of 2021. This result includes non-cash mark-to-market gains on warrants of $15.9 million foreign currency translation gains on deferred tax liabilities of $9.3 million derivative gains on financial instruments of $1.8 million non-cash foreign currency … (All amounts expressed in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted) Stock Symbol: AEM (NYSE and TSX)
Agnico Eagle Mines Limited (NYSE: AEM) (TSX: AEM) (“Agnico Eagle” or the “Company”) today reported quarterly net income of $189.6 million or net income of $0.78 per share, for the second quarter of 2021. This result includes non-cash mark-to-market gains on warrants of $15.9 million ( $0.07 per share), foreign currency translation gains on deferred tax liabilities of $9.3 million ( $0.04 per share), derivative gains on financial instruments of $1.8 million ( $0
From ‘pushback’ to pushing ahead How the Brumadinho disaster brought miners onboard with tailings reform. January 6, 2021
Right: A fines retention dyke completed in January 2020 at Vale’s Corrego do Feijao iron ore operation in Brazil. Credit: Vale
In 2017, GRID-Arendal, an environmental centre based in Norway and a partner of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), published Mine Tailings Storage: Safety is No Accident. The report called for the development of a global standard covering the construction and operation of tailings dams, a global insurance scheme, and more oversight and transparency around tailings.
While it was written in response to recent tailings failures, including Mount Polley in British Columbia and Samarco in Brazil (which killed 19 people), the mining sector was resistant at the time to many of the recommendations, says Elaine Baker, one of the authors of the report and director of the GRID-Arendal offi