Studies / Contemporary dilemmas

Ten Canadian Mining Companies: Financial Details and Violations

26 March 2019: Operations at Ikwezi Mining’s Newcastle Project. Photograph by Madelene Cronjé

Raw minerals are needed for everyday life, but when that life is also the cost of our infrastructural needs it is time to start asking questions. Why do 60% of the world’s mining companies have their headquarters in Canada? In this briefing we provide the financial details of ten Canadian mining companies. This data becomes a corporate crime rap sheet when it is read alongside concise accounts of the most horrendous violations committed–globally–by these companies. Canadian wealth is deeply dependent on a depraved indifference to human life, an indifference seemingly shared by Canadian mining companies.

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