Forrest and the "Rinse and Repeat"
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Aug 29, 2021 09:29AM
NI 43-101 Update (September 2012): 11.1 Mt @ 1.68% Ni, 0.87% Cu, 0.89 gpt Pt and 3.09 gpt Pd and 0.18 gpt Au (Proven & Probable Reserves) / 8.9 Mt @ 1.10% Ni, 1.14% Cu, 1.16 gpt Pt and 3.49 gpt Pd and 0.30 gpt Au (Inferred Resource)
Hey...If it worked in Australia why not do the same thing in Canada...Eh. Matawa watch out... Make sure you read the fine print if you plan to make a deal with these Australians...Especially with Dr. Forrest and Wyloo...The Indigenous people of the Pilbara region of Australia found out the hard way years ago according to this article below. That with Dr. Forrest and his Fortescue (FMG) Indigenous consent is not always needed when it comes to mining on native lands. Nor is a fair and equitable business agreement expected between FMG...or in this case Wyloo...and the Indigenous people whose lands he is mining from.
The First Nations of Matawa should be the Kings and Queens of the Ring of Fire, and profit generously along with the rest of the Canadian people who stand behind them...A resource such as the Ring of Fire has the potential to produce generational security for Matawa, and many who live on their lands throughout Ontario. Fight for what is yours and don't become like the Aboriginal people of the Pilbara region have become...." Another shrimp on the Barbie "
Article from The Australian:
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/soul-of-the-land-didnt-live-to-see-mining-giants-destructive-nature/news-story/5c5889a494167dc8facd71268bcf1088
.....Ned Cheedy’s sadness about the impact of mining on the Pilbara would have been magnified many times over had he been alive one year later. In May 2013, FMG did something so brazen that few businesses in this country would ever consider it, let alone a major corporation listed on the ASX. FMG officially began mining Ned Cheedy’s country, even though it had no agreement in place with the Yindjibarndi people to do so.
Cheedy was a member of YAC, which had been appointed by the Federal Court to represent the Yindjibarndi’s native title interests, and YAC had refused to accept FMG’s settlement offer because it was far inferior to the industry standard. FMG decided that, after obtaining state and federal government approvals, it would go ahead and mine Yindjibarndi country despite YAC’s opposition. On May 6, 2013, FMG opened a mine it called Firetail to produce high-grade, low-cost iron ore. Firetail is wholly within YAC’s native title claim but it is part of a much bigger network of mines called the Solomon Hub, which has produced around 70 million tonnes of iron ore a year since 2013, and averaged around $US5bn in revenue (about $7.5bn in 2020-21). About half of the entire Solomon complex is within Yindjibarndi country. Solomon produces around 40 per cent of FMG’s total production, which means one-fifth of the value of FMG, and the wealth of Andrew Forrest, has been generated by mining Yindjibarndi land without proper Aboriginal consent.....
TM.