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The National
12 hours ago
- Sport
- The National
Best photos of June 20: From mass yoga in India to a bionic arm in China
The Uefa Nations League, introduced last year, has reached its final stage, to be played over five days in northern Portugal. The format of its closing tournament is compact, spread over two semi-finals, with the first, Portugal versus Switzerland in Porto on Wednesday evening, and the second, England against the Netherlands, in Guimaraes, on Thursday. The winners of each semi will then meet at Porto's Dragao stadium on Sunday, with the losing semi-finalists contesting a third-place play-off in Guimaraes earlier that day.
The National
10-06-2025
- Sport
- The National
Best photos of June 10: From Coldstream Guards on a train to BTS completing military service in South Korea
The Uefa Nations League, introduced last year, has reached its final stage, to be played over five days in northern Portugal. The format of its closing tournament is compact, spread over two semi-finals, with the first, Portugal versus Switzerland in Porto on Wednesday evening, and the second, England against the Netherlands, in Guimaraes, on Thursday. The winners of each semi will then meet at Porto's Dragao stadium on Sunday, with the losing semi-finalists contesting a third-place play-off in Guimaraes earlier that day.
Miami Herald
02-06-2025
- Business
- Miami Herald
Cerrado Gold Appoints Ed Guimaraes as Executive Vice President
TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / June 2, 2025 / Cerrado Gold Inc. (TSXV:CERT)(OTCQX:CRDOF)(FRA:BAI0) ("Cerrado" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the appointment of Ed Guimaraes to the position of Executive Vice President, effective June 1, 2025. Mr. Guimaraes has over 30 years of experience in the mining industry, most recently in an executive advisory capacity and through several board directorships. His career spans a broad range of base and precious metals producers, having supported the development, expansion, and ongoing operations of copper, zinc, lead, gold, and silver mines in Canada, Chile, Peru, Mexico and Argentina. Mr. Guimaraes previously acted as the Chief Financial Officer at Sierra Metals between 2014 and 2023, and he was with Aur Resources between 1995 and 2007, ultimately serving as Executive Vice-President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer, until its acquisition by Teck Resources in 2007 for US$4.1 billion. Prior to 1995, he worked in the Toronto mining group of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Mr. Guimaraes is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA), a graduate of the ICD-Rotman Directors Education Program (ICD.D) and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Administrative and Commercial Studies from Western University. Mark Brennan, Executive Chairman, commented: "On behalf of the Board and Management, I would like to welcome Ed to the team. We had very strong success working together growing Sierra Metals, and his extensive financial and operational experience supporting development and expansion of projects will add significant benefit to the Company as we continue to grow the Minera Don Nicolas gold mine to its full potential and advance the Lagoa Salgada VMS and Mont Sorcier High Purity Iron Ore Projects." About Cerrado Cerrado Gold is a Toronto-based gold production, development, and exploration company. The Company is the 100% owner of the producing Minera Don Nicolás and Las Calandrias mine in Santa Cruz province, Argentina. In Portugal, the Company holds an 80% interest in the highly prospective Lagoa Salgada VMS project through its position in Redcorp - Empreendimentos Mineiros, Lda. In Canada, Cerrado Gold is developing its 100% owned Mont Sorcier Iron project located outside of Chibougamou, Quebec. In Argentina, Cerrado is maximizing asset value at its Minera Don Nicolas operation through continued operational optimization and is growing production through its operations at the Las Calandrias heap leach project. An extensive campaign of exploration is ongoing to further unlock potential resources in our highly prospective land package in the heart of the Deseado Masiff. In Portugal, Cerrado is focused on the exploration and development of the highly prospective Lagoa Salgada VMS project located on the prolific Iberian Pyrite Belt in Portugal. The Lagoa Salgada project is a high-grade polymetallic project, demonstrating a typical mineralization endowment of zinc, copper, lead, tin, silver, and gold. Extensive exploration upside potential lies both near deposit and at prospective step-out targets across the large 7,209-hectare property concession. Located just 80km from Lisbon and surrounded by exceptional infrastructure, Lagoa Salgada offers a low-cost entry to a significant exploration and development opportunity, already showing its mineable scale and cashflow generation potential. In Canada, Cerrado holds a 100% interest in the Mont Sorcier high purity Iron project, which has the potential to produce a premium iron concentrate over a long mine life at low operating costs and low capital intensity. Furthermore, its high grade and high purity product facilitates the migration of steel producers from blast furnaces to electric arc furnaces, contributing to the decarbonization of the industry and the achievement of sustainable development goals. For more information about Cerrado please visit our website at: Mark BrennanCEO and Chairman Mike McAllisterVice President, Investor RelationsTel: +1-647-805-5662mmcallister@ Disclaimer NEITHER TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE NOR ITS REGULATION SERVICES PROVIDER (AS THAT TERM IS DEFINED IN POLICIES OF THE TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE) ACCEPTS RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ADEQUACY OR ACCURACY OF THIS RELEASE. This press release contains statements that constitute "forward-looking information" (collectively, "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of the applicable Canadian securities legislation. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements and are based on expectations, estimates and projections as at the date of this news release. Any statement that discusses predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions, future events or performance (often but not always using phrases such as "expects", or "does not expect", "is expected", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", "plans", "budget", "scheduled", "forecasts", "estimates", "believes" or "intends" or variations of such words and phrases or stating that certain actions, events or results "may" or "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken to occur or be achieved) are not statements of historical fact and may be forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements contained in this press release include, without limitation, statements regarding the business and operations of Cerrado. SOURCE: Cerrado Gold Inc.
Yahoo
02-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Indigenous land defenders face rising threats amid global push for critical minerals
Miguel Guimaraes, a Shipibo-Konibo leader, has spent his life protesting palm oil plantations and other agribusiness ventures exploiting the Amazon rainforest in his homeland of Peru. Last spring, as he attended a United Nations conference on protecting human rights defenders in Chile, masked men broke into his home, stole his belongings and set the place on fire. Guimarares returned days later to find 'He will not live' spraypainted on the wall. The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, Mary Lawlor, denounced the attack and urged Peru to guarantee Guimarare's protection. Although Guimaraes enjoyed international support, his assailants haven't been identified. Guimaraes is one of 6,400 activists who endured harassment or violence for defending human rights against corporate interests. That's according to a new report from the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre that chronicles attacks and civil violations human rights defenders worldwide have experienced over the past decade. Although Indigenous peoples make up 6 percent of the world population, they accounted for one-fifth of the crimes documented in the report. They also were more likely than others to be killed, particularly in Brazil, the Philippines, and Mexico. Some of these attacks arise from the 'range of ways' governments are restricting civic space and discourse and 'prioritizing economic profit,' said Christen Dobson, an author of the report and co-head of the Civic Freedoms and Human Rights Defenders Programme. 'Over the past 10 years we've seen a consistent, sustained pattern of attacks against people who speak out against business-related human rights, risks, and harms,' he said. People like Guimaraes experience a wide variety of harassment, including judicial intimidation, physical violence, death threats, and killings. Most abuse stems from defenders raising concerns about the social and environmental harm industrial development brings to their communities and land. (More than three-quarters of all cases involve environmental defenders, and 96 percent of the Indigenous people included in the report were advocating for environmental and land issues.) The majority are tied to increased geopolitical tensions, a crackdown on freedom of speech, and the global minerals race, the report found. Most of these attacks are reported by local organizations focused on documenting and collecting Indigenous cases, and the number of crimes against them may be higher. 'The only reason we know about even a slice of the scale of attacks against defenders worldwide is because defenders themselves are sharing that information, often at great risk,' said Dobson. Virtually every industry has a case in the database that the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre maintains. The organization has tracked companies, trade associations, and governments believed to have requested that, or paid to have, law enforcement intervene in peaceful protest activity. In 2023, for example, local authorities in Oaxaca, Mexico attacked and injured members of the Union of Indigenous Communities of the Northern Zone of the Isthmus who were peacefully blocking the Mogoñe Viejo-Vixidu railway which posed a threat to 12 Indigenous communities in the area. The protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline saw the highest number of attacks related to a single project over the last decade, the report found. Around 100,000 in 2016 and 2017 to oppose the pipeline, and were met with a campaign of harassment, intimidation, and arrest. Energy Transfer, the company that led the project, filed a defamation suit accusing Greenpeace of violating trespassing and defamation laws and coordinating the protests. In March, a jury ordered Greenpeace to pay $660 million in damages, a verdict legal experts called 'wildly punitive.' The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre cites that lawsuit as an example of companies using a legal tactic called a strategic lawsuit against public participation, or SLAPP suit, to silence dissent and harass protestors. But Energy Transfer cited that courtroom victory in its response to the nonprofit's report: 'The recent verdict against Greenpeace was also a win for the people of North Dakota who had to live through the daily harassment and disruptions caused by the protestors who were funded and trained by Greenpeace.' Fossil fuel companies were hardly the only offenders, however. Dobson and her team identified several cases involving renewable energy sectors, where projects have been linked to nearly 365 cases of harassment and more than 100 killings of human rights defenders. But mining, including the extraction of 'transition minerals,' leads every sector in attacks on defenders. Forty percent of those killed in such crimes were Indigenous, a reflection of the fact that more than half of all critical minerals lie in or near Indigenous land. The outsized scale of harassment and violence against Indigenous people prompted the UN Special Rapporteur to release a statement last year making clear that, 'A just transition to green energy must support Indigenous Peoples in securing their collective land rights and self-determination over their territories, which play a vital role in biodiversity conservation and climate change adaptation.' Businesses, particularly those in mining and metals, are being pressured to ensure their operations do just that. The Consolidated Mining Standard Initiative, or CSMI, for example, is a voluntary framework to improve industry policies adopted by several trade associations like the Mining Association of Canada. 'The standard addresses a broad range of community risks by requiring mining operations to work with communities to identify and work together to mitigate risks faced by the community,' the association said. 'Such risks include those to human rights defenders, where they exist.' Another member of the initiative, the International Council of Mining and Metals, said it has 'strengthened our member commitments on human rights defenders to explicitly include defenders in companies' due diligence, stakeholder engagement, and security processes. Defenders often work on issues related to land, the environment, and indigenous peoples' rights.' Even as this report highlights the dangers human rights defenders face, a growing need for critical minerals, mounting demand for the infrastructure to support AI, and the dismantling of regulatory oversight in the United States bring new threats. The report also makes clear that these attacks will not decrease until broad agreements to adopt and implement protections for these activists are enacted. Such policies must be accompanied by legislation designating Indigenous stewardship of their land and requiring their involvement in project consultations. Yet Indigenous organizations tend to doubt any industry can be trusted to voluntarily participate in such efforts. In a letter sent to the CSMI, 25 human rights organizations including the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre said mandatory participation will be required to ensure robust protection of human rights defenders and relationships between industry and Indigenous peoples. 'People and the environment suffer when companies are left to self-regulate with weak voluntary standards,' the letter stated. Still, change is coming, however slowly. When Dobson and her team started tracking the harassment and violence against human rights defenders, she wasn't aware of any companies with a policy pledging to not contribute to or assist attacks against defenders. Since then, 'we've tracked 51 companies that have made this policy commitment,' she said. 'Unfortunately that doesn't always mean we see progress in terms of implementation of those policies.' This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Indigenous land defenders face rising threats amid global push for critical minerals on Jun 2, 2025.
Yahoo
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Bruno Guimaraes opens up on what it was like to captain Newcastle United to their first domestic trophy triumph in 70 years
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Bruno Guimaraes celebrates with the Carabao Cup. | Credit: Getty Images Unless you were a Sunderland or Liverpool fan, it would have been hard not to have been moved by the scenes that greeted Newcastle United's Carabao Cup victory earlier this season. Advertisement The Magpies' 2-1 win over Arne Slot's Premier League champions-in-waiting back in March was the first time that the team had got their hands on a piece of domestic silverware since they beat Manchester City 3-1 in the 1955 FA Cup final. An estimated 300,000 Newcastle supporters poured onto the streets for the team's open-top bus parade as one of English football's more notable trophy droughts was ended. Bruno Guimaraes on captaining Newcastle to a major trophy Burno leads the Newcastle United trophy lift at Wembley | Credit: Getty Images Brazilian midfielder Bruno Guimaraes was the player tasked with captaining the Magpies at Wembley and responded by putting in his usual all-action display as goals from Dan Burn and Alexander Isak sealed the trophy. Advertisement So how did it feel to follow in the footsteps of Jimmy Scoular, the Toon skipper way back in 1955 and lead the Magpies to a domestic trophy? Newcastle's previous domestic honour came in 1955 | Credit: Getty Images 'It's tough to find the best words to describe this dream I've been living,' Guimaraes tells FourFourTwo. 'Given Newcastle's history, tradition and passionate fanbase, 70 years without a domestic trophy was such a long time. 'I think the penny will fully drop when I retire. I've been walking on clouds, making the most of this honeymoon with the fans. 'I've felt like that since day one at Newcastle, but to become the first captain in 70 years to lift a [domestic] trophy meant the world to me.' Advertisement 'The parade was mind-blowing: I saw everything from eight-year-old kids to 80-year-olds sobbing, because of what this amazing club gave to them. I saw four people on top of a tree–I was afraid it would come down with them! [Laughs] Guimaraes has a strong bond with the St James' Park faithful | Credit: Getty Images 'We wanted to win that trophy so much. We really pushed ourselves.' Guimaraes - who was ranked at no.12 in FourFourTwo's list of the best Premier League players this season - will be hoping to end the campaign with another celebration, with Newcastle going into the final weekend of the Premier League season knowing that a win over Everton in Sunday afternoon will be enough to secure a Champions League place.
