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A Canadian publisher has postponed publication of a book about the country's mining industry after receiving a threat of legal action from one of the sector's leading companies.
Vancouver-based Talonbooks was due to publish Imperial Canada Inc.: Legal Haven of Choice for the World's Mining Industries, this spring. However, http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/05/12/barrick-gold-... target="_blank">according to CBC "the publisher and everyone else involved with the book got a threatening letter from Barrick [Gold] lawyers" in February. As a result, they decided to postpone publication.
The news site quoted publisher Karl Siegler describing it as a clear case of "libel chill" by one of Canada's largest mining companies.