What a difference a decade makes! Ten years ago, according to many in the Toronto-media and political elite, mining was a sunset industry. Some even thought we should let this supposedly low-tech sector die and allow lesser developed countries...

Earlier this summer, 15 mine rescuers in three teams responded instantly to the call from the 1,000-m level at Vale's Stobie nickel mine in Ontario. They were at the accident scene within 80 minutes but, sadly, not in time to…

Toronto-based Chieftain Metals has chosen Paul Chawrun as its next executive VP corporate development. A mining engineer, he has worked for Suncor, Fording Coal and Dynatec. Most recently Chawrun was director of technical services for Detour...

The Diavik mine rescue team will compete in the 10th Biennial National Regional Mine Rescue Competition in Fernie, BC, thanks to its second-place finish in the recent Workers' Safety and Compensation Commission's competition in Yellowknife.

BioteQ Environmental Technologies of Vancouver has just completed its seventh season of water treatment operations at Xstrata Nickel's Raglan site in the Nunavik Region of northern Quebec.

This article will provide an overview of the key changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, which became effective April 1, 2011. The Temporary Foreign Worker Program has been an important source of labour supply to Canadian companies to...

Copper may end up on some "hot" lists thanks to its popularity with thieves but there's certainly nothing criminal about how Copper Mountain Mining is stealing headlines around the world now that its Copper Mountain Mine has gone into production

Copper Mountain Mining Corp is pleased to announce that the first filtered copper concentrate was recently produced and deposited in the company's concentrate shed at its new Copper Mountain Mine in southern BC. (See story on Page 18). New...

Editor Russ Noble is pleased to announce the apointment of D'Arcy Jenish as Canadian Mining Journal's Eastern Correspondent. D'Arcy, a former Senior Writer at Mclean's magazine, is the author of seven books and a technical writer with a special...

Canadian mining giant Teck Coal has more than 3000 employees, 400 mine haul trucks, shovels, drills and other surface mining machines; all of which are focussed on its 620 million tonnes of reserves at six metallurgical coal mines in...

What a difference a decade makes! Ten years ago, according to many in the Toronto media, mining was a sunset industry and a modern industrial country/province should not be in such a supposedly "low tech" sector. Some even thought we…

(The following has appeared in numerous Northern Ontario newspapers and was submitted by the author.)