Mottos are usually just a string of catchy words created to inspire people to do their best. Lord Baden-Powell told and trained the Boy Scouts to "Be Prepared," Nike says "Just Do It," Ford insists "Quality is Job One," and even…

The 1864 gold rush in the south eastern corner of B.C. brought prospectors and other fortune hunters by the thousands to the Wildhorse Creek.

Raymond Mercer and three other Inuit from Nunavut's Kivalliq region are among hundreds of aboriginals training to be the vanguard of a new labour force for mining and exploration across northern Canada.

For the most part, Canada's mining tax system is internationally competitive. There are tax incentives in place to encourage multinational mining companies to establish a presence here. Such incentives help spur exploration and ease the burden...

The first gold mines in Quebec were discovered in the Malartic gold camp in the mid 1920s, all motivated by the then-recent discovery of the famous Horne Mine (in nearby Rouyn-Noranda), the foundation asset in another great Canadian mining...

Even from a plane at cruising altitude, they stand out. Piles of rock in straight rows, with wide, level tops and straight sides, often with little or no vegetation, protrude from the surrounding landscape - clearly, a mine waste dump.…

MONTREAL - Canada's first graduating class of 95 mine workers with nationally recognized skills were honoured at the CIM on May 24, 2011. The Canadian Mining Credentials Program (CMCP) was developed by the Mining Industry Human Resources...

MONTREAL - On the occasion of its 140th anniversary, the McGill Mining Engineering Program is taking pride in its legacy of excellence and launching a major revitalization strategy to meet industry's requirements of the future.

ONTARIO - Fans of large tunnel boring machines will be pleased to know that Big Becky has bored a 10.2-km tunnel below the city of Niagara Falls. Breakthrough occurred on Friday, May 13, 2011. With a cutter head of 14.4…

The words "mineral resources" might well be spelled "commodity prices". The mining industry understands that the higher the prices the more material falls within the definition of resources, meaning it has the potential to be economically...

Eighty-five hundred and fifty kilometers isn't exactly what you'd call "close," but that's how far Walter Energy Western Coal (formerly Western Coal Corp) has been shipping high-grade metallurgical coal from its mines in northeast British...

As a child growing up in the Cape Breton coal-mining community of Glace Bay, John Morgan attended Warden United Church and, to this day, he remembers the stained glass windows and the coal miners depicted alongside the usual religious imagery.