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TSX top 100 miners rack up 30% growth in 2010

The top 100 miners listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) last year enjoyed a 30% growth in market capitalization compared to 2009. Mining sector listings on the TSX and TSX Venture hit record levels in 2010 at over $467…

SAFETY: Mining is second safest industry in Ontario

Ontario's mining industry continues to show steady progress in improving its safety performance. According to provisional statistics released recently, Ontario's mining sector's lost time injury rate was 0.5 per 200,000 hours worked in 2010,...

CHROMITE: Cliffs releases Black Thor details for discussion

ONTARIO - Cliffs Natural Resources of Cleveland, OH, in connection with its ongoing discussions with stakeholders, released preliminary project information for potential development of its Black Thor chromite deposit in the McFaulds Lake region...

Going After Deep Gold

The Red Lake Gold Camp has long been synonymous with bonanza grades. For more than 60 years the Campbell mine provided half-ounce head grades, making it the world's richest gold mine. The focus has shifted to deeper deposits at the…

Water Gets Reused not Abused

Despite recent economic challenges, Northern Ontario remains a land of natural riches. Today, the Hemlo area, approximately 350 km east of Thunder Bay, is one of the more active gold mining districts in Ontario, and the Hemlo Property, owned...

Signing of Prairie Creek mine agreement

Canadian Zinc Corp and the Nahanni Butte Dene Band have just signed an Impact Benefit Agreement with respect to the development and operation of the Prairie Creek Mine, located within the traditional territory of the NBDB in the Northwest...

Quick Turnaround

The Sudbury region is known worldwide for its massive mining operations, but rarely is there anything written or said about the "other" high-level technologies that are required to keep the mines in production and profitable.

Looking Down on New Business

KBM Resources Group of Thunder Bay did not start out as a company serving the mining industry but, was in fact created as a firm to provide digital aerial photography and GIS mapping for the forest industry.

Under Control

The uptake of new technologies in underground mining has been historically sluggish.  Indeed, many global suppliers of mining technology that service both open-pit and underground mines have entered into the underground fleet management...

Under a Golden Pond

In June, 2009, David Larche acquired the rights to a former, open-pit gold mine known as the Golden Arrow, located some 65 km east of Timmins, Ontario. The mine produced nearly 280,000 tonnes of low-grade ore before being closed in…

Paved to Gold

Situated at the end of Hwy 652 North, a paved road in the Sunday Lake Area, about 180 km northeast of Cochrane, is the site of the Detour Lake Project, a massive gold undertaking by Detour Gold that has already…

Ontario has Prospects Galore

ntario has been blessed with an abundance of natural resources, including untold mineral potential. For more than a century, word-class mineral discoveries in this province have brought development and prosperity, along with scientific and...