Battery powered vehicles at the forefront of innovation
I find the mining industry fascinating, but I have to say, I don’t envy mining CEOs. The pressures on miners right now are enormous. As laid out in the plenary session entitled “Thinking Differently: A Modern Approach to Mining” at…
Sudbury’s mining service sector employs 10,000.
Don’t overlook the demands of responsible mine closure
A tempered celebration of the Top 40.
Mechanically minded is a term that is commonly used to describe someone with an interest in tinkering with mechanical devices. It’s basically an interest in moving parts. But unlike the other minded people in today’s society, namely the closed variety,…
When MINExpo, that indescribably large mining equipment show in Las Vegas, hits my calendar every four years, I get mixed emotions about attending because I’ve been to the city more than 30 times over my career, and quite honestly, I’m…
The last thing I write before the deadline of every issue is my Editorial. Not because I’m saving my words of observation to the very last minute for research purposes, or anything like that; it’s usually because I often find…
Occasionally I find there are too many topics worthy of discussion here because, as you all know, just about everything that happens in the day-to-day business world has an impact on mining. It doesn’t matter if it’s political, financial, or…
Now that we’re heading into what forecasters say will be another dismal year, it’s hard to get excited about the months ahead knowing we’re going to continue hearing more about layoffs, care and maintenance, and worst of all, outright closures…
Thankfully, and I say that on behalf of just about every mining company still in business, 2015 is over, and another dismal year has come to an end. Mind you, the changing of one numeral from a 5 in 2015…