MANITOBA – Owner Vale Canada has put the Birchtree underground nickel-copper mine at Thompson on care and maintenance. The first C-and-M shift […]

ONTARIO – After a temporary closure of four months, the crushing area at the Clarabelle nickel concentrator at Sudbury is to be […]

NORTH BAY, Ont. – Cementation Canada has registered ‘Nortech-Cementation Canada Labrador LP’, a limited partnership between Nortech Holdings of Happy Valley Goose […]

MANITOBA – Vale Canada, the Toronto-based arm of mining behemoth Vale SA, has announced the closure of its small Birchtree nickel mine […]

ONTARIO – Brazilian miner Vale said late last week that it will put the Stobie nickel-copper mine near Sudbury on care and […]

Newfoundland and Labrador is one of the foremost producers of iron and nickel in Canada, ranking second in production of both metals […]

Vale Canada Ltd.'s $2.8-billion nickel processing facility at Long Harbour in Newfoundland will be a showcase for the mining giant's newly developed hydrometallurgy refining technology when the plant is completed in early 2013.

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…