Pacific Crest Transformers has designed and built a liquid-filled distribution transformer for a wide variety of applications including rectifier feeds, step-up duty, motor-starting duty, variable frequency drive applications, generator field...

Google Earth has proven to be a popular tool for displaying geological data. Unfortunately, plotting this data can be cumbersome and limited if data is manually typed into Google Earth or KML (Keyhole Markup Language) input files. The RockWorks...

The world's growing hunger for raw materials has created a global commodities boom in which foreign investors and mining interests have landed on Canada's doorstep in quest of a secure supply of base metals. This impressive increase in activity...

Mines and smelters are some of the most challenging work environments in Canada, and mining companies have striven to ensure they are also some of the safest. In their efforts to continuously improve on-site safety, they have also looked to...

NFOSAT COMMUNICATIONS LP is a full service provider of satellite communications solutions. Infosat designs, integrates, and commissions satellite telecommunications systems. Infosat's clients include prominent resource companies, network...

Now that the federal election is over and the campaign promises slowly fade away, it's now our time to start a campaign of our own to remind the elected officials why we put them in power to run, not ruin,…

The Mining Industry Human Resources Council (MiHR) recently announced that 95 people have just received national certification through its Canadian Mining Credentials Program (CMCP).

Heavy equipment manufacturer Komatsu has just renewed its technical and licensing agreement for a second five-year period with Immersive Technologies, the world's largest supplier of surface and underground mining equipment simulators.

The mining industry is facing a perfect storm of skills shortages - mining engineers and geologists - at a time of severe budget constraints that can only diminish mineral sector post-secondary education.

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 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...

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.