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.

The history of coal mining in B.C.'s Elk Valley surprisingly starts with gold because, like most mining activities in the early 1860s in Western Canada, that was the hot commodity of the times.

Three stocks of wheat adorn the Saskatchewan coat of arms, a reminder of the province's'deep connection to its agricultural roots, but it's what's beneath the surface that has become the real stroy of growth in the province.

Potash mining in southeast New Brunswick has been underway for over 30 years and construction began on the Penobsquis mine near Sussex in 1981 and on the nearby Potacan mine in 1983. Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan bought the Penobsquis mine...

A behind-the-scenes look at anything is always fascinating because it's usually a place that is "off limits" or "restricted," but every once in a while an opportunity comes along to take a backstage look, so to speak, at what goes…

Last year Dumas was awarded the 2010 Worker Safety Innovation Award by the Ontario Mine Contractors Safety Association (OMCSA) for the Dumas Crosshead Design.

It's not much of a dip - only $2 million from 2010 - but a new forecast for exploration spending in Canada confirms that mine finders have found friendlier places than the Northwest Territories to spend their exploration budgets.

Predicting mining M&A activity is not an exact science. The landscape can change in an instant with natural disasters, political turmoil and economic shifts. However, there are strong indicators that lead us to believe that mining M&A...

roke and bankrupt almost mean the same thing, but for legal reasons companies rarely admit going broke. In fact, they always seem to go bankrupt because, as we all know, there are loopholes that make it less permanent and far…

The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources has awarded a two-year contract to Superior Helicopters Canada for aviation and emergency services in Northern Ontario. The contract is for three Bell medium helicopters to be based in Wawa, Chapleau...

The College of North Atlantic's Labrador West College has purchased two advanced equipment simulators from Immersive Technologies to support its Mine Technical Training program. Widely used in mines around the world, the simulators recreate the...