Surface mining has rarely been simple, but today’s operators are navigating a convergence of pressures that are fundamentally reshaping performance. Above inflation […]
Mining companies are starting to rethink drilling and blasting. Instead of treating them as isolated tasks at the front end of mining, […]
Chinese investors are known for focussing on positive results, and that's exactly what they did when they bought Yukon Zinc in 2008 and, together with the existing team, turned the Greenfield base metal Wolverine project from advanced...
The year was 1639. To the average European, most of North America was terra incognita-lands unexplored and unknown-but French colonists living near present day Saint John, N.B. had already found coal deposits and sent the continent's first...
What a year of two different halves. The first half of 2011 was the busiest half year of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the mining sector's history, but the summer saw the flurried pace of activity virtually grind to a…
When the development team for Mosaic's K3 potash project near Esterhazy, Saskatchewan was in the early phases of project planning, it's possible that they took the mantra "Go big or go home" seriously.
Liable after death.
The Britannia Mine Museum, (located on the Sea-to-Sky Highway near Squamish, B.C.) together with the Outdoor Recreation Council of BC, and the Squamish River Watershed Society, recently hosted a BC Rivers Day Celebration.
Diavik Diamond Mines Inc., operator of the Diavik Diamond Mine, NWT, is pleased to announce that its mine rescue team recently won the overall underground competition at the 10th National Western Regional Mine Rescue Competition held every two...
"Finally!" John Kearney puts an extra emphasis on that word, summing up the daunting array of hurdles and roadblocks that Canadian Zinc Corporation has traversed in almost 20 years of work on the Prairie Creek base metal/silver deposit.
Thanks to Golden Band Resources of Saskatoon, wheat isn't the only thing giving off a "golden glow" in Saskatchewan these days. In fact, wheat pales by comparison to the shine coming from Golden Band's new gold deposits located approximately...
Snow Lake will soon be living up to its name as another Manitoba winter sets in, but regardless of the weather, it won't slow things down for HudBay Minerals as it pushes on to get its $704-million Lalor project to…
This past summer was one of the busier that Labrador West has seen since the early construction days in the 60s.
The rich deposits of potash that lie under the Saskatchewan prairie help provide fertilizer that boosts crop yields, yet the potential for subsidence of the underground workings is cause for concern; both for the mines themselves and for the...
