Much like exploration geologists, university-based historians do much of their field research in the summer months. Limited more by the demands of […]
Credit: Adobe Stock Many asset owners face a choice that looks simple: continue operating aging coal-fired generating stations or begin planning for […]
Latin America has been one of the most popular "destinations" for exploration and mining activities in the world for some time now. According to Metals Economics Group, Latin America currently attracts 25% of the global spending on mining...
Buchans Minerals isn’t operating as a mine at the moment but there’s probably not a site anywhere in the province with more character than the historic Buchans property, located in south western Newfoundland about 200 km by road...
When you talk about a stratgeic location, few sites can match that of the Little Deer copper project co-owned by Thundermin Resources Inc. and Cornerstone Resources Inc. It’s a 100%-owned project under a 50-50 joint venture agreement...
Admitting that you haven’t done something is usually no one else’s fault but your own. In fact, most people have so many things on their "to do" list that even Hollywood made a movie based on the premise that a…
The Britannia Mine Museum of Britannia Beach, B.C. (near Squamish on the Sea-to-Sky Highway, about an hour from Vancouver) has received two prestigious awards for the $14.7-million restoration of the museum’s heritage site.
Figures just released by the Metals Economics Group’s (MEG) Corporate Exploration Strategies (CES) of Halifax, indicate that Canada has been the world’s top country for exploration for the past decade.
Where has Canadian mining money been going for the past 10 years? From statistics compiled by Natural Resources Canada, we know that the overall portfolio has increased by about $100 billion, to around $130 billion in 2010. Destinations have...
Mprovince today, mining is a $10 billion per year business, which employs about 27,000 directly. Canada’s mining industry is poised to make up to $140 billion in new investments in the next five years, much of it in Ontario.
Barrick Gold Corporation’s Hemlo mines are located about a 30-minute drive east of the Town of Marathon on the north shore of Lake Superior 350 km east of Thunder Bay.
Richard Fink, Vice President, Technology, with Cleveland-based Cliffs Natural Resources, is a mining industry veteran who knows that discretion is sometimes the better part of valour when it comes to discussing mineral deposits, and the...
Primary palladium producers are rare undertakings. There are only two in the world. One belongs to Toronto’s North American Palladium. NAP’s Lac des Iles mine lies 85 km northwest of Thunder Bay, Ont., and is the target of expansion...
"Sight Unseen" could easily be Cementation Canada’s motto because most of the work the company does is underground. In fact, for the past 14 years, the vast majority of the engineering and contracting projects the company has undertaken...
