KBM Resources Group of Thunder Bay did not start out as a company serving the mining industry but, was in fact created as a firm to provide digital aerial photography and GIS mapping for the forest industry.

The uptake of new technologies in underground mining has been historically sluggish.  Indeed, many global suppliers of mining technology that service both open-pit and underground mines have entered into the underground fleet management...

Almost every mine encounters some degree of water problems, and controlling or getting rid of them requires far more skill, and equipment, than most people know or understand. After all, most photos of  pits, tunnels or shafts focus...

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Over the past year, the prospects for mining companies have improved with the market's recovery from the global economic crisis. Now, a strong demand for commodities is leading many mining executives to loosen their purse strings to focus on...

The NWT and Nunavut Chamber of Mines have just announced an investment of $485,000 with the Paulatuk Development Corporation to enable them to purchase a movable exploration camp which can be leased to mining exploration companies.

Building and maintaining roads is what Champion Motor Graders have been doing since they were invented in Goderich, ON, in 1885. Since then, the horse-drawn grader has evolved into one of the more productive road building machines in the world...

My return to the Chamber of Mines after 15 years offers me the opportunity to see what has and hasn't changed in northern Canada. If there is one thing that I am more certain of than ever, it is the…

Investing in oil, gas and mining (OGM) projects in developing countries over the next 20 years is likely to be much greater than the total invested in international aid. If this investment is designed and managed to maximize sustainable...

hen famed comedian, actor and author Billy Connolly documented his recent 3,567 km trek across Canada's Far North, he summed up his travels by simply saying "Spectacular."

silver lining may be a metaphor for optimism in the idiom "Every cloud has a silver lining," but for Alexco Resource Corp., that lining is not found in the sky but conversely, in the mountains of the Keno Hill Silver…

hen you talk about Yukon mining, one of the first names that comes to mind is "Minto," because not only is it the only producing hard-rock mine in the Territory, but it's also one of the more productive copper-mining operations…