Canadian Zinc Corp and the Nahanni Butte Dene Band have just signed an Impact Benefit Agreement with respect to the development and operation of the Prairie Creek Mine, located within the traditional territory of the NBDB in the Northwest...

Despite recent economic challenges, Northern Ontario remains a land of natural riches. Today, the Hemlo area, approximately 350 km east of Thunder Bay, is one of the more active gold mining districts in Ontario, and the Hemlo Property, owned...

The Sudbury region is known worldwide for its massive mining operations, but rarely is there anything written or said about the "other" high-level technologies that are required to keep the mines in production and profitable.

ntario has been blessed with an abundance of natural resources, including untold mineral potential. For more than a century, word-class mineral discoveries in this province have brought development and prosperity, along with scientific and...

Mining and exploration companies are now paying increasing attention to individual investors. With the constrained credit markets of the last two years, increasing focus is placed on investors who are buying new equity issues. Projects,...

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...