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PDAC’s E3 Plus Leads The World

I f you want the world to beat a path to your door, forget about inventing a better mousetrap. Instead, develop a program that will encourage the mining industry, local communities and nongovernmental...

Keeping Tabs On Tools

Nothing can shut down a conveyor system, a dragline shovel or other multi-million dollar pieces of mining equipment faster than a little 19 mm socket. One socket, left behind under a belt, near gears ...

Handling Fuel With Care

The recent upheaval in the financial markets has added a number of new pressures on mine owners and managers; not the least of which involves managing cash flow and operating costs while also holding ...

Gold Medal Performance

Nothing, including the global recession, could keep the price of gold from maintaining a strong showing in 2009. According to the PricewaterhouseCoopers 2009 Global Gold Price Survey Report of 58 lead...

Pits Before People? It’s Your Call

When you fly across Canada or even the United States for that matter, most of the land you see below is by and large wasteland.

Veteran Joins CMJ Team

CMJ Editor Russ Noble is pleased to announce the appointment of Brill Braden to the position of Northern Correspondent for the magazine.

It’s Time To Get More Women-On-Board

Although women moved into the workforce in great numbers in the 1980s, they still have to catch up to men in terms of leadership positions in corporate America. The New York human resources firm Catal...

Yukon Silver Shines Again

Historically the Yukon is most famous for the Klondike gold rush, but it was also the site of another major mineral discovery in 1918 that touched off its own stampede. This was the mighty silver depo...

Prospects Keep Drive Alive

The airstrip at Western Copper's Casino property in the Dawson Range mountains says a lot about the company's aggressive and no-turning-back way of doing business because the runway, like the site its...