The Great Place to Work Institute of Canada's Top 75 "Best Places to Work" list always contains a wide variety of companies but rarely has a "diamond drilling company" made the list.

Vale Inco's nickel mine in Sudbury rarely gets good "environmental" press coverage but after CMJ Editor Russ Noble's recent visit to the site, he felt it only fair to show some of the effort the compa...

Diavik Diamond Mines Inc., operator of the Diavik Diamond Mine in Canada's Northwest Territories, recently completed its 2009 winter road resupply via a seasonal ice road leading to its site almost 30...

What's this guy thinking?

China's sharp slowdown of late will catch many by surprise and wrong-footed. Indeed, over the next few months a painful adjustment will continue to unfold, requiring good information, solid planning s...

It was an easy prediction to make: that the recession would end talk of corporate social responsibility. Faced with the fear, or reality, of losing their markets, companies would concentrate on saving...

Agrium Inc. of Calgary is one of the larger mining, retailing and wholesalers of nutrients used for agricultural purposes around the world. The company operates through three distinct business units -...

When it comes to location, few mining operations anywhere in Canada can match that of Goldcorp's proposed Hollinger gold mine project near Timmins, Ontario. In fact, the word "near" is incorrect becau...

As every miner knows, holding ponds do more than simply hold waste materials from entering into and contaminating the environment. In fact, they also contain an untapable fortune in suspended minerals...

Staff Report

Drilling and Blasting are probably two of the more attention-grabbing words used in all of mining. After "Exploration and Development," nothing else describes what's happening more clearly than the co...

In contrast to the exuberance that characterized 2007, the late months of 2008 was a dismal period for junior mining.