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A radioactive quiz? A nuclear generating station is rated to produce 1,000 megawatts of electricity. How much nuclear fuel does it consume in one year? Here are the guidelines.

“As good as gold” still holds true

Despite current market conditions, the Pricewaterhouse- Coopers Global Gold Price Survey says: "While other commodities and the economy have trended down, gold has held its value and is serving its pu...

Taking the steps to turn the tables

After several years of headlong expansion, big oil and mining companies are pulling up abruptly. Soaring commodity prices, which during the past year have broken records in markets from crude oil to c...

Think hard before cutting back on people

With the current market turmoil and credit crisis, job one for many mining companies today is cutting back on spending and I doubt I'll surprise anybody by saying that investing in people is usually o...

A World Of Challenges

As already stated, the recent decline in commodity prices reflects a marked deceleration in global growth, heightened by hedge fund disinvestment -- in many cases forced by fund redemptions, the withd...

Keeping pace with reality

There is no doubt that the current downturn in prices has come upon us more suddenly than those of years past. Also, when coupled with the world credit crunch and all the talk of global recession, gov...

What a gem!

Challenges abound at the Victor diamond project. That, and the people drew general manager Peter Mah to the wilds of Northern Ontario in November 2007. He told CMJ during a brief December 2008 intervi...

Where the Waste Went

It's been more than 80 years since minerals were first discovered at Prairie Creek in the Northwest Territories and over that period of time, many miners have come and gone in their quest for riches f...

Payload

When Gottlieb Daimer of Germany designed and built his first motorized truck in 1896, you can bet he never dreamed that someday his concept for moving heavy goods would ever get to where it is today. ...