Mining operations strive to be safe, efficient, and productive, but they often allocate up to 50% of their annual budget to equipment […]
NOVAGOLD is entering a pivotal new phase as it advances the Donlin Gold Project toward a construction decision, buoyed by strong 2025 […]
Sometimes it seems that the environmental and social expectations placed on the global mining sector are changing at the blinding speed of a slap shot. Yet even as Gretzky went on to become "The Great...
N ow that you are comfortable with a barcode scanner recording the correct prices at your grocery store, a related technology is already in use, monitoring ore being mined and sent to the mill plant. ...
Vancouver-based ABACUS MINING & EXPLORATION has named Thomas A.McKeever the chairman of the company.He takes up the challenge of developing the company's Afton copper-gold project near Kamloops, B...
Contractors working for Vancouver-based NovaGold Resources Inc. are pressing hard to complete construction of the company's first gold mine, the Rock Creek facility 11 km north of Nome--an historical ...
It's been a long time coming, but De Beers Canada is completing the commissioning of its Snap Lake diamond mine, 220 km northeast of Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories.
Some days ago I found an interesting discussion of "diversity", the idea that variety is a central feature of the world that we share with other species. Diversity is both natural and enriching: it pr...
Barrick Gold Corp. announced the "Unlock the Value" program on September 19 to some fanfare. The Toronto-headquartered company is offering a US$10-million prize to anyone who can figure out how to rec...
Caterpillar Inc. and Rio Tinto plc recently reached a three-year agreement for the Cat CAES and Aquila Drill and Dragline systems to be the preferred standard at the mining company's open pit operati...
A note of thanks
The only decoration in the general manager's office at the Langlois mine is a black and white photo of a suited man. The zinc mine and mill, 213 km northeast of Val d'Or in northwest Quebec, was named...
The nickel potential of northern Quebec's Ungava Peninsula is largely untested, despite the success of Xstrata Nickel's Raglan mine. That situation is about to change, however, as Canadian Royalties a...
