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Toxicity: Why the details matter

“Arctic warming is turning Alaska’s rivers red with toxic runoff.” New York Times, December 16, 2025. Headlines like the one above illustrate […]

Image & Communications

Perhaps more than ever before, a company's image and its ability to communicate with investors are key ingredients to survival but sadly, far too many mining companies are missing the boat when it com...

Names in the news (January 01, 2009)

The Canadian Mining Hall of Fame has just added four new members. This year's inductees are Bernard Michel, (Born 1938), Roman Shklanka, (Born 1932), Grenville Thomas, (Born 1941) and Donald Gorman.(B...

Question…

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...