
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 […]

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

Seabridge Gold continues to advance a portfolio of large, high-potential gold and gold-copper projects in Canada, including the flagship KSM project in […]
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...
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...
BioteQ Environmental Technologies (TSX-BQE) of Vancouver has been awarded the 2008 China Mining Environmental Protection Award for its design of a $3.6 million water treatment plant in Dexing, China.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...