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Nice neighbours to have

G ood neighbours are a real asset, and my family is blessed with great ones. In the same way, towns and cities look on local businesses as their neighbours, and some businesses make better neighbours ...

Oyster Night in Toronto

In mid-November, 2007, Sandvik Mining and Construction held the 83rd Annual Oyster Night at Toronto's Le Meridian King Edward Hotel. Over 200 people representing various facets of the industry attende...

Redstone and Shakespeare developments making headway

N ickel is one of the most important, highest value commodities mined in Ontario. This article highlights a few nickel-copper deposits currently in development--the Redstone and McWatters mines near T...

Wawa area back in gold business

C ast your mind back to the late 1980s and the Toronto-based Amax subsidiary, Canamax Resources. The flow-throughshare enthusiast vowed to build five gold mines in five years. Kremzar was the fourth, ...

Attracting the attention of tomorrow’s employees

M ining is big business, with a long and profitable history in Ontario.However, what is needed right now is a solid recruitment program to attract young men and women into the industry. The Ontario Mi...

Tailings plans that manage future risks

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...

Using RFID to track ore and save costs at Stobie mine

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. ...

People (January 01, 2008)

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...

Rock Creek nears completion

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 ...

A very unique mine

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.

Adding value to your business

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...