By Goldcorp's own admission, the Musselwhite mine is not the most visible gold producer. It is a low-grade underground operation in a remote corner of northern Ontario, 430 km north of Thunder Bay. It...

When you teach your teenagers to drive, you expect the car to get a few dents (hopefully nothing worse) as they learn. Likewise, teaching adults to operate heavy equipment can be hazardous to both the...

In early May, New York-based Alcoa Inc. made a hostile bid for Montreal-based Alcan Inc. The deal that Alcoa offered--US$73.25 per Alcan share to be paid in cash and Alcoa shares--has an enterprise va...

Carhartt, Inc.'s workwear is now available in fits and sizes designed especially for women. The new Carhartt for Women line of clothes and accessories was tested in fall 2006 at 150 retailers, and b...

What's hot (and missing) in coal

Looking through Stone: Poems about the Earth by Susan Ioannou

President of Evolving Gold Corp., Lawrence A. Dick, had struggled for years with this conundrum: How does a geologist balance running a public company with finding ore?

Mineral Exploration Roundup 2007 "Leading the World in Exploration" was another exceptional event, with attendance exceeding expectations. The atmosphere in the conference halls of the Westin Bayshore...

Three mines opened in the province last year: the Trend and Wolverine-Perry Creek coal mines and the Table Mountain gold mine. At the end of 2006 there were more than 25 project submissions to governm...

Vancouver-based BioteQ Environmental Technologies Inc. is establishing itself as a leader in the treatment of acid-contaminated water through the use of its patented BioSulphide process and the ChemS...

A new hard rock mine is about to start production in Yukon, the first to open in a decade. Sherwood Copper's Minto copper-gold mine is the talk of the town because it's the most imminent. However, if ...