Much like exploration geologists, university-based historians do much of their field research in the summer months. Limited more by the demands of […]
Credit: Adobe Stock Many asset owners face a choice that looks simple: continue operating aging coal-fired generating stations or begin planning for […]
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.
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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...
When Gottlieb Daimer of Germany designed and built his first motorized truck in 1896, you can bet he never dreamed that someday his concept for moving heavy goods would ever get to where it is today. ...
IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) has been on the radar in Canada for a number of years. Now that it's been confirmed that Canada will adopt IFRS, most Canadian industries are beginni...
H iring and firing are two words, actually three words that describe one of the toughest things about running almost any company.
