Mining operations strive to be safe, efficient, and productive, but they often allocate up to 50% of their annual budget to equipment […]
NOVAGOLD is entering a pivotal new phase as it advances the Donlin Gold Project toward a construction decision, buoyed by strong 2025 […]
The Association for Mineral Exploration BC (AME BC) and a number of British Columbia-based exploration industry representatives recently mounted an education and lobbying effort. The aim was to increa...
No one will argue that in the fairly recent past the mineral exploration and development sector in British Columbia went through the economic and political wringer. But, rather like the mythic Phoenix...
British Columbia has seen a resurgence in mining and mineral exploration during 2006. Investor confidence is solidly behind new exploration and mine development, and the province is experiencing a boo...
In April 2006, after noticing an associated risk between lost time accidents and physical fitness, Tom Stuffco, the mill superintendent and Brian Ledgerwood, the mill ops general foreman at the Kemess...
Explosive growth of the mining industry in British Columbia in recent years has lead to a looming employee shortage. Across Canada, estimates are up to 40% of workers in the industry who will be retir...
With the current spate of mergers and acquisitions, mining companies are acquiring portfolios that often include worked out or abandoned properties. Many companies often don't know the extent of the l...
A solution has been found in recent years to combat the lack of trust and co- operation that has commonly existed between mining companies wanting to exploit minerals and the neighbouring Aboriginal c...
Teck Cominco to supply gold, silver, bronze
Although our new technologies offer wonderful opportunities to improve our efficiency, they equally offer chances to fritter away time in ways never before seen. Checking on sports scores, reading new...
Mining is fraught with uncertainty, but with the Sept. 8 launch of McGill University 's COSMO (stochastic mine planning) laboratory, uncertainty will be less of a liability. In fact, it should become ...
Photographs from aircraft and satellites have long had application in the mining business, particularly exploration. However, recent developments in the field of remote sensing can help with all stage...
