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New Afton Looking Positive

Vancouver-based New Gold Inc. announced in early April the results of a feasibility study conducted on its 100%-owned New Afton copper-gold project, 10 km west of Kamloops in south-central British Col...

Stars Align for Mount Milligan

Today's much improved commodity market means many deposits that languished during the 1990s are being examined again. One of these is Mt. Milligan, in north-central British Columbia 155 km northwest o...

Yukon Back to Mining

The clich about the Yukon is of prospectors scouring the territory to make their fortune, but in fact there have been no mines operating in the territory since Viceroy Resources' shut down the Brewer...

Building Beneficial Relationships for All Sides

A most important group of stakeholders is the local community. The way mining companies manage their relationship with society is a critical factor in the success of their activities. Companies have c...

Computer System for Monitoring Conveyor Belt Joints

Companies that use belt conveyors in their transport systems aim to achieve highly productive and reliable systems, while concurrently ensuring efficient transport of material over large distances. Du...

The Global Picture

What has brought us to the world we now live in? In 2000, political pundits were predicting terrorist strikes, a destabilized Middle East and messy political situations around the world over the next ...

Biggest advance in scaling in 40 years

Breaker Technology, Inc. (BTI) has introduced the QS45 Vibratory Pick Scaler. According to BTI president Frank Cargould, "Our QS45 vibratory pick scaler ... will double the production of the standard ...

Growing for black gold

Canada's oil sands are the world's largest single petroleum resource, nearly 1.7 trillion barrels. Most of this country's recoverable reserves (175 billion out of 180 billion bbl) are found in the Ath...

New ways to exploit oil sands

It takes a very rich prize to attract serious research dollars, but the bitumen (oil sands) resources of northern Alberta (and Saskatchewan) are just that. According to 2004 figures from the Alberta E...

Gannicott shines on international diamond stage

Instead of simply making diamonds his best friends, Bob Gannicott has forged a marriage of convenience between rough diamond production and the diamond retail business. As the chairman and CEO of Aber...