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 […]
Soon all Atlas Copco Secoroc rock drilling tools delivered will be dressed in yellow--another step in strengthening the visual identity as part of the Atlas Copco Group. The company c...
At the end of March 2006, CMJ editors interviewed the top Teck Cominco executives in their Vancouver offices, in preparation for this special centenary issue. What emerged was a snapshot of a vigor...
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Teck Cominco made its first, bold move into the Athabasca oil sands last September, when it purchased 15% of the Fort Hills Project. This is the first of three to five long-life assets that CEO Don Li...
The big breakthrough for Cominco almost a century ago was discovering how to treat mixed ores of lead, silver and zinc, and recover each metal as a separate refined product. It is therefore not surpri...
At a time when multinational corporations are being traded like hockey cards, it's important to remember that it takes many years to build a substantial company -- one with good assets, a positive cul...
After struggling through several lean years earlier this decade, the Red Dog zinc and lead mine in northwest Alaska is now producing record profits for its operator, Teck Cominco under agreement with...
The mindset at the huge smelting and refining complex at Trail, B.C., has always been about using technical innovation to get even the squeal out of the metallurgical pig to maximize profits. That's e...
The very large, very low grade Highland Valley Copper (HVC) mining complex in south-central British Columbia is not only Canada's largest metal mine, but is also globally significant. In 2004 it produ...
Partners Teck Cominco, Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd. and Sumitomo Corp. celebrated in February the first gold pour at Pogo, an underground, hardrock mine built in a remote, logistically challenging a...
Teck Cominco's connections to coal mining go back a long way. They began with Cominco holding a 41% interest in Fording Coal, which began mining coal at the Fording River Operations in 1971. The compa...
The company whose centenary we are covering in this issue -- Teck Cominco -- is so much like a family, it's scary. Despite a solidly Canadian heritage, its family tree resembles not so much a maple as...
