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 […]
Komatsu America Corp. of Vernon Hills, Ill., has introduced the company's first wheel loader equipped with a Tier-3-compliant engine. The 118,385-lb WA600-6, designed for smaller mining applications,...
The application of paste backfill technology for mined stopes has been a major contributor to the development and economic growth of mining industries across the world, and hence to a reduction of the...
Readings in Historical Metallurgy...
Data are the life blood of our work and communications. Whether it is a presentation, a record of operations, a budget or any other collection of coherent information, it is likely to be stored as dat...
Montreal's Birim Goldfields has named Vic King its new president and COO. His previous job was regional exploration manager for Gold Fields in Africa....
Prospectors unafraid of inclement weather know the secret of Labrador's Central Mineral Belt: uranium-bearing rock outcrops in hundreds of places. Thanks to precise exploration techniques, the belt ha...
As the old saying goes, "Time is money." This is very much the case in uranium plays, because of the need to take advantage of the current world price for this metal -- a price that seems destined to...
McClean Lake: Jet boring reaches small pods...
At Cameco Corp.'s Cigar Lake Mine in Saskatchewan, the single-shaft test mine is being expanded into a full production facility. High-grade (19% U3O8) ore will be crushed and ground u...
In the overheated commodities markets, it is easy to overlook uranium. But the uranium price is flying high. From around US$10/lb U3O8 through the 1990s, the price has risen sharply since late 2003 to...
A protective system with the potential to save mining companies millions of dollars a year is triggering a major rethink in mining conveyor maintenance in Australia. The process, developed by Western...
Bucyrus International is celebrating 125 years of building heavy excavating machinery, including the largest earthmovers ever to roam the planet. Throughout that time, Bucyrus has led...
