Cast your mind back a few years, before the mergers and acquisitions left me permanently confused. In those days, there were a few reliable, well-run intermediate-size Canadian gold miners. One that I...

The Abitibi has given rise to many successful mining companies generating much wealth. But finding and developing the ore is getting more and more difficult in the highly sheared, disrupted ground.

The celebrations marking the official reopening of the Kiena underground gold mine on Aug. 18 were particularly sweet for Toronto-based Wesdome Gold Mines , coming as they did after many tough, frugal...

Ninety-five kilometres north of La Sarre in the northern part of the Abitibi belt is the Casa Berardi gold mine, which is slated for reopening later this year by 100% owner Aurizon Mines Ltd . Accordi...

As the old adage goes, the best place to find a mine is in the shadow of a headframe. The odds, then, seem stacked in favour of Alexis Minerals , which is poking around behind 60 such structures in th...

CMJ: The exploration and deposit appraisal spending in 2005 in Qubec stayed about the same as in 2004. Do you expect it to increase or decrease in 2006?

A new diesel engine oil quality, called API CJ-4, will be introduced into North America on October 15. This oil will be the best performing heavy duty diesel engine oil that the industry has produced....

The world's first-field mountable videographic data recorder is now available from ABB . For use anywhere, anyhow and by anyone, the new SM500F is a four-channel recorder that can be installed in even...

Whitehorse, Yukon, was the site of the late-August conference of Canadian energy and mines ministers. The meeting brought together ministers from the provincial, territorial and federal governments. T...

How can mining companies improve their biodiversity performance? The question is answered in considerable detail in a new International Council on Mining & Metals publication, ...

Gold discoveries falling behind...