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Better returns expected from revised project

New Caledonia, a French island territory 1,600 km off the northeast coast of Australia, is home to an estimated 25% of the world's known nickel reserves. With rich laterite and saprolite deposits, it...

Partner sought for Ambatovy

Another large Canadian nickel laterite project is Ambatovy in eastern Madagascar, off the east coast of southern Africa. The project is owned by Dynatec Corp. of Richmond Hill, Ont., and Sumitomo Corp...

Fighting fire with training

An accidental fire that started just after midnight on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2006, in the world's largest potash mine trapped 72 people underground in a potentially dangerous situation. Within a day and a...

Orders for 28 haul trucks

Liebherr Mining Equipment Co. of Newport News, Va., recently received two large orders for Ultra Class T 282 B AC-drive trucks....

The cost of less cold

As my bones get older, I enjoy a mild winter like 2005-06. Whether the warmer-than-average season is a sign of global warming or not is open to debate. What we can say with certainty is that the more...

Komatsu’s first wheel loader with Tier 3 engine

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,...

Novel lab tool for paste backfill

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...

Data security

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...

People (April 01, 2006)

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....

Canada’s next uranium hot spot

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...