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 […]
The likelihood of not finding something between the Kiena headframe and the Wesdome headframe is akin to the likelihood of driving across Montreal without hitting a red light!" boasts Wesdome Gold Min...
Diamonds may be a girl's best friend, but they are also proving to be the best friend of exploration company Ashton Mining of Canada Ltd. and its 50/50 joint venture partner SOQUEM Inc. The Foxtrot pr...
Mineral exploration spending in Qubec saw a remarkable increase in 2004, compared with the previous year, reaching $204 million for exploration and deposit appraisal combined. Gold exploration accoun...
Diarough Canada introduced its new Fire of the North diamonds to the jewellery trade at the Jewellery World Expo, held Aug. 7-9 at the National Trade Centre in Toronto. The stones are...
ToothMetrics is a novel system for monitoring the condition of bucket teeth and adapters in open-pit mining shovels and loaders. Missing teeth that go undetected can wreak havoc with crushers, conveyo...
Impala Platinum Holdings (Implats) of Marshalltown, South Africa, and Dynatec Corp. of Richmond Hill, Ont., have agreed to join forces at Dynatec's Ambatovy nickel laterite project. The feasibility st...
Toronto's Falconbridge Ltd. reports that it has completed the modifications on a former copper roaster at the Altonorte copper smelter near Antofagasta, and has started producing molybdenum trioxide....
Rodney N. Thomas, P.Geol., has been appointed CEO of Toronto-based Diadem Resources Ltd. in additional to being president of the company. Paul A. Carroll continues as...
The last few years of the 20th Century were not very kind to the nickel industry. In October and December of 1998 the LME price for nickel dipped to US$1.76 a pound, the lowest level ever, if you fact...
The latest oil sands development to be approved is the Horizon mine and on-site upgrader project 70 km north of Fort McMurray, Alta. Horizon is owned 100% by Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., a Calgary...
Oil has been produced from Canadian oil sands since 1967 with the start-up of Suncor, followed by Syncrude in 1978 and Albian Sands Energy's Muskeg River mine in 2003. But the push to build more oil s...
Once again, as it has for most of the past decade, Noranda Inc. is Canada's largest mining company. We rate companies by revenue, and Noranda earned a whopping $9.08 billion in 2004. But next year Nor...
