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 […]
A small Port Perry, Ont., investment company is having a big impact in East Africa. Besides providing direct mining employment and tax revenues, the company has been able to improve the local agricult...
Pyritic waste rock piles generate acid rock drainage, which damages the environment and gives headaches to mining companies. Different methods such as subaqueous deposition and perpetual treatment of...
Don Lindsay is a very likeable guy--soft-spoken and boyishly fit-looking. A mid-April interview in Vancouver revealed that Lindsay combines a thoroughly analytical mind with a keen interest in people....
Iveco Motors of North America, Inc., of Carol Stream, Ill., has formed a partnership with Sudbury, Ont.-based Industrial Fabrication to power its innovative Minecat 100 multi-purpose mining vehicle. T...
Although it is one of Barrick Gold Corp.'s smaller development projects, the Cowal gold mine is important to the company's production base in Australia. The project is located in cent...
The first of Barrick's new developments to go commercial in 2005 was the Tulawaka open pit mine, which poured gold on March 15 of this year....
We start our careers with excitement, with great dreams, a bit of worry, and often, debt. We work very hard at our first jobs, earning early promotions and higher-than-normal pay increases--and releas...
The hard work of a very dedicated team and US$340 million dollars are reshaping the Alto Chicama region with Peru's newest gold mine. Barrick's Lagunas Norte mine is coming into produ...
Everyone at the Veladero project is working flat-out preparing the mine and plant for production in the fourth quarter of this year. It helps to know that something good will come of the effort: there...
Project director Ron Kettles needs more than one word to sum up the Pascua-Lama project. "It's a world-class deposit at high altitude in a bi-national setting. And the mineralogy is unique."...
When CMJ visited Barrick's new mine developments in Argentina and Peru last February, we saw first-hand how hard the company is working to create truly sustainable development for communities a...
This year Startco will celebrate its 30th anniversary. In 1975, the company developed a unique solid-state starter for conveyors used in potash mining. Since then Startco has introduc...
