Record crowds and a record-setting exhibition floor marked PDAC 2026, held March 1–4 in Toronto. The annual convention of the Prospectors & […]
The next phase of digital transformation in mining is less about generating new data and more about unlocking the value of existing […]
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...
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....
