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 Practical Guide to Rock Microstructure" is a recent release from Cambridge University Press. The author Ron H. Vernon is an emeritus professor of Geology at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australi...
Driving east from downtown Timmins through Schumacher and South Porcupine, one can't help but notice the tailings mounds that have accumulated over the years from gold mining. There is a lot of mining...
To educate and inform stakeholders of the importance that the Ontario mining industry places on environmental protection, the OMA presented its latest environmental progress report, Towards Greener Fo...
Mining is big business in Ontario. In 2003, the value of non-fuel minerals produced in the province was over $5.5 billion. Mining provided high-paying jobs for 16,500 people who earned nearly $1 billi...
The recent history of diamond exploration northeast of Yellowknife is bearing fruit, with the Ekati and Diavik mines already in production. Now the Snap Lake project has been permitted for development...
Geologists often refer to exploration for large deposits as looking for elephants. Large deposits should be easier to find, they should have a long mine life because of their tonnage and they should b...
Diamond fields in Canada are typically characterized by two factors, which require the application of unconventional mining methods....
Just when we thought western Canada's coal industry was the exclusive domain of huge merged companies, there are not one but two new metallurgical producers in British Columbia. Western Canadi...
For all the talk of 'hydrogen highways' linking suburban Ontario and the future Olympic infrastructure in the Vancouver area, the mining sector has come relatively late to the game in adopting the fue...
Widespread industry recognition for having the most innovative product in the market has helped Varis--Smart Underground Communications build a global business for its communications products, and ear...
At the end of this year, 61-year-old Patrick Reid will complete a 20-year career as president of the Ontario Mining Association, to be succeeded by Chris Hodgson, formerly a member of provincial parli...
ITT Flygt, inventor and manufacturer of submersible pumps and mixers, is celebrating 50 years of service to the Canadian municipal, mining, construction and industrial sectors in 2005...
