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Business coalition to fight AIDS

It's early February as I write, and the Mining Indaba is taking place in Cape Town. Miners and explorers from around the world are drawn to the mineral wealth of southern Africa....

Diamond cleaning gets a robotic hand

Diavik Diamond Mines Inc.' of Yellowknife, N.W.T., has a new automated robotic work-cell system at its Product Splitting Facility to handle the initial cleaning of diamonds from its mine, located 300...

Red Lake just hitting its stride

The twin gold mines Red Lake and Campbell in Balmertown, Ontario share a deep, high-grade orebody. The former poor sister of the two--the Red Lake (a.k.a. Arthur White/Dickenson) mine--has come...

“A Practical Guide to Rock Microstructure”

"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...

New life for nickel mine in Timmins

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...

Bridging the communications gap

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...

How mining supports the Ontario economy

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...

De Beers’ NWT diamond cannery takes shape

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...

Hunting Diamonds in a Field of Elephants

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...