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CMJ Prize at PDAC Meeting

At the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada convention in early March this year, CMJ gave away a large-head golf driver and a watch in a business card draw. An RCMP diamond fraud officer drew the winning card for us…

How should we solve land disputes?

The headline of a recent article in the Globe and Mail entitled "Land owners are being undermined" caught my eye.

Mining in Ontario: OMA’s Framework For the Future

Without supportive action, most philosophical phrases ring hollow. The member companies of the Ontario Mining Association are making sure the concept of "sustainable development" sounds a more constru...

Review of Mining in Ontario, 2003

Ontario's mining industry continues to outperform all other Canadian provinces and territories in terms of exploration investment. The province is forecasting $212.6 million, or 31%, of Canada's total...

Exploration Trends & Developments in 2003

Despite advances in airborne magnetic and EM surveying, developments in airborne gravity technology were more significant in 2003. Some sounded like science fiction. SQUIDs are evolving into practical...

Equipment and Suppliers News (January 01, 2004)

Contract to equip Voisey's Bay concentratorOrillia, Ont.-based Dorr-Oliver Eimco has been awarded contracts to supply Inco's Voisey's Bay nickel project with more than $5.1 million of equipment. The m...

A Turn for the Better in Ontario

The Northern Development and Mines portfolio has been a revolving door for ministers in the last half decade, but this year it's more than a new face: it's a new party and platform. Sudbury native Ric...

Caring for an ailing workforce

It is difficult to accurately determine infection rates, but models show that about 30% of the sub-Saharan general population is infected with HIV or AIDS, with likely a much higher rate among working...

Put more tails in less space and save money

There's a proven technology that will be a boon for the mines dealing with large volumes of tailings.Explosive compaction (EC) is a densification technology that is predominantly used by the geotechni...

Reader Rebuttal (December 01, 2003)

Interest in Canada's mining schoolsThe answer to your query ["Why are young people not staying in mining engineering after graduation?"] is obvious to us in this industry. Initially young men and wome...

Power-full Software

Electricity surges across the Northwest (Ontario) Power Grid's 44-kV, three-phase, 60-Hz power lines before feeding 11 megawatts of energy to the transformers south of the mill building and main switc...