Canada does not lack mineral potential. What it needs is the ability to convert that potential into productive mines, resilient supply chains […]
Much like exploration geologists, university-based historians do much of their field research in the summer months. Limited more by the demands of […]
The mindset at the huge smelting and refining complex at Trail, B.C., has always been about using technical innovation to get even the squeal out of the metallurgical pig to maximize profits. That's e...
The very large, very low grade Highland Valley Copper (HVC) mining complex in south-central British Columbia is not only Canada's largest metal mine, but is also globally significant. In 2004 it produ...
Partners Teck Cominco, Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd. and Sumitomo Corp. celebrated in February the first gold pour at Pogo, an underground, hardrock mine built in a remote, logistically challenging a...
Teck Cominco's connections to coal mining go back a long way. They began with Cominco holding a 41% interest in Fording Coal, which began mining coal at the Fording River Operations in 1971. The compa...
The company whose centenary we are covering in this issue -- Teck Cominco -- is so much like a family, it's scary. Despite a solidly Canadian heritage, its family tree resembles not so much a maple as...
Canton, Ohio-based Midwest Industrial Supply Inc. manufactures the Wolverine E-Spray(tm) System, an environmentally safe dust and soil erosion-control product designed for military and non-military pu...
Heath & Sherwood of Kirkland Lake, Ont., has announced two new models of linear moving cutter samplers to enhance its mineral processing product line. One of the recent additions is the light duty...
Since 1987, Viking Pump has offered the widest range of mag drive gear pumps. The new Viking Mag Drive 855 Series internal gear pumps offer exceptional reliability through their robust, sealless desi...
Nothing ever stands still, and this is a thousand times truer for information technology than for any other field. And what epitomizes information technology more than the Internet? As soon as you dis...
Buffalo Gold of Vancouver has named Brian McEwen as president and COO. He is a mining geologist with more than 25 years of exploration and production experience....
Canadian Museum of Civilization turns 150...
New Caledonia, a French island territory 1,600 km off the northeast coast of Australia, is home to an estimated 25% of the world's known nickel reserves. With rich laterite and saprolite deposits, it...
