Critical minerals have become essential not only for the global energy transition but also for national security and defence. As countries work […]
Aramine continues to advance underground mining equipment designed for narrow-vein operations, with a growing focus on battery electric machinery and automation. The […]
Mineral exploration spending in Qubec saw a remarkable increase in 2004, compared with the previous year, reaching $204 million for exploration and deposit appraisal combined. Gold exploration accoun...
Diarough Canada introduced its new Fire of the North diamonds to the jewellery trade at the Jewellery World Expo, held Aug. 7-9 at the National Trade Centre in Toronto. The stones are...
ToothMetrics is a novel system for monitoring the condition of bucket teeth and adapters in open-pit mining shovels and loaders. Missing teeth that go undetected can wreak havoc with crushers, conveyo...
Impala Platinum Holdings (Implats) of Marshalltown, South Africa, and Dynatec Corp. of Richmond Hill, Ont., have agreed to join forces at Dynatec's Ambatovy nickel laterite project. The feasibility st...
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...
