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Gekko Systems

They say that necessity is the mother of all invention. Australian miner Sandy Gray found that his gold processing equipment was just not doing the job. Faced with the challenge of increasing profitability at an alluvial gold mine in a…

Made in Canada

Civil contractor IKC Borealis employees Tim Goudie (left) and Peter McKay using a Trimble GPS 5700 to survey at Voisey's Bay port site, with "Old Joe" in the background. The survey will assist heavy equipment operators to determine the amount…

Lucky 777

If Seven is a lucky number, imagine how lucky Triple Seven can be. It was drill hole No.777 that first intersected the orebody that gave Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co., Limited (HBMS) new life in Flin Flon, Man. It…

Canadian emeralds

According to his field notes, it was a rainy afternoon in August 1998 when Bill Wengzynowski, then a geologist exploring for base metals in the Finlayson district of the Yukon Territory, spotted something green. Thinking at first that it might…

Better belting at Brunswick

When it came time to replace a 1,340-ft-long slope conveyor belt at Noranda's Brunswick underground zinc mine, located near Bathurst, N.B., the project team in charge enlisted the expertise of Goodyear Canada's Engineered Products Division...

ITT Flygt launches two new submersible pumps

ITT Flygt has launched two new slim-line models from the hard-working Flygt Bibo range of submersible pumps, designed specially to handle liquid containing high amounts of clay, stone chips, drilling fines or other solids, common in heavy c...

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...