Mining operations strive to be safe, efficient, and productive, but they often allocate up to 50% of their annual budget to equipment […]
NOVAGOLD is entering a pivotal new phase as it advances the Donlin Gold Project toward a construction decision, buoyed by strong 2025 […]
Protection of water quality has become one of the most important environmental challenges facing the mining industry. Although new mining projects can be designed to minimize impacts to the environmen...
Pliable display technology project completedVancouver-based IDELIX Software Inc., makers of the visualization technology known as pliable display technology (PDT), has completed its PDT Web Map Clien...
Aber Diamond Corp. of Toronto has appointed James Pounds as director of diamond sales for Aber Overseas N.V., based in Antwerp, Belgium. Pounds has had an extensive career in the diamond industry in B...
The Porcupine Miners Memorial Committee has put together a project to recognize the contributions of miners and mining companies to the Porcupine Camp of northeast Ontario. The group is raising $250,0...
Canadian listings Increase on London exchangeThere has been a marked increase in interest from resource companies that want a public listing on the London Exchange in the United Kingdom. Twenty-four n...
We often think of Suncor, Syncrude, and now Albian as being the only players in the Athabasca oil sands patch (see pages 10-21 of this issue). Not true. They may be the largest and they may have huge ...
Slang easily crosses geographical, as well as social borders. A phrase that becomes popular in the United States soon crosses the border into Canada. Or vice versa. Thus it is that among miners, in Ca...
Bitumen production at Alberta's first oil sands producer has doubled to 225,000 bbl/day per day since 1999, and will double again over the next decade. The first increase was accomplished during the $...
In a new laboratory in the University of Alberta's computing science department, mouse clicks and streaming video feeds are providing answers that might one day help as much as heavy equipment and har...
Improved tax assistance for Qubec explorationIn mid-August the Qubec government announced a major improvement to the tax credit for resources. Mining corporations will be able to claim a tax credit ...
This issue, subtitled "Mining in Qubec", is a new venture for us. It is a look at Canada's second largest province, by population, by land mass (I am not including territories in this comparison) and...
Automation is one, maybe even the most important, element of driving down production costs. After all, no mine can stay in business if expenses exceed revenues.Now there is a cost-effective, reliable,...
