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 […]
In the film Dead Poets' Society, Robin Williams plays a gifted and dedicated teacher determined to help his students appreciate the age-old adage carpe diem or, 'seize the day'. This phrase captures a...
In its first decade, Virginia Gold Mines Inc. has become known as a very active Quebec explorer, particularly on virgin ground. The company has had considerable success, discovering significant gold and base metal deposits and partnering with seve...
One of the busiest exploration camps in Quebec is the Ungava (Cape Smith) mafic/ultramafic belt in the Far North, where an estimated $25 million is being spent this year on exploration. Falconbridge Ltd. has already proven this to be good…
The Casa Berardi gold mine is showing all the signs of heading back into production. The results of a revised feasibility study are expected in the last quarter of this year, but 100%-owner Aurizon Mines Ltd. is so confident that…
DRC Resources has named Chris Bradbrook as president, CEO and director. His 25-year career has covered many aspects of the mineral industry from exploration and development to investor relations and marketing. Most recently he was VP of cor...
Using leading-edge information technology, the Qubec government has been operating a fully-functional electronic land management system since October 2001. The GESTIM (Gestion des titres minirs) system has already achieved what most Inter...
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Canadian companies have been playing a leading role in developing mining projects in Russia and other former Soviet republics. Although Russia's large, relatively unexploited gold resources have come...
Take a large part of the Soviet-built aluminum industry and its workers, package them as a mega-company managed by really young, educated, post-Soviet-era executives, and launch it in the free-wheeling Russian economy of the new millenium. Let's s...
The recently-appointed president of the Toronto-based Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada, Peter Dimmell, is breaking new ground, as the first president of the 72-year old association to live outside Ontario. Dimmell is a St. Joh...
My job allows for amazing experiences, such as a press tour of the aluminum plants of Russian Aluminium (Rusal) in southern Siberia in early June (see "Siberian Giant", p.18). Despite the Ukrainian surname (acquired from my husband George), I had...
From the time humans first smelled a roasting lump of iron sulphide, we have known that taking metals from rock gives off unpleasant waste. To protect the environment and our health, regulators have set ever-shrinking limits on how much toxic…
What's a Canadian oil and gas company doing reclaiming hundreds of acres around a gold and silver mine in Washington state? That's what Lin Callow of ConocoPhillips asked himself 10 years ago. His answer came when he was recently presented...
