Record crowds and a record-setting exhibition floor marked PDAC 2026, held March 1–4 in Toronto. The annual convention of the Prospectors & […]
The next phase of digital transformation in mining is less about generating new data and more about unlocking the value of existing […]
In Canada's North, Nunavut has been attracting a diversity of exploration activity. Gold, base metals, PGEs and diamonds are all being intersected in drill holes and, as they say, "the mineralization ...
I have been a cheerleader for Canadian diamonds every since I heard about the first mine being developed. My enthusiasm must have rubbed off, because both my mom and my aunt have become interested in ...
For the last 10 years, many organizations including my own have been trying to convince politicians, bureaucrats and regulators that environmentally-sound metal recycling is good. It has been an uphil...
The 2002-03 edition of the Canadian Mines Handbook, published in November 2002, is a complete guide to publicly-traded Canadian mining companies and their worldwide exploration operations. It contains...
Rumbles from the Halls of CongressWith copper prices at all-time lows, Exxon's attempted sale of the Disputada operation in a Caribbean tax haven for US$1.3 billion did not wash well among some of Chi...
Albian Sands joins ranks of oil sands producers$5-billion Athabasca Oil Sands Project prepares to growThe oil sands contain as much as 1.7 trillion barrels of bitumen, not all of which is recoverable....
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 ...
