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 […]
Mining in the past two decades has taken giant steps toward productivity, efficiency and safety. One of the greatest is the automation of many underground mining jobs. It is both safer and more effici...
Over the decades, Canadian Mining Journal has published a number of special issues about Inco, most recently in June 1988. CEO Scott Hand compares the Inco of 1989 to the company today.There have been...
Jerry Rogers called me often in 1999. Inco Ltd.'s director of public affairs kept asking when I was going to come to Sudbury to discover all the new things his company was doing. What could an old com...
Reports of company mergers continued as geophysical survey contractors and instrumentation companies consolidated amid decreased exploration expenditures worldwide. However, in spite of this decline, ...
Nothing gets the heart racing like the prospect of a high-grade gold discovery. And where better to look than in northwestern Ontario, where two such mines are operating. Placer Dome's Campbell mine h...
Cummins Westport Inc.--a joint venture of Cummins Inc., of Columbus, Ind., and Westport Innovations Inc., of Vancouver, B.C.--is joining forces with four other companies in a low-emissions, natural ga...
Mineral exploration in the Yukon did not recover in 2001 and the low levels of exploration spending experienced in 2000 continued, with expenditures estimated to be $7.2 million.ExplorationExploration...
Paper, paper, and more paper! Paper forms are the bane of mining operations everywhere. Used for recording and transporting every kind of data imaginable, they have served as the lifeblood of mining o...
A metallogenic map that has just been released, showing the border regions of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru, will be a valuable guide to explorers. The new map (in Spanish and English), including...
I sing in a choir every Sunday morning, in the choir loft upstairs at the back of our large church. We sometimes think we are nearer to Heaven back there, but more importantly we are closer to the cei...
A ritual that marks the dawn of each year at CMJ is to determine a winner for our readership survey contest. Every person who responds to our readership survey, either by mail or using the "contest" b...
Another year is in the history books and the New Year is upon us offering its own unique mix of opportunities and challenges. As the Ontario mining industry continues building and changing for the fut...
