Canada does not lack mineral potential. What it needs is the ability to convert that potential into productive mines, resilient supply chains […]
Much like exploration geologists, university-based historians do much of their field research in the summer months. Limited more by the demands of […]
It's early February as I write, and the Mining Indaba is taking place in Cape Town. Miners and explorers from around the world are drawn to the mineral wealth of southern Africa....
Diavik Diamond Mines Inc.' of Yellowknife, N.W.T., has a new automated robotic work-cell system at its Product Splitting Facility to handle the initial cleaning of diamonds from its mine, located 300...
The twin gold mines Red Lake and Campbell in Balmertown, Ontario share a deep, high-grade orebody. The former poor sister of the two--the Red Lake (a.k.a. Arthur White/Dickenson) mine--has come...
BPR-Bechtel has acquired the Timmins, Ont., assets of AMEC. The transaction follows on the heels of mining giant Noranda-Falconbridge transferring it...
Dressta North America of Buffalo Grove, Ill., has rolled out the TD-40C tier II crawler dozer, a heavy-duty machine that builds on the legacy of the TD-40C while meeting new, lower U....
"A Practical Guide to Rock Microstructure" is a recent release from Cambridge University Press. The author Ron H. Vernon is an emeritus professor of Geology at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australi...
Driving east from downtown Timmins through Schumacher and South Porcupine, one can't help but notice the tailings mounds that have accumulated over the years from gold mining. There is a lot of mining...
To educate and inform stakeholders of the importance that the Ontario mining industry places on environmental protection, the OMA presented its latest environmental progress report, Towards Greener Fo...
Mining is big business in Ontario. In 2003, the value of non-fuel minerals produced in the province was over $5.5 billion. Mining provided high-paying jobs for 16,500 people who earned nearly $1 billi...
The recent history of diamond exploration northeast of Yellowknife is bearing fruit, with the Ekati and Diavik mines already in production. Now the Snap Lake project has been permitted for development...
Geologists often refer to exploration for large deposits as looking for elephants. Large deposits should be easier to find, they should have a long mine life because of their tonnage and they should b...
Diamond fields in Canada are typically characterized by two factors, which require the application of unconventional mining methods....
