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 […]
Canada's fourth largest copper and zinc producer, Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co., Limited (HBMS), is energizing its northern Manitoba facilities, extending their future to 2016 and beyond. At a cost...
BRUCE REID / COURTESY OF H.B.M.S.AATS of South Africa provided an innovative shaft steel design. This is the first such installation in North America. The 777 mine project manager Pat Smyth described ...
Mid-April is when many companies hold their Annual General Meetings, and I attend some of the ones of mining companies. This is the opportunity for management to communicate face-to-face with its shar...
Expansion Project at Placer Dome's South Deep MineIn a late-May update, Placer Dome Inc. of Vancouver announced changes to its expansion project at the South Deep gold mine in South Africa. The compan...
After 12 years, Dick Phelps has left Engineering & Mining Journal (E&MJ) as editor-in-chief. He is now a consulting engineer specializing in operations, finance and communications. He can be reached a...
The current LME price of nickel (mid-March 2002) is US$6,650/tonne. This is a rebound since a low of US$4,440 in November 2001, but is nowhere near the peak of US$10,660 in March 2000. Nickel will be ...
More than a century of experience and innovation grace Inco's Sudbury operations, which make up the largest part of Inco's Canadian and UK Operations. The determination and sweat of Canadians througho...
Talk about saving money--$13.5-million worth of energy in the Ontario Operations during 2001. The team that beat its target by $1.5 million did a lot more than talk, but good communications is at the ...
In order to be a price-maker and not a price-taker, a metal company has to produce something unique, with a value above the commodity price of metal. This is the reason that Inco has been involved in ...
Mining in Indonesia can be as much about community development as orebody development. PT International Nickel Indonesia (PT Inco) made that discovery when it began mining laterite ore near Soroako on...
In November 2001 the shaft crew at Inco's Copper Cliff North mine near Sudbury, Ont., had worked 13 years without a disabling injury: a rare accomplishment. To celebrate, a new goal has been set of on...
The J. Roy Gordon Research Laboratory (JRGRL), located in Sheridan Park, Mississauga, some 20 minutes from Inco Limited's corporate office in downtown Toronto, is home to Inco's research and developme...
