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 […]
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...
As the only primary palladium mine on the continent prepares to go underground, owner North American Palladium Ltd. (NAPL) of Toronto has laid out a simple plan: Rely on tried-and-true technology, optimize head grades in the mill, and keep...
Vancouver-based Canarc Resource Corp. has suffered the ups and downs typical of the junior exploration sector, but it's looking like a winner now.
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They say that necessity is the mother of all invention. Australian miner Sandy Gray found that his gold processing equipment was just not doing the job. Faced with the challenge of increasing profitability at an alluvial gold mine in a…
