When mining executives evaluate debt financing, most of the discussion naturally centres on pricing. What is the interest rate? Are there commitment […]
Canada does not lack mineral potential. What it needs is the ability to convert that potential into productive mines, resilient supply chains […]
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…
Civil contractor IKC Borealis employees Tim Goudie (left) and Peter McKay using a Trimble GPS 5700 to survey at Voisey's Bay port site, with "Old Joe" in the background. The survey will assist heavy equipment operators to determine the amount…
If Seven is a lucky number, imagine how lucky Triple Seven can be. It was drill hole No.777 that first intersected the orebody that gave Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co., Limited (HBMS) new life in Flin Flon, Man. It…
According to his field notes, it was a rainy afternoon in August 1998 when Bill Wengzynowski, then a geologist exploring for base metals in the Finlayson district of the Yukon Territory, spotted something green. Thinking at first that it might…
When it came time to replace a 1,340-ft-long slope conveyor belt at Noranda's Brunswick underground zinc mine, located near Bathurst, N.B., the project team in charge enlisted the expertise of Goodyear Canada's Engineered Products Division...
ITT Flygt has launched two new slim-line models from the hard-working Flygt Bibo range of submersible pumps, designed specially to handle liquid containing high amounts of clay, stone chips, drilling fines or other solids, common in heavy c...
At the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada convention in early March this year, CMJ gave away a large-head golf driver and a watch in a business card draw. An RCMP diamond fraud officer drew the winning card for us…
Not long ago, "corporate citizenship" would have been simply defined as a company's philanthropic activities. Today, however, this is just the starting point.
The headline of a recent article in the Globe and Mail entitled "Land owners are being undermined" caught my eye.
Without supportive action, most philosophical phrases ring hollow. The member companies of the Ontario Mining Association are making sure the concept of "sustainable development" sounds a more constru...
Ontario's mining industry continues to outperform all other Canadian provinces and territories in terms of exploration investment. The province is forecasting $212.6 million, or 31%, of Canada's total...
Despite advances in airborne magnetic and EM surveying, developments in airborne gravity technology were more significant in 2003. Some sounded like science fiction. SQUIDs are evolving into practical...
