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For Barrick, gold mi ning means business

If you're talking about gold mining, it's hard to ignore Barrick Gold Corp. It has become the highest valued, lowest cost large gold miner in the world, with a better credit rating and a more general ...

Grade Is King Again

Gold mines that can provide good returns in any environment--even a hostile one in which prices hover at 20-year lows--are few and far between. The new Bulyanhulu operation in Tanzania's Lake Victoria...

Holt-McDermott and Bousquet

Holt-McDermott in transitionThe major structural breaks in the Abitibi region of northeast Ontario and northwest Quebec are littered with gold and copper mines, often plunging to great depths and prod...

South America

South America is a zone of primary importance for Barrick Gold. The company's regional interests are situated in the Andean zones of Peru, Chile and Argentina, where one of their most significant mine...

E-Commerce News (June 01, 2001)

MinE-com 2001 proceedings on the netThree hundred people attended CAMESE's MinE-com 2001 Conferences on E-commerce in the Mining Industry, held in Toronto and Vancouver in April. Industry-leading buye...

News (June 01, 2001)

High-voltage Electrical Cleaning ServiceAn electrical company in Timmins, Ont., has a unique method for cleaning on-line electrical systems. Highvec Canada Inc. specializes in cleaning electrical powe...

Mine Development News (June 01, 2001)

Major contract awarded at Snap lakeDe Beers Canada Mining Inc. has selected AMEC Simons Mining and Metals as its alliance partner to perform the optimization study, engineering, procurement and constr...

Meet Randall Oliphant, President and CEO of Barrick Gold

It's been two years since, at the age of 39, Randall Oliphant took over as president and CEO at Barrick Gold. He was stepping into jobs filled in the past by a pair of corporate heavyweights--the late...

Heap reclamation wins award

Anyone who is energized by the sagebrush desert of northeastern Nevada enjoys the drive to Goldstrike. Put Elko behind you; zip past the ranches; make a quick stop for coffee in Carlin; enjoy the snow...

Golden opportunity for exploration

The Carlin Trend has been studied intently by geologists for over 50 years, but it is not yet fully understood. It is arguably the most important gold-bearing formation in the United States.Northeast ...

Underground Mining School

The Lake Victoria gold district has sizable resources and excellent potential for new discoveries, but skilled miners with underground experience are rarer than hen's teeth. If analysts had reservatio...