A couple of engineers got together and decided to have a dam kid. They knew what they were getting into, and they […]
Record crowds and a record-setting exhibition floor marked PDAC 2026, held March 1–4 in Toronto. The annual convention of the Prospectors & […]
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...
Late April and early May is the time of year when most companies publicly prove their accountability to their shareholders. Annual reports are distributed and shareholders (as well as media) are invit...
Exploration Spending Nearing Bottom of CycleAccording to Metals Economics Group (MEG)'s recent edition of Corporate Exploration Strategies, total spending allocated for worldwide nonferrous exploratio...
Insights and clues to unravelling these mysteries were at the top of the list during the 33rd Annual Canadian Mineral Processors Meeting last January in Ottawa. Twelve of the 42 papers on the program ...
The US$414-million (capital) Red Dog mine opened in 1989 with the likelihood of having the world's best zinc deposit. There were nagging questions, however, particularly surrounding the zinc market, t...
Alaska's Northwest Arctic Borough is sparsely populated, with 7,000 residents ("shareholders") living in 11 villages, the largest of which is Kotzebue, with a population of 3,700. The main industry in...
The VIP team set a very ambitious goal: to complete the design, procurement and transportation to the site of all the major parts of the project before the shipping season ended in 2000. They would ga...
There's a patriotic truism abroad these days: Canadians are the world's foremost mine finders. Is this really true?In fact, the system that developed field geologists in this country in the past has b...
Another Big Development ProjectI was quite disappointed when I looked at the centre page (Feb/ March 2001 issue) where appears, "The biggest mineral development projects in Canada." Our [Niocan niobiu...
The Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) is Canada's national agency for geoscientific information and research. It has supplied Canadian Mining Journal with unbiased reportage about the trends and devel...
Environmental compliance and employee safety are the goals for today's modern, progressive worldwide mining operation. Regulatory agencies are enforcing current laws as well as passing new laws to rem...
If $272 billion dollars doesn't interest you, stop reading now. But if it does, consider that Forrester Research of Cambridge, Mass., estimates $272 billion to be the total of online business trade in...
