The German Technology Day showcased how industrial technology leaders are responding to the realities of heavy industries. For mining in particular, the […]
Global demand for critical minerals is accelerating, with the International Energy Agency (IEA) projecting a sixfold increase in global demand for critical […]
The Sudbury Basin has been very, very good to Inco. In the last 98 years, the company has pulled 750 million tonnes of ore out of the ground, containing 9.8 million tonnes of nickel and 9.0 million to...
The Mining Association of Canada (MAC) has released the 1999 Environmental Progress Report, its fifth annual such report. A new feature this year is a reporting on the Canadian mining industry's recyc...
It was Friday afternoon, and I just couldn't finish the draft of my article on Inco (pages 10-21 of this issue) by the end of the day, my self-imposed deadline. I thought, "I'll have to come into the ...
One of the world's major crusher manufacturers, Svedala Industri AB, is introducing a 'cassette' system for carrying out crusher maintenance. The unit to be worked on is simply lifted out and replaced...
Canadian Mining GamesThe University of Toronto was the venue for the Canadian Mining Games, which took place at the beginning of the Mining Millennium 2000 meeting. Taking part in this event were 144 ...
Gil Labarre, mill expansion project manager for Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd. (HBM&S), was named Mineral Processor of the Year at the Canadian Mineral Processors (CMP) annual meeting last J...
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...
Nothing but rocks and sand grow in the hilly Atacama desert in northern Chile. Here the climate is dry, dry, dry. That is not so for the fertile minds of Rio Algom where ideas have blossomed into a wo...
Beginning late in the 1800s and continuing into the early years of this century, small copper, gold and alum (kalinite) mines sprang up in the rugged rocky desert of northwestern Argentina. But it too...
The activities of Canadian explorationists and miners carry them all over the world, working with people from other cultures. Although they are very familiar with the technical tools they need to do t...
We at CMJ are often asked the question, "Is anything like the Mining Sourcebook available for countries other than Canada?" To our knowledge, the short answer is still "no", but there is a new volume ...
Svedala has been awarded the contract to develop and install the advanced expert control system on the 13 regrind lines at Iron Ore Co. of Canada's concentrator in Labrador City, Nfld. The system is b...
