In March, as part of its provincial budget, Saskatchewan introduced changes to the rates at which potash producers can deduct capital expenditures for purposes of computing profit for the potash production tax regime (PPT). The changes were not...

Mining companies in Canada have invested millions of dollars in developing safety management systems to support personal safety, process safety and literally transform workplace culture.

BC’s coal mining industry has always had more heroes than villains over its tumultuous 150-year history.

Commodity price fluctuations, productivity challenges and a lack of access to capital are just a few of the risks increasing the pressure on executive teams in the mining and metals sector. New challenges and new dilemmas need new solutions....

No metal on earth has the same tantalizing effect on mankind as gold. The ‘sweat of the sun,’ as the ancient Incas called it, has the power to quicken the pulse of the prospector or put a gleam in the…

It’s been a long 17 years since the discovery of the NICO gold-cobalt-bismuth-copper deposit by Fortune Minerals Limited of London, ON, but the company has finally received approval to put more than a hammer and drill into the ground at...

The word  "detour " is in Detour Gold Corporation’s name but it certainly wasn’t in its vocabulary when it came to building the Detour Lake Mine, located due south of James Bay, about 180 km northeast of Cochrane, and just…

For the past two decades, the Ontario Mining Association has published several reports on the contribution of the mining industry to the provincial economy and in keeping with this practice, the OMA is once again proud to have been instrumental...

"Migrating" and "Mating" are getting to be two of the more overused excuses for slowing the mining process and I’m getting a little tired of hearing how the caribou won’t be able to find their way home because there’s now…

The Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia (AME BC) welcomed Premier Christy Clark’s announcement at Mineral Exploration Roundup last month in Vancouver that $680 million was spent on mineral exploration in British Columbia...

I have personally found that building wealth for life’s major long-term events is always accompanied by significant uncertainty.  Historically, the powers that are charged to frame those uncertainties have largely produced...

While overall activity in the B.C. mineral exploration and development sector may be down as compared with last year’s record-breaking pace and expenditures of $463 million, there are numerous advanced exploration projects in B.C.,...