Figures just released by the Metals Economics Group’s (MEG) Corporate Exploration Strategies (CES) of Halifax, indicate that Canada has been the world’s top country for exploration for the past decade.

Where has Canadian mining money been going for the past 10 years? From statistics compiled by Natural Resources Canada, we know that the overall portfolio has increased by about $100 billion, to around $130 billion in 2010. Destinations have...

Mprovince today, mining is a $10 billion per year business, which employs about 27,000 directly. Canada’s mining industry is poised to make up to $140 billion in new investments in the next five years, much of it in Ontario.

Barrick Gold Corporation’s Hemlo mines are located about a 30-minute drive east of the Town of Marathon on the north shore of Lake Superior 350 km east of Thunder Bay.

Richard Fink, Vice President, Technology, with Cleveland-based Cliffs Natural Resources, is a mining industry veteran who knows that discretion is sometimes the better part of valour when it comes to discussing mineral deposits, and the...

Primary palladium producers are rare undertakings. There are only two in the world. One belongs to Toronto’s North American Palladium. NAP’s Lac des Iles mine lies 85 km northwest of Thunder Bay, Ont., and is the target of expansion...

"Sight Unseen" could easily be Cementation Canada’s motto because most of the work the company does is underground. In fact, for the past 14 years, the vast majority of the engineering and contracting projects the company has undertaken...

Wesdome Gold’s Eagle River gold mine is located 50 km due west of Wawa, and 65 km southeast of the Hemlo property featured in the previous article. It is perched on the Algoma Plateau about 310 m above Lake Superior…

There are only a handful of mines in Ontario with a history as deep and rich as Goldcorp’s Red Lake Gold Mines, located about 350 km northwest of Thunder Bay, near the Ontario/Manitoba border.

Almost every mining company in Ontario is a partner in society. In fact, it would be very difficult to find a mining company anywhere in the province that doesn’t care about the community where it’s located. They do more than…

Is there room for improvement in safety, operational efficiency and standardization in the mining industry?

Thanks to cost-effective, easy-to-use digital systems, safety compliance is now joining other mine operations in the advanced technology revolution.