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History

The Springhill bump

On Oct. 23, 1958, a bump at the Springhill coal mines in N.S. caused one of the worst seismic coal mining disasters […]

Mining and the idea of Canada

For me, every January begins with another trip through the key events of Canadian history since 1867, courtesy of a course I […]

Canada’s first mining scandal

Most mining industry insiders remember the Bre-X scandal of 1997 as Canada’s, and possibly the world’s, worst case of stock and mining […]