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Mine Development

High altitude, higher hopes for Pascua-Lama

Project director Ron Kettles needs more than one word to sum up the Pascua-Lama project. "It's a world-class deposit at high altitude in a bi-national setting. And the mineralogy is unique."...

Mining breakthrough in Sudbury

The Sudbury Joint Venture (SJV) is the business to study for any company that wants to be a profitable mineral producer. Partners FNX Mining (75%) and Dynatec...

Shaft-sinking at Nickel Rim South

Building the Nickel Rim South nickel-copper mine is a major development for Noranda-Falconbridge Ltd. in the Sudbury Basin of northeast Ontario. The job commenced in March 2004, when funding was appro...

A tool for all seasons

With over $41.1 billion dollars in revenue each year at stake (according to Natural Resources Canada), Canadian mining companies have a vested interest in the way land is used and how it is left when...

Look who’s all grown up

Anyone who attended the PDAC convention in Toronto in early March is aware that opportunity is not only knocking in this business but trying to break down the door. There was record-high attendance; w...

DRC Resources taking another good look at Afton

Diamond drilling began in late January from the first portion of a new underground decline being developed by Vancouver-based DRC Resources Corp. at the Afton copper-gold project near...

Nickel Rim South on fast-track

Tucked away in the eastern rim of the Sudbury Basin, the Nickel Rim South deposit has hidden its potential for decades. A recent change in its exploration strategy has allowed Falconbridge Ltd...

Red Lake just hitting its stride

The twin gold mines Red Lake and Campbell in Balmertown, Ontario share a deep, high-grade orebody. The former poor sister of the two--the Red Lake (a.k.a. Arthur White/Dickenson) mine--has come...

New life for nickel mine in Timmins

Driving east from downtown Timmins through Schumacher and South Porcupine, one can't help but notice the tailings mounds that have accumulated over the years from gold mining. There is a lot of mining...

De Beers’ NWT diamond cannery takes shape

The recent history of diamond exploration northeast of Yellowknife is bearing fruit, with the Ekati and Diavik mines already in production. Now the Snap Lake project has been permitted for development...

New Coal Producers Call the West Home

Just when we thought western Canada's coal industry was the exclusive domain of huge merged companies, there are not one but two new metallurgical producers in British Columbia. Western Canadi...