Alberta mining companies use advanced DLE technologies for their lithium-in-brine projects The global energy transition has spurred Alberta mining companies to produce […]
Canadian Mining Journal recently described a sector becoming smarter, more connected and more constrained, with AI-assisted exploration and real-time monitoring changing how […]
Impala Platinum Holdings (Implats) of Marshalltown, South Africa, and Dynatec Corp. of Richmond Hill, Ont., have agreed to join forces at Dynatec's Ambatovy nickel laterite project. The feasibility st...
The last few years of the 20th Century were not very kind to the nickel industry. In October and December of 1998 the LME price for nickel dipped to US$1.76 a pound, the lowest level ever, if you fact...
The latest oil sands development to be approved is the Horizon mine and on-site upgrader project 70 km north of Fort McMurray, Alta. Horizon is owned 100% by Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., a Calgary...
Oil has been produced from Canadian oil sands since 1967 with the start-up of Suncor, followed by Syncrude in 1978 and Albian Sands Energy's Muskeg River mine in 2003. But the push to build more oil s...
Although it is one of Barrick Gold Corp.'s smaller development projects, the Cowal gold mine is important to the company's production base in Australia. The project is located in cent...
The first of Barrick's new developments to go commercial in 2005 was the Tulawaka open pit mine, which poured gold on March 15 of this year....
The hard work of a very dedicated team and US$340 million dollars are reshaping the Alto Chicama region with Peru's newest gold mine. Barrick's Lagunas Norte mine is coming into produ...
Everyone at the Veladero project is working flat-out preparing the mine and plant for production in the fourth quarter of this year. It helps to know that something good will come of the effort: there...
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."...
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...
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...
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...
