Eighty-five hundred and fifty kilometers isn't exactly what you'd call "close," but that's how far Walter Energy Western Coal (formerly Western Coal Corp) has been shipping high-grade metallurgical coal from its mines in northeast British...

Three stocks of wheat adorn the Saskatchewan coat of arms, a reminder of the province's'deep connection to its agricultural roots, but it's what's beneath the surface that has become the real stroy of growth in the province.

Potash mining in southeast New Brunswick has been underway for over 30 years and construction began on the Penobsquis mine near Sussex in 1981 and on the nearby Potacan mine in 1983. Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan bought the Penobsquis mine...

QUEBEC - On April 13, 2011, Osisko Mining Corp. of Montreal announced the first gold pour from its flagship Canadian Malartic mine 25 km west of Val d'Or. The project involved spending roughly $760 million, moving the entire town of…

The Red Lake Gold Camp has long been synonymous with bonanza grades. For more than 60 years the Campbell mine provided half-ounce head grades, making it the world's richest gold mine. The focus has shifted to deeper deposits at the…

Despite recent economic challenges, Northern Ontario remains a land of natural riches. Today, the Hemlo area, approximately 350 km east of Thunder Bay, is one of the more active gold mining districts in Ontario, and the Hemlo Property, owned...

Vancouver-based Teck Resources operates six coal mines in British Columbia and Alberta. The desire to co-ordinate workflow among them and manage inventory efficiently had the coal division looking for enterprise resource planning software that...

silver lining may be a metaphor for optimism in the idiom "Every cloud has a silver lining," but for Alexco Resource Corp., that lining is not found in the sky but conversely, in the mountains of the Keno Hill Silver…

hen you talk about Yukon mining, one of the first names that comes to mind is "Minto," because not only is it the only producing hard-rock mine in the Territory, but it's also one of the more productive copper-mining operations…

othing says success in mining more than the sight of a processing plant and that's exactly what Yukon Zinc now has operating at its Wolverine Mine located 280 km northeast of Whitehorse. The Wolverine Mine is located in the Finlayson…

QUEBEC - Opera singers and base metal miners rarely have the opportunity to rub shoulders, but that is what happened at the Raglan nickel-copper mine in Nunavik. The mine is owned by Xstrata Nickel that also sponsors the Canadian Opera...

SUDBURY, Ontario - Atlas Copco has introduced a new face drilling rig for narrow tunnels and drifts, the Boome...