DOING SOME DIGGING – Land claims resemble mud-slinging
Discussion and compromise are recognized qualities of the Canadian psyche. But when it comes to settling land claim...
Canadian Mining Journal Staff
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MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS – Glencairn, Buffalo Gold, Minco, Northwestern
Toronto's GLENCAIRN GOLD has named Peter Tagliamonte its new president and CEO. He replaces Kerry Knoll who becomes...
LIMS UPDATE – Thermo re-engineers its SampleManager
PHILADELPHIA - THERMO ELECTRON CORP. has re-engineered its SampleManager laboratory information management system (...
HEALTH & SAFETY – One dead at shaft sinking project
ONTARIO - On May 25 an employee of DYNATEC CORP. was killed at the Podolsky shaft sinking project northeast of Sudb...
NOXIOUS ODOUR – Syncrude shuts down new coker
ALBERTA - Almost as soon as SYNCRUDE started up its Stage 3 expansion north of Fort McMurray, it was forced to shut...
ENVIRONMENTAL SPILL – Miramar charged for 2004 incident
NUNAVUT - ENVIRONMENT CANADA has charged MIRAMAR MINING of Vancouver and four related companies with allegedly spil...
NICKEL PRODUCTION – PT Inco cuts 1M lb/week after fire
INDONESIA - A transformer room fire at its No.2 furnace has forced PT INTERNATIONAL NICKEL INDONESIA to cut nickel ...
MERGER MANIA – Small companies join forces
In all the clamour and stick-waving that accompanies the Inco-Falconbridge, Teck Cominco-Inco and Xstrata-Falconbri...
GEOTECHNICAL APPLICATION – SGS rolls out QMine
LAKEFIELD, Ontario - SGS MINERALS SERVICES has successfully initiated its QMine application that allows SGS client...
GRAPHIC TERMINAL – New Magelis model from Schneider
TORONTO - SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC now offers a new Telemecanique Magelis XBT GT graphic terminal for mining, conveying,...
COPPER-GOLD EXPLORATION Deeper drilling yields 1.70% Cu, 1.47 g/t Au at New Afton
BRITISH COLUMBIA In February 2006, NEW GOLD INC. of Vancouver raised over $75 million for exploration and a feasi...
GOLD EXPLORATION Young-Davidson grades are promising
ONTARIO NORTHGATE MINERALS CORP. of Vancouver continues to intersect good gold grades at its Young-Davidson prope...
JV Article: How FM defuses one of mining’s most overlooked risks
As one of the world’s largest commercial and industrial property insurers, FM offers a market specialty in safeguarding large mining businesses by bringing core […]