Commodity
Industrial/Specialty Minerals

Toughing It Out

The year was 1639. To the average European, most of North America was terra incognita-lands unexplored and unknown-but French colonists living near present day Saint John, N.B. had already found coal deposits and sent the continent's first...

Agrium

Agrium is the only publicly traded company that is integrated from the mining of raw materials for fertilizer production to selling to farmers. The company also supplies materials that a variety of industries use to produce goods such as...

Finding Frac Sand

By 2020, the Horn River and Montney Basins in northeastern British Columbia are projected to be producing just under six billion cubic feet of natural gas a day and meeting somewhere between a quarter and a third of Canada's demand.