Spirits were high in March 2015 when the Ontario government announced at the PDAC it was moving forward with an all-weather road […]

ONTARIO – Yesterday Jan. 24, Vale announced that it will decommission the iconic Superstack at its Copper Cliff smelter in Sudbury in […]

ONTARIO – Gowest Gold of Toronto has signed a non-binding letter of intent with Northern Sun Mining Corp. (also Toronto based) that […]

OTTAWA –  The Mining Association of Canada has released its 2016 Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) progress report. The report takes a look […]

“Plan Nord” is one of the more ambitious economic, social and environmental projects ever proposed in Canada. It’s a massive development project […]

ONTARIO – Noront Resources of Thunder Bay, ON, continues to test the footwall contact that hosts the Eagle’s Nest nickel-copper-platinum-palladium deposit near […]

ONTARIO – About 235 km northeast of Thunder Bay, Landore Resources of London, UK, has drilled a significant new gold zone at […]

It’s conventional wisdom that underground mining is a dirty business. In fact, it’s undeniably true because as almost everybody knows, the nature […]

Newfoundland and Labrador is one of the foremost producers of iron and nickel in Canada, ranking second in production of both metals […]

Richard Fink, Vice President, Technology, with Cleveland-based Cliffs Natural Resources, is a mining industry veteran who knows that discretion is sometimes the better part of valour when it comes to discussing mineral deposits, and the...

Vale Canada Ltd.'s $2.8-billion nickel processing facility at Long Harbour in Newfoundland will be a showcase for the mining giant's newly developed hydrometallurgy refining technology when the plant is completed in early 2013.

The words "mineral resources" might well be spelled "commodity prices". The mining industry understands that the higher the prices the more material falls within the definition of resources, meaning it has the potential to be economically...