Teck’s Duck Pond mine, located 28 km south of Millertown and 100 km southwest of Grand Falls-Windsor, is a tight -knit operation with a ‘family feel" and a strong culture of safety.  The day-and-night shifts know every member...

Mining giant Teck built its business by mining zinc and, more recently, coal, but what most people don't know about the company is that it also has a "greener" side to it because it is now one of the larger…

The Wolverine Mine is truly a sight to behold. From its postcard setting adjacent to Wolverine Lake and a panoramic view of the Pelly Mountains, the site of Yukon's newest mine looks almost resort-like in nature, but as its owners…

Overland Resources Limited conducted a significant and successful exploration and development program during 2011 on its Yukon Base Metal Project which incorporates the Selous Project located approximately 100 km north of the town of Faro in...

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...

"Finally!" John Kearney puts an extra emphasis on that word, summing up the daunting array of hurdles and roadblocks that Canadian Zinc Corporation has traversed in almost 20 years of work on the Prairie Creek base metal/silver deposit.

Snow Lake will soon be living up to its name as another Manitoba winter sets in, but regardless of the weather, it won't slow things down for HudBay Minerals as it pushes on to get its $704-million Lalor project to…

MANITOBA  - Sustainability is achieved when the least amount of energy exerted results in the greatest productivity outcome. This philosophy is key to the management at HudBay Mineral's Chisel North zinc mine near Snow Lake. The company...

Flooding is usually a nightmare for miners, but for Selwyn Resources of Vancouver, the millions of gallons of water sitting in its newly purchased zinc and lead pit near Halifax weren't that big of a problem.

Unlike many Yukon mining companies, Selwyn Chihong Mining Ltd worked through the harsh winter months and successfully completed the mobilization of heavy mining equipment and supplies to "The Selwyn Project," a massive zinc-lead deposit on the...

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…

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…