In the world of publishing, reaching 15 years at the helm of any one magazine is truly a milestone and Canadian Min...

BioteQ Environmental Technologies (TSX-BQE) of Vancouver has just been awarded the 2008 China Mining Environmental ...

At age 13, Alfaxad Chacha started digging. He never stopped. Seven days a week, 14 hours a day, he sifted through t...

PERU Last Friday, July 18, the government of Peru issued a 60-day state of emergency regarding the tailings area ...

A team of nine women representing the WOMEN IN MINING NETWORK appears to have reached first place in the Weekend to...

It stands as a monument to our past, perched in silence on the side of a mountain overlooking the sparkling waters of Howe Sound, 48 km north of Vancouver. Once the most prolific copper producer in th...

In these pages you will find an article updating the Voisey's Bay nickel mine in Labrador, which is being commissioned for first concentrate shipment in November. In preparation, I almost visit...

Toronto's Falconbridge Ltd. reports that it has completed the modifications on a former copper roaster at the Altonorte copper smelter near Antofagasta, and has started producing molybdenum trioxide....

A small Port Perry, Ont., investment company is having a big impact in East Africa. Besides providing direct mining employment and tax revenues, the company has been able to improve the local agricult...

Pyritic waste rock piles generate acid rock drainage, which damages the environment and gives headaches to mining companies. Different methods such as subaqueous deposition and perpetual treatment of...

When CMJ visited Barrick's new mine developments in Argentina and Peru last February, we saw first-hand how hard the company is working to create truly sustainable development for communities a...

Reno, Nevada-based Glamis Gold is building a mine in Guatemala, but local opposition is heating up. Judging from the company's press releases, the company has a very long way to go be...