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An inquiry into the deadly explosion at the Westray coal mine opened June 29 with accusations from a union lawyer that the company and provincial government routinely ignored safety to boost productio…

Jan Alston, secretary-treasurer of Saskatchewan diamond explorer Rhonda Mining (ASE), stands to make a substantial profit after exercising options at a considerable discount to the recent market price…

If mine decommissioning is Issue No. 1 for the mining industry, Rio Algom’s and Denison’s Elliot Lake, Ont. mines will likely become Reclamation Sites No. 1 in terms of public scrutiny. Denison and Ri…

The domino theory of geopolics held that when a key country falls to communism in a certain region, neighboring countries would eventually, but inevitably, succumb. What with the events of recent his…

Only a few years ago, mine closures in Ontario were uncomplicated and inexpensive. Sell the grinding mills and pumps, salvage the mill buildings and haul up the scoops and jumbos and auction them off…

Open pit mine operators in British Columbia have fine-tuned their cost-cutting skills to an art. Faced with soft metal prices and rising costs, they survive and prosper by their wits as much as by th…

1. A baseline environmental description should be prepared upon which to measure development impact, reclamation effectiveness and over-all success in meeting reclamation objectives. 2. An inventory…

After the lavish banquet of the flow-through years (a memory now, nothing more), Canada’s diamond drillers are eking out an existence on crumbs and scraps. It doesn’t make for a healthy industry. “It…

The removal of dissolved metals in wetlands (land in which the soil is saturated) may be mediated through a variety of processes, including direct uptake by plants, ion exchange or adsorption on clays…

Before acid mine drainage emerged as the gravest effect of tailings deposits, pockets of the north were afflicted by tailings dust storms. Come a dry spell, a good blow sent up clouds of choking grit…

You’re in select company if you work at a British Columbia mine or mill. And you can count on becoming more select as time wears on. The province has 22 operating mines. Ten are threatened by deple…

The Brenda mine in B.C. was poor in terms of grade – 0.17% Cu and 0.04% Mo. But such poverty spurred Brenda’s technical people to introduce a wealth of technological innovations. Process technology …