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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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

Freewest Resources (TSE) director Robert Buttars profited recently by exercising stock options and then selling the shares at a substantial premium to the exercise price. According to the Ontario Secu…

After years of cutbacks in search of improved productivity, only the best of the best are left among the ranks of mining professionals — or at least that’s the optimistic view. Others say those left …

Toronto-based junior Spirit Lake Explorations (ME) is set to spend $1.5 million to extract a 1,500-ton bulk sample from its Edwards gold property northwest of Wawa, Ont. With 100,000 tons of grade 0.5…

Like most junior gold miners, Queenston Mining (TSE) is feeling the pinch of that metal’s low price and is now getting very much involved in copper. For years this company’s activities have centred ar…

Semi-monthly reports as of June 15, showed 25,063,844 shares of 606 issues compared with 25,236,666 shares of 587 issues on May 31. Larger individual positions included: Aber Res. 226,200, up 56,100; …