National Mining Association (NMA) President and CEO Kraig R. Naasz and the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) International President Cecil E. Roberts have called on Congress to support a technology solution to climate change.  Their joint letter to key Members of Congress underscores the high priority the entire coal community assigns to the development and deployment of […]

Goldcorp’s El Sauzal mine in Mexico has become the first gold mining operation in Mexico to be fully certified under the International Cyanide Management Code for the Manufacture, Transport and Use of Cyanide in the Production of Gold (the Cyanide Code). El Sauzal was 2007’s largest gold producer in Mexico, at over 300,000 oz. Early […]

Kirkland Lake Gold has won both the Angus D. Campbell Award and the Robert E. Dye trophy for 2007. The Angus D. Campbell award, first presented in 1950, is presented annually to the company operating in northeast Ontario with the lowest frequency of accidents. The award was presented jointly to both Kirkland Lake Gold and […]

Mine Site Technologies (MST) has provided a remote area communication solution based on Rajant’s 802.11 Wireless Mesh Breadcrumbs for Beaconsfield gold mine in Tasmania, Australia. In the mine’s on-going program to enhance safety, Beaconsfield engineers identified remote surveying using a laser scanner offered significant opportunity to avoid personnel being exposed to unsupported areas in the […]

An abundance of manufactured products including ceramic tiles and kitchenware, consumer electronics, medical appliances and paints may in the future include minerals extracted from oil sands tailings thanks to a C$3.5 million grant from Alberta Energy to Titanium Corp. The company will research the value-added opportunities and environmental benefits of stripping out hydrocarbons and heavy […]

A key industry consortium has described as “staggering” the impending demand for infrastructure in South Australia - home to the massive Olympic Dam mine - and deemed essential that its early development proceeds if the State is to fuel the prospective mining boom for at least the next two decades. In a major high level […]