Cecilia Jamasmie , Senior Editor

I’ll start off with an analogy. Let’s say you just bought a business, a small restaurant. You open for business on Monday […]

Automated operations are winning over today’s mining industry. Whether it is autonomous trucks, tele-operated drills and blasts or automated logistics applications, mines […]

For some it might sound like a futuristic tale, but for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Agency (NASA), the goal of […]

They may look like easy-to-drive toy trucks when at the bottom of the mine, but the reality is quite the opposite. Mining […]

First there were “blood diamonds,” the gems that fuelled conflict and human rights abuses in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Then there was […]

That a fertilizer may become the next gold may seem hard to believe. However, when Canadian company Potash Corp, a fertilizer producer […]

Finding diamonds in Canada was, for many years, little more than a prospector’s hope. But with the discovery of diamonds in Nunavut […]

I n early January 2009, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet announced a $4 billion plan to help Chile fight the global economic crisis […]

In 1987, second-year Lakehead University geology student Brad Wood made the type of discovery that all prospectors dream about. He had been […]

If you think that mining is a 3D problem, think again. Mining Innovation,  Rehabilitation and Applied Research  (MIRARCO) vice-president, Andrew  Dasys, says […]