April 17, 2020

MINING PEOPLE: Central Timmins Exploration, GFM Resources, MacLean Engineering

Key moves in the mining sector.

April 16, 2020

Teck announces $20 million covid-19 response fund

Funding will go to support critical social initiatives and increased healthcare capacity, including procuring 1m masks to be donated to BC healthcare.

April 16, 2020

A guide to predictive maintenance for the smart mine

Equipment breakdowns are often costly on many levels.

April 16, 2020

NAT 2020 conference canceled, says SME

The next Cutting Edge Conference will be held November 9-11 in Dallas, Texas.

April 15, 2020

Wind River and TAGE team to advance autonomous mining

TAGE has developed an autonomous haulage system solution based on an edge to cloud architecture, including an intelligent cloud platform.

April 15, 2020

South Africa mining faces 45,000 job losses on extended lockdown

South Africa’s mining industry could shed more than 10,000 direct jobs as the sector reels from the impact of the nationwide lockdown.

April 15, 2020

With baby steps, Canada’s provinces prepare for a return to work

Workers at sites like Agnico's LaRonde mine face temperature checks and extensive screening to rule out exposure to the virus.

April 14, 2020

USW lays out guidelines for right to refuse work process

Many union members are still on the job during the pandemic.

April 13, 2020

University of Exeter spin-out secures investment

Minviro is a spin-out company focused on environmental sustainability in mining.

April 12, 2020

Gold, vanadium, europium reveal existence of mysterious particle

Majorana fermions could be the key to stable, error-proof qubits for quantum computing.