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Falcon Belt Splicing Presses Now Available in South America

Through our South American subsidiary All Rubber (Chile), Falcon conveyor belt splicing presses are ...

Posted on 25 February 2010 | 7:00 pm

Colibrys Releases New MEMS Accelerometer for Attitude Heading and Reference Systems

Colibrys has announced the release of its new MS9005, a ±5g range MEMS accelerometer, to co...

Posted on 23 February 2010 | 7:00 pm

Bestech Australia's New System for Testing of California Bearing Ratio and Unconfined Compressive Strength

Bestech Australia has announced the introduction of a new system for the testing of compression stre...

Posted on 22 February 2010 | 7:00 pm

Sidrasul Chosen as New Distributor for Dragflow Mining and Dredging Equipment in Brazil

Dragflow of Italy, one of the most qualified suppliers of heavy duty pumps in the mining industry wi...

Posted on 11 February 2010 | 7:00 pm

Ausco Answers Enviromental Challenge in $50 Million Gorgon Gas Project

Ausco Modular will take unprecedented steps to safeguard the ecology of Western Australia's Barrow I...

Posted on 11 February 2010 | 7:00 pm

Colibrys Selects Treffer Technologias as its Brazilian Distributor

Colibrys (Switzerland) has appointed Treffer Technologias as Brazilian distributor for its complete ...

Posted on 27 January 2010 | 7:00 pm

Murray & Roberts Cementation Develops New Shaft Sinking Methodology

Murray & Roberts Cementation is currently engineering a new shaft sinking methodology for it...

Posted on 23 January 2010 | 7:00 pm

New Australian Coal Mine Goes Digital for Underground Communications and Tracking

Whitehaven Coals has chosen two of Mine Site Technologies' (MST) core systems to provide a complete ...

Posted on 20 January 2010 | 7:00 pm

Geraldton Emergency Response and Safety Training Centre Brings Skills and Savings to Mid West Australia

In March 2009 one of the largest new mining projects in the Mid West Australian region, the &#36...

Posted on 17 January 2010 | 7:00 pm

AngleStar Precision Digital Inclinometer for Angle Measurement

Bestech Australia presents the AngleStar electronic protractor system from Sherborne Sensors. This p...

Posted on 17 January 2010 | 7:00 pm

Thunder Bay’s Confederation College, Mineral Sector Train Aboriginal Students for Mining Jobs – Ian Ross

This article was originally published in Northern Ontario Business in the December, 2009 issue. Esta...

Posted on 23 August 2010 | 2:58 pm

De Beers Canada Victor Mine Creates Enormous Opportunities for Northern Ontario First Nations

This article was provided by the Ontario Mining Association (OMA), an organization that was establis...

Posted on 23 August 2010 | 12:07 pm

Roasting (Heat) or Leaching (Liquid) Minerals: Which is More Environmentally Sound – by Marilyn Scales

Marilyn Scales is a field editor for the Canadian Mining Journal, Canada’s first mining publicatio...

Posted on 23 August 2010 | 9:04 am

Hollywood’s Avatar Imitates Ontario Mining/Aboriginal Conflicts – by Juan Carlos Reyes

Juan Carlos Reyes is the organizer of the annual Learning Together conference and an aboriginal cons...

Posted on 22 August 2010 | 9:28 am

Ontario’s Hemlo Gold Camp Celebrates 25 Years of Production

This article was provided by the Ontario Mining Association (OMA), an organization that was establis...

Posted on 16 August 2010 | 10:34 am

Anglo American Chairman Sir Mark Moody-Stuart Speech to the Leadership Conference on Global Corporate Citizenship in New York (January, 29, 2009)

This speech by Anglo American Chairman Sir Mark Moody-Stuart is an excellent example of the mining s...

Posted on 8 August 2010 | 11:12 am

Anglo American CEO Cynthia Carroll – Speech to the Mining Indaba Cape Town, 2 February 2010 – “Making a Real Difference”

Anglo American CEO Cynthia Carrol Mining Indaba is the world’s largest gathering of mining...

Posted on 7 August 2010 | 9:46 am

Map Staking Versus Ground Staking: An Enormous Threat to Ontario’s Mineral Prospectors – by Gregory Reynolds

Gregory Reynolds - Timmins Columnist This column was originally published in the Autumn, 2009 issue ...

Posted on 6 August 2010 | 9:29 am

OMA to Help Educate Teachers About Mining at Mattawa Seminar

This article was provided by the Ontario Mining Association (OMA), an organization that was establis...

Posted on 5 August 2010 | 3:01 pm

The Liberal HST Tax Will Be Good For Northern Ontario Business – by David Robinson

Dr. David Robinson drobinson@laurentian.ca is an economist at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Can...

Posted on 5 August 2010 | 2:22 pm

PERSPECTIVE: Thoughts on loosing control of Canada's potash resources

Much is being said about BHP Billiton's hostile $39-billion takeover offer for Potash Corp. of Saska...

Posted on 30 August 2010 | 1:04 pm

IRON ORE TESTS: Fire Lake North samples produce clean gravity results

QUEBEC - Gravity separation tests conducted for Champion Minerals of Toronto on drill core samples f...

Posted on 25 August 2010 | 2:29 pm

CYANIDE CODE: Los Filos mine certified, Cyanco applies

WASHINGTON, DC - The International Cyanide Management Institute (ICMI) has certified the Los Filos g...

Posted on 25 August 2010 | 2:27 pm

ABORIGINAL RELATIONS: BC agrees to share New Afton royalties

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government has signed what may be a historic agreement with the Stk'...

Posted on 25 August 2010 | 2:24 pm

FINANCING: Adex promised money for Mount Pleasant

TORONTO - Adex Mining has entered a private placement deal with Great Harvest Canadian Investment Co...

Posted on 25 August 2010 | 2:22 pm

MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS: Astur Gold and East Asia Minerals

Vancouver-based Astur Gold Corp. has appointed Sean Roosen to its board of directors. He is the CEO ...

Posted on 25 August 2010 | 2:20 pm

PERSPECTIVE: Hooray for the survival of 33 Chilean miners

On Aug. 5, 2010, the worst fears of 33 Chilean copper miners were realized when they were trapped un...

Posted on 25 August 2010 | 2:18 pm

HOT TOPIC: How are your survival skills?

Imagine for a minute that you shared the fate of the 33 trapped Chilean miners who could wait until ...

Posted on 25 August 2010 | 2:15 pm

DIAMOND EXPLORATION: Six more kimberlites identified at Chidliak

NUNAVUT - Vancouver-based Peregrine Diamonds has identified six new kimberlites at it Chidliak proje...

Posted on 25 August 2010 | 2:12 pm

NICKEL EXPLORATION: Minago drilling yields long, strong intersections

MANITOBA - Victory Nickel of Toronto calls recent intersections at its Minago sulphide nickel projec...

Posted on 25 August 2010 | 2:11 pm

Builders of N.Y. mosque face financial hurdles

The developers planning to build a $100 million Islamic center near the World Trade Center site are ...

Posted on 2 September 2010 | 7:37 pm

Stocks close higher after jobs, housing reports

Stocks ended higher for the third consecutive session after reports on housing, manufacturing and jo...

Posted on 2 September 2010 | 5:18 pm

Life Inc.: Proof that we can't work any harder

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Posted on 2 September 2010 | 5:00 pm

Mariner may be facing BP-style crisis

Mariner Energy, Inc. shares dropped more than 4 percent Thursday following news that one of its prod...

Posted on 2 September 2010 | 4:53 pm

Economic data show recovery still kicking, a bit

It was a glass-half-full day for economic data on Thursday ... sort of.  The upbeat news was tempe...

Posted on 2 September 2010 | 4:34 pm

ABM to pay $5.8 million in harassment case

A large building-maintenance company will pay $5.8 million to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit bro...

Posted on 2 September 2010 | 4:27 pm

Gold Prices to Challenge All Time High

So much for a lackluster summer and the summer doldrums as gold prices increased by around $100/oz i...

Posted on 2 September 2010 | 11:55 pm

Walter Energy Modifies Full-Year 2010 Coking Coal Sales Expectations

Walter Energy (NYSE: WLT), a leading U.S. producer and exporter of premium hard coking coal for the ...

Posted on 2 September 2010 | 11:47 pm

Xstrata reaches deal on $4.2 bln Peru copper mine

Peru's government and Anglo-Swiss miner Xstrata signed a deal Thursday under which the company will ...

Posted on 2 September 2010 | 11:41 pm

Steel industry outlook still hazy

Imported iron ore from Brazil ready for unloading at Wuhan Iron and Steel Co's port in Hubei provinc...

Posted on 2 September 2010 | 11:37 pm

Komatsu’s new fuel-efficient crawler dozers

Komatsu’s new line of D65-16 crawler dozers are powered with a fuel-efficient 8.27-liter Komatsu S...

Posted on 2 September 2010 | 11:32 pm

Aust stocks higher at noon

The Australian stock market was higher at noon, after losing some ground with all four major banks f...

Posted on 2 September 2010 | 11:30 pm

China approached Canadian fund on rival Potash bid

MELBOURNE/TORONTO (Reuters) Chinese and other investors have approached at least one big Canadian pe...

Posted on 2 September 2010 | 11:30 pm

Aust stocks extend gains

The Australian stock market opened higher on Friday following more gains on Wall Street overnight. A...

Posted on 2 September 2010 | 11:28 pm

Copper steady, US data supports, jobs report seen key

** To improve ease of searching, Reuters is combining the named item code with the code. From Monday...

Posted on 2 September 2010 | 11:20 pm

Aug 31 Don't fall asleep at your gold wheel

1. Welcome to the Big Leagues. I keep telling the gold community that the Chinese people and Chinese...

Posted on 2 September 2010 | 11:19 pm