The Strong Hand Theory
I’ll start off with an analogy. Let’s say you just bought a business, a small restaurant. You open for business on Monday […]
Cecilia Jamasmie , Senior Editor
Posts by Cecilia Jamasmie:
The Mine of the Future Might be a Thing of the Past
Automated operations are winning over today’s mining industry. Whether it is autonomous trucks, tele-operated drills and blasts or automated logistics applications, mines […]
Mining the Moon is Closer than Ever
For some it might sound like a futuristic tale, but for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Agency (NASA), the goal of […]
The Faces Behind the Wheel
They may look like easy-to-drive toy trucks when at the bottom of the mine, but the reality is quite the opposite. Mining […]
Tantalum: A Bloody Future?
First there were “blood diamonds,” the gems that fuelled conflict and human rights abuses in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Then there was […]
Potash Rush Fires Up
That a fertilizer may become the next gold may seem hard to believe. However, when Canadian company Potash Corp, a fertilizer producer […]
Nunavut: The Epicentre of a New Diamond Exploration Boom in Canada
Finding diamonds in Canada was, for many years, little more than a prospector’s hope. But with the discovery of diamonds in Nunavut […]
Chile, Codelco and the Copper Slump
I n early January 2009, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet announced a $4 billion plan to help Chile fight the global economic crisis […]
Victor Mine
In 1987, second-year Lakehead University geology student Brad Wood made the type of discovery that all prospectors dream about. He had been […]
Mining in Five Dimensions
If you think that mining is a 3D problem, think again. Mining Innovation, Rehabilitation and Applied Research (MIRARCO) vice-president, Andrew Dasys, says […]
China funnelled $57 billion to control critical mineral supply chain
A network of at least 26 state-backed banks has helped Beijing tighten its grip on critical minerals over the past two decades.
