Ailbhe Goodbody

Brossard, Montreal

Editor and Technical Writer at Freelance

Senior Editor at Canadian Institute of Mining (CIM)

Senior Editor at CIM Magazine

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Articles

Transforming how the world powers itself

1 month ago | magazine.cim.org | Ailbhe Goodbody |Ashley Fish-Robertson

Christine Healy, president and CEO of Northland Power Inc., delivered a keynote address at the 2025 CIM CONNECT Convention and Expo on May 6 on the topic “Energy Transition and the Evolving Energy Sector” that explored the future of energy and the drivers behind the energy transition. “Today, we are living through one of the most consequential shifts in modern history,” she said. “We are transforming how the world powers itself. It’s complex and it’s urgent, and it’s happening in real time.
A magnet for exploration

1 month ago | magazine.cim.org | Ailbhe Goodbody

In CIM Bulletin in July 1953, J.A.H. Paterson wrote that “in a hitherto unopened area of northern Manitoba, a large operation is being brought to the point of production.
Selective solvent

2 months ago | magazine.cim.org | Ailbhe Goodbody |Ashley Fish-Robertson

On Feb. 20, the Boston, U.S.-based biotechnology company Allonnia announced that it had recently completed a demonstration of its recyclable biosolution at SGS’s metallurgical lab in Lakefield, Ontario, that it said validated the solution’s efficacy in a continuous process.
In the heat of the mine

2 months ago | magazine.cim.org | Ailbhe Goodbody |Kelsey Rolfe |Anne Millar |Mary Wells

Emily Tetzlaff is a recent PhD graduate of the human kinetics program from the Human and Environmental Physiology Research Unit at the University of Ottawa. Through her doctorate, she was also a research affiliate with the Climate Change and Innovation Bureau at Health Canada, and a fatigue risk management analyst for Torex Gold Resources Inc. Sign Up Already signed up?
Canada’s first rock salt mine

2 months ago | magazine.cim.org | Ailbhe Goodbody

“We can speak today of the vastness of Canada’s salt resources, but it was not always so,” wrote H.A. Wilson (CIM Bulletin, 1947). “From at least 1800 onward, the need for a domestic salt industry was clearly recognized by the governments of the day.”While the existence of salt springs and brine pools in Nova Scotia were well known, there was no large-scale extraction until the 20th century.
Potash economics

Feb 17, 2025 | magazine.cim.org | Ailbhe Goodbody

Saskatchewan, Canada, is currently the world’s leading potash producer and exporter, but this has not always been the case. There was no significant potash industry in North America until the 20th century, with the majority of potash imports coming from Germany. This changed in 1925, when potash was discovered in Carlsbad, New Mexico. The United States’ first refined commercial potash was produced there in 1932. Then, in 1943, significant potash mineralization was discovered in Saskatchewan.
Canada becomes a major iron ore producer

Jan 17, 2025 | magazine.cim.org | Ailbhe Goodbody |Virginia Heffernan |Correy Baldwin

The first reference to iron in the Labrador Trough, a geologic belt hosting world-class iron deposits that extends for approximately 1,100 kilometres through Labrador and Quebec, was made by Father Louis Babel, who travelled in the area from 1866 to 1870, according to H.E. Neal (Explor. Mining Geol., Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 113-121, 2000). Sign Up Already signed up?
A new purpose for Renard

Jan 16, 2025 | magazine.cim.org | Ailbhe Goodbody |Virginia Heffernan |Correy Baldwin

Winsome Resources hopes that an opportunity to acquire the Renard diamond mine and repurpose it into a lithium processing facility will help it get its flagship Adina lithium project in Quebec up and running within the next four years. Sign Up Already signed up?
The rush for northwest Quebec

Nov 18, 2024 | magazine.cim.org | Ailbhe Goodbody |Virginia Heffernan |Correy Baldwin

The discovery of a deposit containing copper, gold and other minerals in Rouyn-Noranda, in northwestern Quebec, started a mining rush that spurred the economic development of what was then a remote area of the province. The initial mineral discovery that led to the development of the Horne mine was made by Edmund Horne—the mine’s namesake. Following prospecting trips to the area in 1911, 1914 and 1917, he staked his first claim in the area during the summer of 1920.
Big machines, big batteries

Nov 4, 2024 | magazine.cim.org | Ailbhe Goodbody |Alexandra Lopez-Pacheco |Eavan Moore

Secure supply chains, safety and the need for boots on the ground when introducing new technology animated a special panel discussion at the third edition of the BEV In-Depth: Mines to Mobility conference in Sudbury in late May. Sign Up Already signed up?