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2 weeks ago | 
magazine.cim.org | Mehanaz Yakub |Virginia Heffernan |Correy Baldwin
The dual-shaft return air raise at Vale Canada’s Thompson T3 nickel mine in Manitoba, developed by underground mine contracting and engineering firm Cementation Canada Inc., reached a milestone in September 2023. After nearly 600 days of operation, the project set a new record for the longest continuous raise bore in the Americas at 1,076 metres (3,529 feet).
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2 months ago | 
magazine.cim.org | Alexandra Lopez-Pacheco |Virginia Heffernan |Correy Baldwin
In 2012, Vancouver-based Eldorado Gold expanded its reach into one of Europe’s most mineral-rich zones—a region with a mining history spanning more than 2,500 years—when it acquired Hellas Gold and its Kassandra Mines complex in the Halkidiki region of northern Greece as part of a merger with European Goldfields. Its main assets include the Skouries copper-gold project and the Olympias gold-silver-lead-zinc mine.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
magazine.cim.org | Ailbhe Goodbody |Virginia Heffernan |Correy Baldwin
Rio Tinto’s Diavik diamond mine in the Northwest Territories is set to close in approximately 18 months after almost a quarter of a century of operations. Over 144 million carats of rough diamonds have been recovered at Diavik through a combination of open-pit and underground mining since it entered commercial production in 2003, and the mine is a major contributor to the economy of the Northwest Territories, accounting for more than 10 per cent of the territory’s gross domestic product.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
magazine.cim.org | Ailbhe Goodbody |Virginia Heffernan |Correy Baldwin
The oil sands deposits in northeastern Alberta contain the fourth-largest proven oil reserves in the world, after Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and Iran. The oil sands deposits, which account for more than 95 per cent of Canada’s oil reserves, have three main areas—the Athabasca, Peace River and Cold Lake deposits. The province’s oil sands first came to the attention of Europeans in the 18th century, but it would be more than two centuries before bitumen would be successfully extracted from them.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
magazine.cim.org | Alexandra Lopez-Pacheco |Virginia Heffernan |Correy Baldwin
In June 2024, G Mining Ventures began grinding the first ore at its flagship Tocantinzinho (TZ) open-pit gold mining project in Pará State, Brazil, achieving this milestone less than two years after the company announced its US$458 million construction decision in September 2022. Hot commissioning began on June 11, with the first gold pour achieved four weeks later; in that time, approximately 77,000 tonnes of ore was processed through the plant.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
magazine.cim.org | Ailbhe Goodbody |Virginia Heffernan |Correy Baldwin
The mining city of Flin Flon is located in northwest Manitoba, approximately 800 kilometres north of Winnipeg, and partly extends into Saskatchewan. Tom Creighton, an experienced prospector and trapper, discovered significant copper, gold, zinc, silver and lead deposits in the Flin Flon area in 1914 and named the site ‘Flin Flon’ after Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin, a character who explores a bottomless lake by submarine in the 1905 novel The Sunless City, by J. E. Preston Muddock.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
magazine.cim.org | Alexandra Lopez-Pacheco |Virginia Heffernan |Correy Baldwin
The installation of a fully concrete-lined ventilation shaft at Vancouver-based Pan American Silver Corporation’s flagship La Colorada underground silver-zinc-lead mine in Zacatecas, Mexico, was completed in January 2024 by the contractor Dumas Mining and achieved with an outstanding safety record: zero recorded medical treatment injuries, zero restricted work injuries and zero lost-time injuries over two years and 171,204 hours of work.
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