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Deloitte mining report explores key trends in 2019
As the industry shifts into a new stage of growth, miners must take an ever-expanding range of issues into account when setting corporate strategy. This week’s Blog takes a look at Deloitte’s 11th annual mining report, Tracking the Trends, and examines some of the report’s key findings in hopes of better navigating the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
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Mining Matters Rocks On Celebrating 25 Years of Educating the Next Generation of Geoscientists
Mining Matters helps to educate young people in developing a greater knowledge and awareness of Earth sciences, the minerals industry, and the role it plays within society. This week’s Blog takes a look at this charitable organization and the valuable work it has performed over the last 25 years.
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Five pioneers inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame
The Canadian Mining Hall of Fame held its 31st Annual Dinner and Induction Ceremony earlier this month in Toronto. Among this year’s five inductees were; Kate Carmack (ShaawTláa), Brian Meikle, Jim Franklin, Sandy Laird and Jim Gill. This week’s Blog takes a look back upbeat and reflective evening of recognition, which marked the induction of the first indigenous woman to ever into the Hall of Fame.
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PDAC 2019 Convention: The event you cannot afford to miss
Canada’s largest city is set to host another outstanding lineup of speakers, short courses, technical sessions, investment opportunities, and unparalleled networking events when the world’s premier mineral exploration and mining convention returns to Toronto March 3-6. This week’s Blog takes a look at what you can expect at this year’s PDAC 2019 Convention and why you really need to be there in Toronto later this Spring.
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Target a Specific Industry!
In today’s information age, it has become increasingly difficult for many advertisers to have their voices heard over the incessant clamour of the Internet. Yes, there have been many news stories about the supposed “death of print,” but the truth of the matter is that this much touted death has been greatly exaggerated; especially in the case of association or trade magazines. This week’s Blog takes a look at Matrix Group Publishing Inc. and how they can help you reach the audience you seek and get the most value out of your advertising dollars.
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A New Commodity for Canada’s resource economy: Petrolithium
When your resource-based economy hands you lemons… you make Lithium. In the wake of the challenges currently facing the Canadian oil industry in regard to blocked pipelines and tumbling prices, there comes a need to find innovative new ways to diversify Canada’s extractive economy and become more proactive in these changing times.
This week’s Blog takes a look at the work being done by MXG Minerals in transforming the wastewater produced by oil and gas extraction into an entirely new commodity – Petrolithium .
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New Mineral Demand Driven by the Shift to a Low-Carbon Society
The world is going through a renewed industrial revolution characterized by a growing need to power modern society with clean, low-carbon energy sources. As with the first industrial revolution, minerals and metals will play a critical role is supporting change, especially those that are essential to clean energy technologies.
This week’s Blog takes a look at what minerals and metals will be most needed and how Canada is positioned to take advantage of industry’s evolution, as well as reminding us about the upcoming Mineral Exploration Roundup conference in Vancouver.
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Canada’s Clean Growth Program Invests in Borden Project
Canadian mining is seeing a real drive to innovate that is strengthening our ability to get materials to global markets as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible. And it’s changing what it means to work in mining. This week’s Blog takes a look at how Goldcorp aims to ambitiously increase production by 20 per cent at Borden by 2021 and, with help from Natural Resources Canada’s Clean Growth Program, is evolving the mine into the first all-electric underground gold mine in the country, which will be safer for its employees and have a smaller environmental footprint.
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Sourcing, Compliance, Complexity: Navigating Successfully into the Future
Too often, the adoption of new tools that could potentially help the bottom lines of the metals and mining industry lags behind the speed at which it is evolving. This week’s Blog takes a broad look at the industry and asks if it’s currently equipped to handle the pressure of inevitable change while also circumventing emerging risks and providing a high degree of accountability for stakeholders.
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Six Possible Reasons Why Injury Rates are Increasing in Mining
Mining companies in 2018 have access to more tools, more data, and more training than ever before in regard to safety and safety operations. But injury rates at Canadian mines are still on the rise. This week’s Blog takes a look at six possible reasons why this might be so and the steps the mining industry can take to reverse this trend, ensuring that all miners go home safe and injury-free at the end of the day.
