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Preparing for Emergencies: Are Your Contractors as Safe as Your Employees? How to protect your contractors as effectively as your own employees
Even with the best prevention measures, an emergency will arise. And even though your employees might be well-versed and up to date with your latest emergency response measures, can you say the same about your contract workers? This week’s Blog takes a look at some of the steps you can take to help ensure that all of the workers at your site make it home safe at the end of the day.
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It’s not all about exploration; How optimizing your milling circuit can lead to big savings
While mining exploration may grab all the attention and headlines because of its comparative ‘sexiness’, there are huge challenges in mineral processing that are still waiting to be solved, which – if addressed – could result in significant improvements in throughput, revenue, and profitability. This week’s Blog takes a look at milling optimization and at how you can find ways to maximize uptime and throughput, while balancing against associated costs in order to impact your company’s bottom line.
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How Blockchain Can Improve Canada’s Resource Industry
In regard to its vast abundance of natural resources, Canada is considered around the world as a treasure trove. That being said, the Canadian resource industry is often mired in the past as it relates to innovation, particularly as it organizes, commercializes, and collects as it brings those resources to market. This week’s Blog takes a look at how blockchain can be used to greatly improve this situation and how it is able to streamline many of the inefficiencies that currently impact the transfer of information.
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K+S Potash Canada mines the potential of virtual reality
Through the use of emerging Virtual Reality technologies, a user – no matter where they may be located – is now able to experience what it is like to be part of the Canadian mining industry. This week’s Blog takes a look at how K+S Potash Company is using VR to support education, training, and even improve upon project design by turning science fiction into science reality.
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Mining Geophysics: A Canadian Story The people and events that made Canada a global leader in mining exploration in the 20th Century
Author Norman Reed Paterson, respected worldwide for his innovations in geophysical technology and his indomitable spirit of exploration, takes his readers into the bush, the laboratory , and the office—often with humour—to observe the key players who, through determination and willingness to take risks, showed the world how to find (and make) mines. This week’s Blog takes a quick look at his book, Mining Geophysics: A Canadian Story, and shows you where you can learn more about Canada’s rich geophysical history.
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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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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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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.
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A One Billion Dollar Investment into Emissions Reduction
Before the 380 metre Superstack was built at the Copper Cliff Smelter Complex in Sudbury almost 40 years ago, the air was often thick with sour smelting emissions. Now with the iconic Superstack set for decommissioning and deconstruction in 2020, Vale has taken the next step in improving air quality around the smelter. This week’s Blog takes a look at the accomplishments of Vale Sudbury’s Clean AER Project and the work that it has done in reducing harmful emissions and greenhouse gases in the region.
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