Tag: Canadian Mining
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Simple Steps at the Start to Protect for the Future – Investment Structuring for Miners
Canadian miners face multifaceted and often complex challenges when investing abroad, and investment structuring may help protect against political, social, and environmental risk when doing business internationally. This week’s Blog from Rachel Howie at Dentons discusses how investment structuring should be a part of every international miner’s due diligence.
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Between the Road and the Load: Calculate True Capacity Before Buying Your Next Trailer
A trailer is never just a trailer. It can be manufactured to many different specifications, with multiple raw material options, dozens of load and geographical considerations, various top speed requirements, and hundreds of possible axle configurations coming into play. This week’s Blog from Talbert Manufacturing takes a deep dive into how to best calculate the…
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Cheap Media, Expensive Problems
Factors to consider during selection include the operating environment, material characteristics, wear life and maintenance. @MAJOR explains how choosing the right media is more than just a decision based on price.
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2022 Coal Association of Canada Conference
With a focus on Canada’s Coal: On The Road To Energy Security, the Coal Association of Canada (CAC) will be holding our annual conference September 21 – 23, 2022. This week’s Blog takes a look at what attendees can expect this year at Canada’s premiere coal conference. Hope to see you there!
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Arc Flash Safety in Mining
Arc Flash Safety in Mining The single largest category of electrical injuries in the mining industry is non-contact electrical burns caused by arc flash events, according to an investigation conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) over 11 years. Even though this study found that the majority of mining electrical injuries…
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Blasting Science Takes Another Digital Step
To achieve optimal blasting results for mining efficiency, mines need real-time data from their blasting blocks; BME’s new generation XPLOLOG does just that – and is being put to work at a large opencast mine in South Africa’s Northern Cape province. This week’s Blog takes a deeper dive into what BME is bringing to the…
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Gearing Up for Increased Exploration: Di-Corp Launches Expanded Drill Rod Production
Many forecasters of future energy and mining activity still see the global push toward electrification as a key driver of future demand and commodity prices for minerals like copper, cobalt, nickel, lithium, manganese, rare earth elements, and others. This week’s Blog looks at how Di-Corp has been gearing up production, engineering, and technical support to…
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Attracting and Retaining Employees – A Seemingly Exhausting Process
Do you keep posting job opportunities, and no one applies? Are you looking through the applications you did receive and think to yourself, ‘Can they even do this job?’ Is the worry of not being able to meet project deadlines and attract new customers keeping you up at night? This week’s Blog from Inspiring Organizational…
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Ontario Mine Rescue Competition Winners Announced
The Ontario Mine Rescue program has been a standardized province-wide collaboration between all mine operators since 1929. Continuing this tradition, mine rescue skills were put to the test at Workplace Safety North’s annual Ontario Mine Rescue provincial competition in June. In this week’s Blog, we look back on the results of the competition, which demonstrate…