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Mining
You’re really going to dig today’s mining. Few industries have leveraged the latest technology quite like one of the oldest. From sensors that keep workers breathing easy to robots that do all the dirty work, the future of Canadian mining looks bright.
How Digital Tech Is Making Space and Time Collide for Mine Operators
Operating a mine is a logistical challenge of epic proportions. Today, operators are using digital solutions to dramatically simplify the process. Every mine ...
Why the Mining Industry Is Betting on These Five Digital Trends
The global mining industry is in a state of paradox. On the one hand, worldwide productivity has fallen some 30-35 percent over the last decade.
How the GE Store Found a Better Way to Get Water Out of a Mine
In one respect, underground mines are like inverted skyscrapers, that have a natural tendency to fill up with infiltrating ground water. The water that collects ...
Future-Proofing Mining
Miner problem: billions of dollars invested, lower resource prices, squeezed margins. What would you do? Miners the world over are looking to the future. Yes, ...
Breathing easier underground
How battery-powered scoops are blazing a path towards green mining Mining companies are forced to go deeper underground and extract more challenging ore bodies, but ...
Defying danger
Without good regulations, mining can be a risky profession. Accounting for 1% of global workforce yet 8% of fatal accidents in 2011, its dangers became evident this May when Turkey’s worst mining disaster left 301 miners dead and citizens enraged at perceived government neglect.
Miner key in Canada
In 2011, mining added C$10.2bn to Québec' s economy, employing 85,000 in 32 mines and plants. While Québec ranked as the world’s #1 most attractive spot for mining exploration between 2007 and 2010, royalty hikes & a 3-tiered tax on profits dropped it to 21st in 2013.
Could this place be mining’s rich new source of minerals?
With land-based resources declining and prices rising, mineral miners are turning toward the ocean Could the next gold rush be coming − under the sea? ...
Mine The Moon For Valuable Resources?
We heard yesterday from analysts who are wringing their hands over a coming mineral supply problem. A family of metals called rare earth elements and ...