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Investments aid coal shipping

Moving coal from trains to ships will be more efficient now, due to investments in new equipment by Neptune Bulk Terminals. — Jeffrey Cooper photo St

Trevor Crawley

High hopes for isotopes

1 of 3Soil sampling is not new in exploration—but Uravan's technique of separating clays from soils was unorthodox and gave a more complete view of th

Glynis Fediuk

Driving innovation

Tents are set up at the base camp at Thor Lake in the Northwest Territories, as drilling, exploration and development continue in the search for rare

Kali Love

Tailings ponds made better

Centrifuge technology is allowing Syncrude to reclaim its tailings ponds with greater success. — Photo courtesy Syncrude Canada Ltd. Syncrude began o

Kali Love

Reusing what is not renewable

Christa Ford, a senior chemist at Teck Trail Operations, stands beside e-waste that will be recycled. — photo courtesy Teck Trail Operations In 2007,

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Talk in a tech-savvy world

Mark Gelsomini is fully suited up and equipped—and ready to head down into an underground mine site. — photo courtesy Mark Gelsomini Mark Gelsomini

Kali Love

Think inside the box

Channing McCorriston, Evan Willouhby and Bryan McCrea appeared on the set of CBC's Dragons' Den with their custom built Sea-Can container. — photo cou

Knelson

Knelson uses gravity concentrators to separate and recover valuable minerals. Reclaiming precious metals is a simple procedure with technology that

Seeing infrared

This indium antimonide crystal (L) will be used to make polished indium anitmonide wafers such as this one (R), which is destined for use in infrared

Glynis Fediuk

The future found in the ground

Terbium is a heavy rare earth metal that is used in LEDs, TVs and fluorescent lamps. — photo courtesy Avalon Rare Metals Rare earth elements and me

Kali Love