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British Columbia

Light at the end of the tunnel

Fernie's Miners Walk takes shape outside city hall. — Dan Williams photo After seven years in the making, Fernie’s Miners Walk is now under construct

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Products & Equipment

Secondary containment system

Westeel’s C-Ring Secondary Containment Systems are precision engineered using the latest in computerized design and production technology. For depen

News

Heavy-duty apron pan feeder

Industrial Equipment Manufacturing (IEM) designs and manufactures heavy-duty apron pan feeders for the most rugged and arduous applications where rel

British Columbia

Going deep with education

Delegates gather around a booth at the 2009 Trade Show — Photo courtesy East Kootenay Chamber of Mines The East Kootenay Chamber of Mines is hosting

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Products & Equipment

Compact wood waste grinder

Rayco’s RH1754 compact horizontal grinder can be operated on sites inaccessible to larger machines. — photo courtesy Rayco ManufacturingRayco Manufac

Products & Equipment

Durable earth movers

1 of 3The Cat 6050 hyrdaulic excavator is new to the line. — Photo courtesy Caterpillar Inc.2 of 3The Cat 7495 shovel loading 797F is a heavy-duty ope

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Period Ending June 30, 2011

Exploration

Yukon rush

Bill Sheriff, chairman of the Predator Mining Group, said the opportunities in the Yukon right now are unparalleled. — Photo courtesy Predator Mining

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Mines

Cameco’s creative innovation

1 of 2Crews move the muck away underground at the Cigar Lake remediation project four months after the mine was pumped out. — photo courtesy Cameco2

Lisa Crane •
British Columbia

Knight Piésold turns 90

Knight Piésold, whose Canadian offices are in Vancouver, B.C., and North Bay, Ontario, works on projects all over the world, including in Greenland. —

Lisa Crane •
British Columbia

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

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News

Enabling collaboration for innovation

British Columbia

Decar project holds groundbreaking potential

Peter Bradshaw, First Point Minerals' president and CEO (L), and Trevor Rabb, project geologist, examine the discovery outcrop on the Baptiste target.

Lisa Crane •
Exploration

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 •
British Columbia

Ensuring the next generation

Students at Project Heavy Duty learned about operating large heavy-duty machinery. — Brian Conrad photo Travel to an existing large-scale mining outf

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Products & Equipment

System tracking software

Mining and smelting operations use analysis and tracking tools from Design Maintenance Systems Inc. (DMSI) for simplifying and streamlining maintena

British Columbia

Getting the skills to succeed

As of summer 2011, O'Brien Training became an Industry Training Authority-designated school, and successful students will be Red Sealed. — photo court

Jessica Kirby •
Products & Equipment

Gear reducer

Moving bulk material on a mine site—or from the production point to the loading or processing area—is most efficient and reliable using conveyor sys

Products & Equipment

Diamond core drill bit

Canadian manufacturer Fordia has introduced the latest addition to its Hero series of matrices: the new Hero 11 diamond core bit. The Hero 11 has be

Minerals

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 •
British Columbia

An honourable distinction

Staff at the Britannia Mine Museum worked diligently to redesign the facility—and it paid off at the CMA annual national conference in Ontario. — Phot

Danielle Cameron •
British Columbia

An ear to the ground

The Comox Joint Venture is in the process of determining the scope of work needed to gain environmental approval from provincial and federal governmen

Trevor Crawley •
Alberta

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 •
British Columbia

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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