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Equipment supplier acquires world’s highest reaching self-propelled boom Equipment North Inc. has the answer for mining companies in need of making repairs or performing maintenance in hard-to-reach places – the Genie SX-180.

Phoenix Industrial designs innovative scaffolding solution The International Control Dam, which spans halfway across the Niagara River, is in need of repair.

Project costs skyrocketed 300 per cent from 2002 to 2013 Between 2002 and 2013, the mining industry faced unprecedented project cost escalation.

Tony Makuch kicked off Modern Mining and Technology Week in Sudbury Timmins-based Lake Shore Gold has come a long way since a rough patch in 2012 and 2013 when a lot of investors thought the gold producer could go bankrupt.

Shareholders, suppliers and Ontario taxpayers lose millions Citing financial difficulties, Swiss-based United Commodity SA has suspended operations at its Yukon Refinery in North Cobalt and terminated all but a few staff.

The Phoenix Gold Mine is expected to produce 165,300 ounces of gold per year Junior mining companies are down for the count as a result of the drying up of capital markets, but the fevered pace of exploration in the years of record spending between 2

Tales of Mad Miner by Bill Glover Is there another industry as exciting as mining? Bill Glover doesn’t think so and he’s written a few books to prove it.

Frank Racicot, a Sudbury-based consulting geologist, prospector and fi lmmaker, has launched a website to preserve and celebrate the bizarre and unusual stories of what he fears is a dying breed of mineral explorers.

Twenty years and still going strong Gold mines come in different shapes and sizes.

Annual production of 325,000 ounces of gold and 480,000 ounces of silver Gold was worth a little more than $400 an ounce in December 2004 when geologist Nelson Baker had lunch in Vancouver with a merchant banker looking for a potentially promising ex