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March 2021 / 2021 / Mining

Keeping Workers Safe Underground

Written by Nate Hendley

Jannatec Technologies designs, manufactures, and sells products and provides services that enhance safety and productivity for people who work underground. Primarily focused on the mining sector, the company’s proprietary products incorporate sensors, cameras, radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags, connectivity solutions, and other technological tools. When fitted to hardhats, clothing, or vehicles, these products enable communication, hazard detection, data and image-recording, and tracking when workers are underground.

March 2021 / 2021 / Mining

Bringing Unique New Processes to Ontario’s Metal Industry

Salto Heat Treating

Written by William Young

Salto Heat Treating Limited is a commercial heat treating service based out of Sudbury, Ontario that offers a range of full-treatment services with top-tier equipment. The company is unique in its area, capable of tackling larger projects with unmatched service and quicker set-up times.

2021 / Associations / March 2021 / Mining

Digging Deep to Improve Mining Technology Worldwide

MineConnect

Written by Robert Hoshowsky

The voice of Ontario’s mining supply sector, the Sudbury Area Mining Supply & Service Association, known as SAMSSA, has unveiled MineConnect to the world – an entirely new value proposition to the world’s mining industry.

March 2021 / 2021 / Mining

Women in Mining

Making their Mark in a Male-Dominated Industry

Written by Claire Suttles

Women have made incredible strides in the mining industry. Just a few decades ago, states throughout the U.S. had laws that actually prohibited women from working underground. Folklore banned women from mines as well; common belief held that women brought bad luck to a mine or that they were too fragile to handle the demands of working underground. It was not uncommon for women to be outright denied entry to a mine as they began pushing into the industry in the 1970s.

June 2020 / 2020 / Mining

A Northern Community with a Can-Do Attitude

Town of Kirkland Lake, ON

Written by Anne Lindert-Wentzell

Kirkland Lake, Ontario is a municipality of eight thousand people approximately six hundred kilometres north of Toronto and 241 kilometres to the northeast of North Bay in the Timiskaming District. It was incorporated as a town in 1972 and began with a gold mining history that reaches back to the early 1900s.

June 2020 / 2020 / Mining

Electrifying the Mining Community

Manufacture Adria

Written by David O'Neill

Manufacture Adria is no stranger to the mining community. The company, which started out as an offshoot from another electrical contractor, has been a part of the industry for over a quarter of a century. The expertise that has been harnessed over this time, coupled with the growth and determination that comes with its newly independent status, has resulted in revolutionary new developments, not just for the company itself, but for the mining industry as a whole.

June 2020 / 2020 / Mining

Creating Opportunity in Atlantic Canada

Anaconda Mining

Written by Mark Golombek

Back in 2014, I had the pleasure of writing about Anaconda Mining, a small company out of Toronto with a lot of clout. Environmentally and community friendly, this mainly gold mining company has grand plans for expansion. The acquisition of Orex is furthering the Goldboro project in Nova Scotia, the gold mine at Point Rousse in Newfoundland is active, and there are a host of ancillary endeavours. We spoke with its President and Chief Executive Officer Dustin Angelo.

2020 / Mining / Water Resources

Blue Gold

Water Use in the Resource Sector

Written by Robert Hoshowsky

Water – it’s simply our most precious resource, and few industries depend on reliable sources of water more than mining, oil and gas, and pulp and paper. Whether in mineral extraction, in processing, or in dust suppression in mining, or mixed with chemicals and proppants and fracking fluid for oil extraction, water’s importance to the world’s resource sector is immeasurable.

October 2020 / 2020 / April 2020 / Mining

Bringing First-Rate Safety Solutions to the Mining Industry

The NMT Group

Written by William Young

Manufacturing company Nordic Minesteel Technologies was founded in 1993 as Minesteel Fabricators Limited by President and Owner Ron Elliot. In 2008, Elliot purchased Nordic Mine Technologies, an outfit that specialized in underground rail haulage, and the two companies amalgamated in 2014 to form what is now Nordic Minesteel Technologies Inc. (or the NMT Group).

October 2020 / 2020 / April 2020 / Mining

Environmental Passion Drives Westpro Machinery

Westpro Machinery Inc.

Written by Allison Dempsey

Environmental issues and concerns have rightfully taken centre stage for a number of years around the globe, and Westpro Machinery’s ongoing commitment to caring for the earth isn’t just lip service: this Canadian mineral processing technology company is putting its innovative knowledge to excellent use, with more than 34 years of invaluable experience and an unwavering dedication to leaving this planet cleaner for generations to come.

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