February 29, 2012 Canadian province of Ontario’s Premier tries to clarify oilsands remarks Premier Dalton McGuinty says he wants to clarify comments he made that were taken as a slight to Alberta’s oilsands. Asked by Alberta Premier Alison Redford to publicly support her…
February 23, 2012 EU hesitates to qualify Canada’s oil sands as more polluting than crude In the midst of intense lobbying from Canada, a committee of the European Union Parliament blocked passage of a proposed fuel quality directive that would label Canada’s oil sands as…
January 3, 2012 PetroChina takes over Canadian oil sands project Canadian oil producer Athabasca Oil Sands Corp. (TSX: ATH) has exercised its option to sell its remaining 40 per cent interest in the MacKay River oil sands project to Cretaceous,…
August 30, 2011 China wants to keep rare mineral export restrictions China said on Wednesday that it would appeal against a World Trade Organisation ruling that it illegally restricted exports of certain rare and speciality metals and minerals including bauxite, coking…
June 21, 2011 Flinders Mines drilling moves Pilbara Iron Ore Project closer to Measured Resource Flinders Mines is making strong progress with its drilling program at the Pilbara Iron Ore Project in Western Australia, with over 50 kilometres of drilling completed since the previous resource…
June 17, 2011 Lumina Copper Corp. and Lumina Royalty Corp. Announce Closing of Arrangement Lumina Copper and Lumina Royalty announced that they have closed their previously announced arrangement. Under the terms of a statutory plan of arrangement which received shareholder approval on June 7,…
June 16, 2011 Chemical giant Arkema partners with Canada Fluorspar on acidspar mine It's been a long time coming for some of Canada Fluorspar's (TSX-V: CFI) founding investors, but persistence appears to have paid-off. Arkema and Canada Fluorspar announced they signed a definitive…
September 1, 2010 Insitu: Oil Sands Mining Goes Underground Think of oil sands mining, and images of mammoth machinery, digging and hauling bitumensoaked sand from pits to processing plants, immediately spring to mind. The procedure is […]
September 1, 2010 Oil Sands Mining Equipment Built Tough Big, tough and powerful are the best words to describe the enormous mining equipment that roams the Canadian oil sands like prehistoric beasts. Here in […]
Rio Tinto’s fourth-quarter iron ore, copper output beat estimates The world's largest producer of iron ore shipped 91.3 Mt of the steel-making commodity from its Pilbara operations in the three months ended December 31. January 20, 2026 | 02:08 pm
