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Two new coal mine proposals under review in British Columbia

Following a steelmaking coal price crash between 2015 and 2016, the value of coal exports from BC dropped by more than half, from $7 billion in 2011, when met coal prices reached close to $300 per ...

Top 10 largest gold mines in Canada in 2020

With 569 koz of gold produced in 2020 Canadian Malartic, jointly owned by Yamana Gold and Agnico Eagle, was the largest gold mine in Canada. Gold production in the full-year 2020 decreased 15% when compared to the prior-year primarily as a result of lower grades and lower throughput in the first nine months of the year. ... Production at …

Mining the Oil Sands: A tour of Alberta's nine …

The facility consists of one very large mining pit, located just south of Aurora North, and now has a bitumen production capacity of 175,000 bbl/day. Operatorship was transferred to Canadian Natural …

In-Situ Production in the Oil Sands – Energy Exchange

The Canada Energy Regulator (CER) expects in-situ oil sands production to grow almost 70% between 2018 and 2040, from 1.6 to 2.7 million barrels per day. The main reason for this growth is that in-situ plants are cheaper than oil sands mining plants because they are smaller and don't need processing plants and tailings ponds and dams.

Mining the Oil Sands: A tour of Alberta's nine mining pits

The facility consists of one very large mining pit, located just south of Aurora North, and now has a bitumen production capacity of 175,000 bbl/day. Operatorship was …

The Oil Sands Explained … in 10 minutes | Oil Sands Magazine

Alberta's oil sands. It's the world's third largest oil reserves, 161 billion recoverable barrels in the ground. They're are huge part of Canada's economy, contributing trillions to Canada's GDP over the past 50 years, generating billions annually in government taxes, revenues and royalties, supporting small and medium-sized businesses from coast …

Ranking Canada's top 40 miners: 2021 edition

Marilyn Scales | August 16, 2021 | 3:17 pm. Revenue of the top 40 climbs to $125B. Barrick Gold's Pueblo Viejo mine in the Dominican Republic. CREDIT: BARRICK GOLD. The Canadian mining industry …

Capital Expenditures

In 2021, the BHP mining company approved development of the $7.5 billion Jansen Stage 1 potash project in Saskatchewan. Production is anticipated to start in late 2026. Stone mining and quarrying decreased by 14% to $125 million. The mining and quarrying of sand, gravel, clay, and ceramic and refractory minerals increased by 2% to …

Canada's oil sands industry is taking a big hit

Mining bitumen strips away forest cover and topsoil, leaving acre upon acre of barren, black ground. The post-processing tailings are piped into vast ponds, which contain an "acutely toxic" mixture of water, sand, hydrocarbons, ammonia, acids, and heavy metals. The total volume of wastewater currently exceeds 4 billion gallons and counting, …

Athabasca Oil Sands Project, Canada

The steam assisted gravity drainage technology uses underground wells to inject steam into the oil sands deposits and collect the bitumen released by the heat. Map showing the extent of the Athabasca …

The Deep Toll of Tar Sands On Canada's Indigenous People

F ORT MCMURRAY, Canada — The first mine opened when Jean L'Hommecourt was a young , an open pit where an oil company had begun digging in the sandy soil for a black, viscous form of crude called bitumen.. She and her family would pass the mine in their boat when they traveled up the Athabasca River, and the fumes from its …

Surface Mining Techniques used in the Oil Sands

Depletion rates in the oil sands are in the order of 4% per year. That means the average mine life in the oil sands typically ranges from 20 to 40 years.That number is astounding considering that conventional wells can deplete as much as 20-40% per year, requiring constant drilling and on-going exploration for new reserves.

'They're destroying us': Indigenous communities fear toxic …

And when a global demand for oil spawned a rush to mine the region, the waters that had long sustained the Dene, Cree and Métis peoples became something to fear. "We don't drink from the ...

Minerals and Mining | Natural Resources Canada

More information. You can access more resources and information on Canada's Minerals and Mining Map from the Open Government Portal. To learn more about minerals and metals in Canada, consult the minerals and metals facts . If you have questions or comments, please contact us . Natural Resources Canada.

Bitumen | The Canadian Encyclopedia

Bitumen Extraction. In the 1920s, chemist Dr. Karl Clark of the Alberta Research Council developed the hot-water process, a method of extracting bitumen from oil sand. Clark's method is still used today. Oil sand, as mined commercially, contains an average of 10-12 per cent bitumen, 83-85 per cent mineral matter and 4-6 per cent water.

We need rare earth elements for a greener future, but …

A view of the remediation site for Tundra Mine, a former gold mine 240 kilometres northeast of Yellowknife. Demers says climate change can have an impact on reclamation after a mine shuts down ...

Ranked: Canada's top 40 miners

We use the Bank of Canada's exchange rate when converting U.S. to Canadian dollars: for 2020 the average was $1.00 for C$1.34. And because so many of our Top 40 miners are gold producers, for ...

The Largest Gold Mines in Canada: Map by Provinces

Kearl's total recoverable bitumen is estimated to be 4.6 billion barrels, all of which is located near the surface and will be recovered over the 50-year life of the project …

The fate of bitumen: an exploratory study of national

This study examines bitumen-related news articles published by the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, and the National Post, the top three Canadian newspapers by circulation (Agility 2021).It uses ...

Who are the Top 40? CMJ's 2014 edition

No.5 Teck Resources ($9,382.0 million) Teck Resources Limited is a Canadian metals and mining company that's widely known as one of Canada's largest diversified resources companies. The company began as Teck-Hughes Gold Mines Limited in 1913 to develop a gold discovery at Kirkland Lake, Ontario. In addition to its many …

Oil Sands Mining | Alberta Energy Regulator

Water-Use Intensity. Water use intensity refers to the amount of water used to produce one BOE. In 2021, oil sands mining used 198 million m 3 of nonsaline water (23 per cent of all nonsaline water allocated for oil sands mining) to produce 646 million BOE. For each BOE produced, oil sands mining used 1.9 barrels of nonsaline water (see the following figure).

3 Bitumen Properties, Production, and Transportation by …

SUMMARY The bitumen imported into the United States is produced from Canadian oil sands. The bitumen is both mined or recovered in situ by using ther- mally assisted techniques. Because a large share of the bitumen deposits is too deep for mining, in situ recovery accounts for an increasing per- centage of production.

Full article: Assessing the public interest in environmental assessment

In 2011, Canadian mining company Teck Resources submitted its proposal for a new bitumen mine (also known as oil sands or tar sands) called Frontier for approval in the Canadian province of Alberta. Footnote 1 With a capital cost of $21.5 billion ( Citation 2017 Canadian) and a forecast output of 260,000 barrels per day (bpd), the project would ...

Indigenous groups say Big Oil's pollution threatens their …

Huge trucks, some filled with oil sand and others awaiting filling, in a tar sands mine outside Fort McMurray, Alberta. From the mining operation, the sand is taken to a facility where the bitumen ...

Canada's natural resource wealth, 2021 (preliminary data)

In 2021, the value of energy resources rebounded (+67%) compared with the pre-pandemic value in 2019 ($459 billion). Crude bitumen ($479 billion) was Canada's top natural wealth contributor in 2021, making up 33% of the total resource value. Mineral resources recorded an increase in value of 73% for the year, up to $408 billion.

MGX sees huge lithium opportunity in Alberta oil sands

MGX shares were unchanged at $1.16 following the announcement on Thursday, June 14, 2018. The stock is trading in a 52-week range of $1.96 and 75 cents. "On any given day, oil sands producers in Alberta are probably producing more lithium feedstock at a very basic level than all of the lithium companies put together times ten," said MGX ...

How Things Work: Canada's Oil Sands

The portion of the deposit that is at a depth of more than 100 metres (328 feet) cannot be obtained with open-pit mining. Instead, steam as hot as 538ºC (1,000ºF) is injected into the sand, which reduces the bitumen's …

Mining | The Canadian Encyclopedia

Last Edited March 4, 2015. Mining is one of Canada's primary industries and involves the extraction, refining, and/or processing of economically valuable rocks and minerals. Mineral products (including gold, silver, iron, copper, zinc, nickel ) are critical to modern industrial society. Although mining has been key to Canadian settlement ...

Western Canadian Select Explained | Oil Sands Magazine

Synthetic Crude: Produced by upgrading bitumen, primarily from mining facilities. Diluted Bitumen (Dilbit): Produced by blending non-upgraded bitumen with condensate or diluent. Synbit: A blend of bitumen and synthetic crude oil. Although WCS is technically a blend of upgraded and non-upgraded bitumen, as well as conventional oil …

Key Companies Active in Alberta Oil Sands

sands assets are located in the Wood Buffalo region, where it recovers bitumen from mining and in situ operations. The company's mining operations in Alberta include: • Millennium Site – estimated total cost of $1.6 billion. • North Steepbank Site – estimated total cost of $1.6 billion.