USA and Canada

Osisko’s billion dollar Canadian Malartic mine is the single largest gold reserve in production in Canada. General manager Denis Cimon talks about the challenges and achievements of this unique project.

The town of Malartic, Quebec is sitting on a gold mine—literally. To be more precise, it used to sit on a gold mine until part of the town was moved to facilitate mining operations. But more of that later.

Electronic systems provider API Technologies has completed the acquisition of UK-based C-MAC Aerospace Ltd for £20.95 million (approximately $33 million).

With facilities in Great Yarmouth and Milton Keynes, UK, C-MAC is a leading provider of high-reliability electronic systems, modules, and components to the defense, aerospace, space, industrial, and energy sectors.

Air Products today announced it has acquired advanced adsorption technology assets for its generated gases product lines from Xebec Adsorption, Inc.

Air Products has purchased the technology, intellectual property and know-how related to structured adsorbents, beaded adsorbents, and rotary valves from Xebec, a publicly-traded Canadian company specializing in adsorption technology headquartered in Blainville, Quebec. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Canadian engineering group SNC-Lavalin has signed a project management contract with Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) for the Delta Caribe Oriental Project, valued at C$133 million.

The project is in the Sucre State in northeastern Venezuela and consists of four offshore gas fields; Dragon, Patao, Mejillones and Rio Caribe, as well as a substantial onshore development for industry, named Complejo Industrial Gran Mariscal Ayacucho (CIGMA).

Jacques Perron, president and CEO of St Andrew Goldfields, talks about the company’s progress in bringing three mines into production in the Timmins area of Ontario, and prospects for further development.

The city of Timmins in northeast Ontario celebrates its centenary this year. Founded in 1912 by Noah Timmins after gold was found in the Porcupine Camp, it has since earned itself a reputation as the city with a heart of gold, lying within the Abitibi greenstone belt, the heart of gold production in Canada.

McGill University Health Centre is planning to deliver a new standard of healthcare at the Glen Site in Montreal. Robert Hamilton, senior director of Glen Campus Development and Imma Franco, associate director of planning tell Richard Halfhide how.

Keeping a brand popular for 100 years when the content is essentially the same year on year, and where there is no shortage of competitors, requires a level of commitment way beyond what is normally found, as Alan Swaby discovers.

Despite living in a mercenary world, there are often individual acts of altruism that take us by surprise and remind us that not everyone is fixated on self-aggrandizement. When these voluntary acts involve a whole city, that’s something special. And when it happens year after year… well, you get the picture.

Plans have been announced for the development of a new low-carbon power plant west of Edinburgh.

Summit Power Group, a Seattle-based developer of low-carbon electric power projects, has entered into an agreement with National Grid and Petrofac to seek funding for the development—which would include full-chain, commercial-scale carbon capture and storage—at the Port of Grangemouth on the Firth of Forth.

America's steel industry is leading manufacturing out of the recession, according to a recent report.

In his analysis Economic Impacts of the American Steel Industry, Dr. Timothy J. Considine, professor of energy economics, University of Wyoming, notes that "Every one job in the US steel industry supports seven jobs in the US economy, reflecting its ripple effect on employment."

For 2011, the report states, the American steel industry directly employed 150,700 people, and the multiplier effect means it supported more than 1,022,009 jobs.