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The Guardian   10 February 2020   Canada  
<p>Scientists in Canada have announced the discovery of a new species of dinosaur closely related to Tyrannosaurus rex that strode the plain of North America about 80m years ago. Thanatotheristes degrootorum – Greek for “reaper of death” – is thought to be ...
Fox News   26 November 2019   Canada  
<p>A newly discovered dinosaur skull has shaken paleontologists' assumptions to the core, throwing a wrench into the idea that all dinosaurs had symmetrical faces.<br />The fossilized skull of the Styracosaurus was unearthed and researchers were surprised ...
CBC News   01 October 2019   Canada   Yellowknife  
<p>The area, described as recently as 2004 in a Yellowknifer newspaper article as "a wide open area full of dunes, ponds and weathered rocks," is no longer anything of the sort.<br />Instead, it's a flattened-out and largely hard-packed surface. There are ...
Montreal Gazette   05 September 2019   Canada   Montreal  
<p>They handle 118,000 vehicles per day, are surrounded by an ancient river and can pump out the equivalent of two Olympic-sized swimming pools of water daily.<br />The tunnels that run under the city&rsquo;s downtown core, next to m&eacute;tro stations, pedestrian ...
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<p>The municipality of Summerland has accepted a contract for detail design work at the Isintok Dam.<br />The design work, at a cost of $123,467, is for an outlet pipe at the dam.<br />The request for proposals closed on March 21 and the contract was awarded ...
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CBC News   20 February 2018   Canada   British Columbia  
<p>Calgary-based mining company Margaux Resources has announced a plan to clean up old tailings sites by using new mining technologies to extract the remaining minerals.</p> <p>Margaux has partnered with the Salmo Watershed Sreamkeepers Society &mdash; a non-profit ...
Filed under: Mining News
CBC News   29 January 2018   Canada   Vancouver Island  
<p>An emergency operation centre has opened in the Regional District of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island after a landslide occurred in Lantzville and flooding hit Parksville and Whiskey Creek.</p> <p>On Sunday night Nanaimo Search and Rescue responded to several ...
MINING.com   01 January 2018   Canada   Ontario  
<p>December 31, 2017 marked the end of an era for one of Canada's oldest and most prolific gold mines.</p> <p>After 107 years of operations, Porcupine Gold Mines&rsquo; Dome underground mine in Timmins, Ontario, ceased operations due to aging infrastructure, ...
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Northern Ontario Business   07 September 2017   Canada   Ontario  
<p>The start-up of New Gold&rsquo;s Rainy River gold mine in northwestern Ontario is only weeks away.</p> <p>The Toronto-based mid-tier miner is putting the finishing touches on the $515 million spent this year to carve out the open pit, dig the tailings area, ...
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The construction index   09 December 2016   Canada   Americas  
<p>Carillion Canada subsidiary Rokstad has been named as the preferred bidder for a high-voltage transmission line project worth approximately &pound;120m.</p> <p>Rokstad was acquired by Carillion in 2014.</p> <p>The contract for Manitoba Hydro involves the ...
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