Everyone knows the story of gold mining in Colorado — fortune-hunting ruffians working claims with pickaxes, guarding them with pistols and throwing back whiskey in mud-splattered mountain towns...
Cynthia Carroll, Aaron Regent, Marcelo Awad and Diego Hernández. Four top executives that at the beginning of this year were in the top position of the most important mining companies: Anglo...
The ministère des Ressources naturelles invites you to Québec Mines 2012 at the Québec City Convention Centre over the theme Of Mines and Men – A theme that focuses on the human aspect....
Lee McCollum had a basic supply-and-demand conundrum. As an executive at Progress Energy (now Duke Energy) in North Carolina, he had a growing demand for skilled-trades workers, and a visibly...
Over the years, the skills and talent of human resources (HR) practitioners have proven beneficial to companies, making the HR unit more strategic and a key factor to corporate success. As...
We may say we hate Mondays, but research suggests Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays are equally loathed. US investigators who looked at a poll of 340,000 people found moods were no worse on...
Do you use all the vacation time allotted to you by your workplace every year? If you don’t, you’re not alone. The results from Expedia.ca‘s 10th annual Vacation Deprivation survey reveal...
Startup businesses are often founded on leaps of faith and developed on the basis of hunches and snap decisions. But when it comes time to hire staff, acting on impulse often leads to blunders...
On a recent morning, in a spacious boardroom at the Mozilla office in Toronto, 25 girls experimented with writing code that would bring an animal to life on their laptops. The girls, who ranged in...
In what shouldn’t come as a surprise for those following the recent events related to the touted and long delayed $66 billion merger between diversified miner Xstrata (LON:XTA) and commodity...
