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Now that things are looking up – how healthy is the Latin American mining sector?
Although metal prices tanked this past year, mid-August saw prices go up, and the growing sentiment that worldwide financial storms are finally letting up was reflected in several markets.Still, the global crisis has taken its toll, especially on countries whose livelihoods are supported by mining, oil and gas development. Financial
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Since its’ inception in 2001, Bear Creek Services LLC has grown into a unique oilfield consulting and service company.  This diverse and respected Louisiana-based company began as Bear Creek Environmental Systems with “a small fleet of vacuum trucks and a saltwater disposal facility in Bryceland, Louisiana” and today offers a ...
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The True Energy Trust is an oil and gas exploration and production trust based in Calgary, Alberta.'True is powered by a diverse asset base, focused on sustainable growth both in its people and in its properties. True has a significant multi-year drilling inventory of locations in Alberta, Saskatchewan and British ...
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“I have been in the power system business and specialised in hydro generation for 18 years” Christian Roy, President of power systems specialist Hemi Controls says.In fact Roy has worked in hydrogenation and power systems since he left school.“I then worked at system design and implementation for a large international ...
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April O’Brien has been working for Highland Helicopters since 1990. The family owned company has been servicing the Alberta, British Columbia and Northwest Territories’ airways with its fleet of 43 light and intermediateturbine helicopters since the company began back in 1959. “Highland Helicopters is a bit of a rarity” O’Brien ...
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Fairwinds International is a Louisiana-based ‘fullservice company specializing in engineering, project management, consulting, and inspection services to the offshore and onshore oil and gas industry for all aspects of the assigned project.’Bill Napier, Fairwinds’ founding President and CEO, has spent 15 years building the company from its inception in 1994, ...
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General Kinematics Corporation is a privately-held company established in 1960 by the Musschoot family in Crystal Lake outside of Chicago, Illinois.“We have developed and are known for our expertise in vibratory energy and its application in the conveyance and conversion of material. We are the leading supplier of systems for ...
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In its five year existence Silver Wheaton Corporation has become the largest silver streaming company in the world. ‘Forecast 2009 sales are 16 to 18 million ounces of silver and 17,000 ounces of gold, for total sales of 17 to 19 million silver equivalent ounces, growing to approximately 30 million ...
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Marcotte Mining Machinery Inc., of Sudbury, Ontario, has enjoyed 30 years of continuous operation since its inception in 1979. It is part of engineering product solutions company The Timberland Group and has become a tried and tested supplier of mining equipment and a successful piece of the parent group’s overall ...
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“We supply every service that an operating mine provides. The only difference between us and an operating mine is that we don’t own the resource” Allan Flemming, President and COO of KMC Mining says.“We do all of the preparation work, removing of the reclamation materials, we do the overburden removal, ...
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