MINES

EDITORIAL

Investing in Quebec 40 years of Mines Seleine

Quebec has 21 active mines and many projects at the development stage. This issue of Resources Mines & Industry (RMI) takes a look at these mines and several mineral resource development projects. One...

MINERAL EXPLORATION AND MINING

Mines andmining projects inQuebec

Nearly thirty metals and mineral substances are extracted in Quebec, making it Canada’s most diversified province. According to the Institut de la Statistique du Québec (ISQ), the value of metal and...

MINERAL POLICY

Quebec’s Plan for the Development of Critical and Strategic Minerals: A second year confirming Quebec’s attractiveness and leadership

According to the World Bank and the International Energy Agency, the global energy and technological transition to a low-carbon economy will generate strong demand for critical and strategic minerals...

SALT

Prospector’s Corner

Salt is present in our everyday lives. It is produced by boiling brine, evaporating seawa-ter or mining rock salt (halite) underground. A lack of salt causes chemical imbalances in the human body,...

GEOLOGY

Magdalen Islands Geological history of the archipelago and its salt deposits

Evaporites containing salt deposits form through evaporation and chemical concentration over geologically long periods of time. The salts precipitate from saltwater in arid environments where...

HISTORY AND SOCIETY

Mines Seleine History of the discovery and development of Quebec’s first salt mine

It took more than a decade of planning and development work to bring Quebec’s first salt mine into production. Resources Mines & Industry (RMI) is proud to highlight 40 years of the Mines Seleine’s...

PORTRAITS

40 Mines Seleine years of history

With great pride, the Resources Mines & Industry (RMI) team celebrates the 40th anniversary of Mines Seleine through a series of interviews with former and current employees and a photographic montage...