A Syncrude employee operating an excavator was killed Sunday at the Aurora mine site 70 kilometres north of Fort McMurray. Emergency crews were called to the incident at around 5 p.m., Syncrude ...

The worker could not get out of the excavator’s fully submerged cab and drowned. At the time, the company said the death happened around 5 p.m. at Syncrude’s Aurora mine.

When Robin Hebbard became a heavy equipment operator and simulator trainer at Syncrude's Aurora mine in 2007, she was one of only a handful of women on site. "You were lucky to see anywhere ...

This award reflects an outstanding safety performance in the 2023 calendar year with a reportable injury rate of zero and ongoing contributions to improving the mining industry’s safety record.

The grim news came as questions arose over how quickly Syncrude Canada reported that the waterfowl had landed in the tailings pond at the company's Aurora mine site, 485 kilometres northeast of ...

But recruitment experts for the trades in Alberta say there's still work to be done as the trend at the Aurora oilsands mine is not indicative of the industry as a whole. Women accounted for 20.4 per ...