Around the North

Brigus Gold Corp.'s exploration drilling at its Black Fox Complex near Matheson have returned high-grade assays. The most recent results, a press release states, confirm a new gold zone.

First Nickel plans to resume production at its Lockerby mine in Sudbury, aiming to produce 10 million pounds of nickel and seven million pounds of copper per year by mid-2012.

A former elementary school in Sudbury will host a new March of Dimes care home, creating employment for 29 people.

The bitterness over the looming passage of new provincial forest tenure legislation still lingers.

An annual Crown wood allocation of 149,000 cubic metres of white birch, poplar, spruce, pine and fir has been awarded to the Whitesand First Nation, near Armstrong in northwestern Ontario.

The Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities (FONOM) is rallying the troops to speak with “one voice” in having a greater say on provincial legislation and resource sharing.

Dryden has posted a new online business directory. The Dryden Development Corporation (DDC) and the Northwest Business Centre have created the directory to provides visitors with information on places to eat, stay and explore.

Probe Mines announced the completion of a brokered private placement to raise funds of $25 million toward gold exploration in northeastern Ontario.

A green tech start-up company is adding forest biomass to its fuel mix to produce syngas at a pilot plant in Sault Ste. Marie.

Essar Steel Algoma and Ohio-based miner Cliffs Natural Resources reached a deal on its iron ore contract for 2011.