Around the North

With construction underway at its $1.2-billion Detour Lake project, Detour Gold is planning on a $14-million exploration program for the site in 2011.

Attawapiskat Catering Limited Partnership has secured the contract for catering and operating services at the De Beers Canada Victor Mine site, taking over from ESS Support Services.

An information and communications technology project designed to provide a comprehensive geographic information system for the Timmins region is the recipient of $1 million in FedNor funding.

East Ferris Mayor Bill Vrebosch has been acclaimed to the Rural Ontario Municipal Association (ROMA) board of directors for Zone 9. ROMA is an affiliate of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario.

NDP FedNor critic and Nickel Belt MP Claude Gravelle of Sudbury is mad at the Harper government for eliminating an hour of debate and delaying the vote on Bill C-309, the bill to make FedNor an independent, stand-alone economic development agency for

Sault College is partnering with home improvement celebrity Mike Holmes and his Holmes Group in introducing a new home inspection technician program.

The mayor of Ignace believes his community has been “abandoned” by the Ontario government in getting the local forestry industry back on its feet.

The Sault Ste. Marie Chamber of Commerce is set to stage its annual Women in Business Breakfast on Feb. 15 at the Algoma's Water Tower Inn.

The Extractive Metallurgy Group at Xstrata Process Support (XPS) has successfully produced the first metallic product from Canadian chromite, according to a Feb. 2 press release.

Sudbury is the front-runner to host the ore processing from a chromite deposit in Northern Ontario's Ring of Fire. Cliffs Natural Resources released a much-anticipated Feb. 4 project description of its Cliffs Chromite project in the James Bay region.