Around the North

Three organizations are combining forces in late June to talk about safer environmental practices and land reclamation in mining.

Wallbridge Mining Company Ltd.'s plans for 2011 will focus on advancing key projects in Sudbury, according to a Jan. 20 release.

Quadra FNX Mining Ltd. has announced that in 2010, it produced 224 million pounds of copper and seven million pounds of nickel from its US, Canadian and Chilean mines.

Marc Boudreau, CEO of the Sudbury-based BESTECH, has appointed the new chair of Mining Innovation Rehabilitation and Applied Research Corporation (MIRARCO)'s new board of directors.

Laurentian University and Industry Minister Tony Clement are celebrating the appointment of three new Canada Research Chairs. Researchers Albrecht Shulte-Hostedde, Zhibin Ye, and Robert Schinke were awarded the positions, according to a Jan.

Women need not be afraid to enter politics, Greater Sudbury Mayor Marianne Matichuk told an audience at the Radisson Hotel on Jan. 18.

It is not business as usual as mines go deeper. This was the message Charles Graham, CAMIRO's managing director, said to mining suppliers at a Jan. 17 workshop in Sudbury.

Sudbury's Century Systems Technologies Inc. was acquired by CAE Inc., a Montreal-based company that provides simulation, modelling and training for the civil aviation industry and defence forces.

First Nickel's vice president of operations Gerry Bilodeau has plans to make the company into a mid-tier producer. The $69.8-million expansion project of the Lockerby Mine will be a stepping stone toward that goal.

North Bay's Redpath has won a major mine development and construction contract at Mount Lyell, Tasmania. The mining contractor's subsidiary, Redpath Australia, will carry out the three-year contract.