Around the North

Magma Metals has appointed David Constable as a non-executive director of the company, effective Dec. 1.

The Town of Hearst is working to attract clean technology companies to the area to promote local economic development.

Canadian corporations’ operating profits sat virtually unchanged through the third quarter of 2010 at $61.5 billion, according to a report by Statistics Canada. Profits in the mining and quarrying industry dropped 3.7 per cent to $1.7 billion.

West Kirkland Mining Inc. is expanding its land position west of the world-famous gold camp of Kirkland Lake with option agreements for two key properties.

Northern Ontario’s mining supply and services companies will be able to learn about sales opportunities in Latin America and Saskatchewan through a series of seminars to be held Nov. 29 – Dec. 2.

Queenston Mining, which is exploring a series of properties in the Kirkland Lake camp, has completed a $20.1-million private placement financing first announced Nov. 8.

Infrastructure Ontario and the Ministry of the Attorney General announced that the construction consortium of Plenary Justice Thunder Bay LP has signed a contract to design, build, finance and maintain the new Thunder Bay Consolidated Courthouse.

Michael Gravelle, Ontario’s Minister of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry, announced an $81-million initiative to bring a state-of-the-art backbone fibre optic network to 26 Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) communities in Ontario’s Far North.

AbitibiBowater said it has reached a deal with the Ontario government on pensions that will help the pulp and newsprint maker to emerge from bankruptcy.

KWG Resources has notified Cliffs Natural Resources that it will accept its offer of $0.19 per share of all of its shares of Spider Resources. In a Nov.