Around the North

The Sudbury-based TESC Contracting Company has been awarded a $22-million contract to build a new 236-bed residence at Laurentian University's local campus. The contract was awarded to TESC, in conjunction with its design partner, J.L.

Export Development Canada (EDC) has offered a US$1-billion loan to Brazilian mining giant Vale for spending related to Canadian exports and “future Canadian procurement in its international operations.

With a successful US$150 million public stock offering, Northgate Minerals is now fully funded to build its Young-Davidson gold mine 60 kilometres west of Kirkland Lake.

Liberty Mines Inc., which is producing from its Redstone and McWatters nickel mines near Timmins, has increased production by 69 per cent in the third quarter of 2010.

Nine Austrian clean-technology companies arrived in North Bay on Sept. 28 for a special networking event to engage municipal and business leaders.

Oakville's Bot Construction has been awarded a $62-million contract for a second major expansion along Highway 11-17 between Thunder Bay and Nipigon.

The Far North Act was passed into law at Queen's Park by the McGuinty government and was received not with sustained applause from Northerners, but with anger and condemnation.

Ontario's Environmental Commissioner said the mining industry used claim staking to “circumvent” the McGuinty's government plan to protect half the Far North and the boreal forest from development. In his annual report, released Sept.

The unsuccessful forestry business and community applicants who were in the mix to get a share of Ontario's unused Crown forest will be told one by one this fall that they are no longer in the running.

Golden Chalice Resources Inc., a Vancouver-based junior exploration company, has begun a preliminary environmental baseline study on its Langmuir Nickel project, 35 kilometres southeast of Timmins.