Around the North

Production grades and figures from Brigus Gold Corp.'s Black Fox Mine 75 kilometre east of Timmins are expected to rise through the third quarter, according to company estimates.

Clearlogic, a Timmins-based consulting firm, is looking to market a new human resources management program with a little help from the province.

Detour Gold Corporation, whose Detour Lake open pit mine project sits 180 kilometres northeast of Timmins, has entered into a purchase agreement with Concord-based Toromont Industries Limited.

Algoma University's new president, Richard Myers, will be installed Sept. 18. Myers will be the ninth president of the Sault Ste. Marie institution.

Construction has started on the first phase of Nipissing University's active learning and physical health research innovation centre in North Bay.

Aecon Construction and Materials Ltd. has been awarded a $16.1-million contract to improve part of Highway 11 near Earlton.

Thunder Bay industrial contractor Venshore Mechanical is receiving $1 million from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund (NOHFC) to grow its pipe fabrication business.

A Montana base metal miner is acquiring a future PGM-copper mine on the north shore of Lake Superior. Stillwater Mining has entered into an agreement to acquire all outstanding shares of Marathon PGM in a 50-50 split of cash and Stillwater shares.

Northern College will officially lift the veil from its Centre of Excellence for Trades and Technology with a grand opening at its Porcupine campus in Timmins on Oct. 27. A free community barbecue will precede the 1 p.m.

The De Beers Canada Victor Mine's efforts in Northern Ontario are being recognized at the 2010 Ontario Business Achievement Awards, to be held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on Sept. 20.