Around the North

A renewed demand for exploration services has prompted Northern College to offer its surface diamond driller assistant common core program for the fifth time.

Canada's prospects for growth in 2010 are receiving greater confidence from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), revealing in a recent forecast it expects the country to hit 2.6 per cent this year. This is up from previous estimates of 2.

Goldcorp Canada is looking to spend up to $200 million over the next four years to extend the depth of its Hoyle Pond underground mine in the Timmins camp.

Noront Resources Ltd. (NOT:TSX) is supporting the actions of its exploration partner Marten Falls First Nation to block exploration in the Ring of Fire area of the James Bay Lowlands.

FNX Mining Co. Inc. has discovered wide, high-grade deposits of nickel, copper and precious metals at its Victoria property near Sudbury. The company plans to spend about $7.

Kodiak Exploration Ltd. (TSX:KXL) will begin a 4,000-metre diamond drilling program at its Milestone property in the Beardmore-Geraldton Gold camp. Drilling is expected to begin late next week and continue through March.

Laurentian University researchers are taking on a wide-ranging study to capture carbon dioxide from a Sudbury Xstrata smelter to use in making biodiesel and natural health products.

Porter Airlines founder Robert Deluce has been given a CEO Award of Excellence from the Canadian Public Relations Society of Toronto at their annual gala, Jan. 19.

Essar Steel Algoma is adding 40 seats to its apprenticeship program in searching for new electrical maintenance technicians, crane repair technicians and brick layers. Currently, the Sault Ste.

Ontario Power Generation (OPG) pleaded guilty and was fined $100,000 in a Dryden courtroom for an accident that burned a worker. On Jan.