Around the North

The official inauguration of Collège Boréal's new $15-million Timmins campus will take place alongside a celebration of the school's 15-year anniversary on Oct. 13, 2009. Beginning at 3:30 p.m.

Having acquired the Timmins-area Croxall Property in June 2009, Temex Resources Corp. (TSX-V: TME) has intersected gold mineralization, including visible gold, from its first drilled hole.

With construction at its Young-Davidson gold project 60 kilometres west of Kirkland Lake due to begin in 2010, Northgate Minerals Corporation (TSX: NGX) has announced bought-deal financing for gross proceeds of $100 million.

Nickel City Steel Limited, a Sudbury-based manufacturer of steel and plate work components, is growing and moving from the city's south end to a larger location in the Walden Industrial Park.

Vancouver-based MPH Ventures (TSX-V: MPS) has entered into an agreement to purchase a full ownership stake of three contiguous gold exploration properties 20 kilometres west of Timmins.

Northern College has seen a 47-per-cent increase in its first-year enrolment for the fall semester, the highest such increase among all Ontario colleges. The average increase in college confirmations over last year is seven per cent province-wide.

Mike Holmes, the famed contractor/host of HGTV's Holmes on Homes, will be speaking at two shows, Oct. 18 at the Sudbury Living Lifestyle & Home Show.

Vale Inco's plans to resume production in Sudbury is “dangerous,” according to a release issued Sept. 4 by the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL).

Marathon PGM Corporation today announced the second set of results from the 2009 campaign at the Marathon PGM-Cu Project. The highlight of the drill project include a hole that intersected 67.7 metres of 0.47 grams per tonne (g/t) of gold and 0.

The number of deals announced in the global metals industry during the second quarter of 2009 declined from the first quarter and remained far below the pace seen in 2008.