Around the North

The Silver Shield Resources Corp. has signed an option agreement for a property located in the West Timmins Area.

Conquest Resources Ltd. has selected a contractor for the first phase of a two-phase drilling program at its Alexander Gold Project in Red Lake.

About 50 Attawapiskat First Nation members staged a peaceful protest outside the De Beers Canada office, Aug. 19. in a show of solidarity against the way the company is sharing diamond operation revenues.

Two young northwestern Ontario entrepreneurs have received funding Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (NOHFC) Young Entrepreneur Program to start their mobile businesses.

The company, which employs 320 staff, had two facilities in Sudbury and one in North Bay before this spring 2009. Now, the company has a third location 2,500-kilometres west of their main base in Sudbury.

A construction-ready affordable housing project in Cobalt has seen a $1.5 million in investment through partnerships from various levels of government.

With the intention to build two mid-sized wind turbines in Sudbury, the Gore Bay-based Canadian Shield Wind Power is hosting a pair of public information sessions on Aug. 25, 2009. The afternoon session, held at the Knight's Inn, will run from 2 p.m.

The Timmins-area Redstone nickel mine, which Liberty Mines Inc. put on care and maintenance in October 2008, is being scheduled to begin producing once more by August 24, 2009.

Laurentian's board of governors and the Laurentian University Staff Union (LUSU) have both voted to ratify a new three-year collective agreement, applying retroactively to July 1, 2009 and expiring on June 30, 2012.

FNX Mining is out to raise $125 million through bought deal financing. The Toronto junior copper-nickel miner, with operations in Sudbury, announced Aug.