Around the North

Houston Lake Mining Inc., a Sudbury-based junior exploration firm targeting gold, PGE and rare metal deposits across Ontario, has turned up gold at its West Cedartree Gold Project, southeast of Kenora.

Less than a year after signing a partnership agreement, Collège Boréal and 5th Wheel Training Institute are praising their success in jointly offering education programs in transportation and heavy equipment.

Tightening times in the financial market is putting the squeeze on PhosCan Chemical Corp., whose Martison Phosphate Project north of Hearst will no longer begin production in 2012.

Hundreds of Iroquois Falls residents packed a meeting hall this week to vent their anger over the potential sale of three local dams by AbitibiBowater.

Queenston Mining Inc. has announced the best intersection ever reported on its Upper Beaver property east of Kirkland Lake, marking the potential for economic mineralization below its recently announced resource.

Long-time staffer Fred Gibbons has been appointed as interim president at Northern College, following the departure of former president Michael Hill.

Just in time for Christmas, Laurentian University has officially unveiled its new $19-million "green" School of Education. The three-storey, 6,690-square-metre building will house students, faculty and staff from the education program.

Mining industry downturns have provided some opportunities to Kirkland Lake Gold.

Thunder Bay is building its own bio-economic base with a research centre at Lakehead University.

Northern NDP politicians are demanding government action be taken to deal with the crisis in Northern Ontario's forestry industry.