Around the North

Essar Steel Algoma is offering voluntary retirement to the most senior of its 3,500 employees at its Sault Ste. Marie plate and sheet mill.

This year's Ontario Exploration and Geoscience Symposium in Sudbury will have an environmental bent to it.

Diamond drilling at the the South Claims joint venture held equally between Kirkland Lake Gold Inc. and Queenston Mining Inc. has expanded gold mineralization deeper into the property. Four holes of the five holes returned gold showings, including 1.

More than 40 senior mining industry executives from across Canada met in Ottawa Nov. 18 as part of the Mining Association of Canada's annual meetings with federal officials to push for government change.

With a mine under development in the Timmins region, the Colorado-based Apollo Gold Corporation has emerged from the third quarter with a net income of $500,000 compared to $2.1 million for the same period in 2007.

Results from the latest airborne geophysical surveys conducted by the Timmins Economic Development Corporation's Discover Abitibi Initiative have been released.

More than half a dozen new programs have been announced for Cambrian College's 2009 academic year, covering a gamut of different business and industry sectors.

More than 125 operators and members of the tourism industry in Sudbury are set to discuss the city's long-term strategy for the sector at the Greater Sudbury Tourism Forum Nov.

Nominations are open for the Thunder Bay Chamber of Commerce Business Awards. The 15th annual gala takes place April 18 at the Valhalla Inn. The awards are open to any person or business who is a chamber member as of Dec.

An Ontario Realty Corporation (ORC) building in Thunder Bay is the recipient of the 2008 Earth Award given by the Building Owners and Management Association (BOMA).