Around the North

Essar Steel Algoma reported positive earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of $54.6 million and a net loss of $7.2 million for the three-month period ending June 30, on shipments of 644,844 tons.

A new provincial advisory council designed to protect workers and improve workplace health and safety will have northern representation. Roy Slack, president of the underground mining contracting and engineering company Cementation Canada Inc.

Sudbury -based Ferus Industrial Contracting Ltd .

The Ontario government made $17.6 million in July exporting electricity to other provinces and the U.S. That number is based on export revenues of $47.3 million versus imports of $29.7 million.

The Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association (NOMA) calls a new $60 million provincial infrastructure fund “extremely beneficial to small communities” across the region.

Prodigy Gold said it's expanded its gold resources by more than 55 per cent at its Magino gold project near Wawa. Magino now contains an indicated resource of more than 5.8 million ounces of gold (grading 0.

The unions representing employees at the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission (ONTC) said they're out to put Northern Development and Mines Minister Rick Bartolucci out of a job.

Northern Iron has received a dewatering permit for its Griffith open-pit mine in northwestern Ontario. The Vancouver miner reported that the Ministry of Environment has issued a permit to dewater the North Pit to a maximum depth of 25 metres.

Coventry Resources expects to finalize a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its Cameron Gold Project by the end of October.

The federal government is providing the City of Elliot Lake with $53,500 to create an economic development and diversification strategy.