Around the North

A Manitoulin Island fish company is blaming the Ministry of Natural Resources for the loss of 40 jobs in Little Current and likely more over the next few years in transferring jobs to their other operations on the East Coast.

The Kirkland Lake Gazette is shutting down after eight years of operation, citing a shrinking local market and slowing conditions in the national industry. Owned by Temiskaming Printing Ltd, the weekly paper's final edition was Sept.7.

A proposed talc mine could create 80 jobs in Timmins within five years if about $12 million US can be raised for a feasibility study. Globex Mining Enterprises Inc.

Michipicoten First Nation, located 24 kilometres west of Wawa, is exploring the feasibility of developing an industrial park. FedNor has contributed $53,235 to the First Nation to enable them to hire a consulting firm to conduct a feasibility study.

The opening a new nickel mine in Montcalm Township by Falconbridge Ltd. could create 200 jobs by next year. Advanced exploration is underway at a site 70 kilometres west of Timmins, with the potential of bringing a mine into production in late 2002.

A provincial reviewer recommends not making any changes to a unique piece of taxation legislation that favours the Town of Marathon over the Township of Manitouwadge. Three Hemlo gold mines are required to pay about $2.

Michipicoten First Nation, located 24 kilometres west of Wawa, is exploring the feasibility of developing an industrial park. FedNor has contributed $53,235 to the First Nation to enable them to hire a consulting firm to conduct a feasibility study.

Pele Mountain Resources Inc. is concentrating its exploration efforts on further defining seven diamond-bearing areas, following a recent find on its property near Wawa.

Bearskin Airlines will be extending their service from Ottawa to Toronto Buttonville Municipal Airport in Markham in September.

Explorers Alliance Corp. has announced the discovery of a new zinc zone near the former Genex Mine near Timmins.