Around the North

MIRARCO Mining Innovation in Sudbury has a new president and CEO. The board of directors has appointed Vic Pakalnis to the position, effective July 1.

Ontario will perform safety blitzes of construction sites and surface mines across Ontario this summer.

The recovery of rare earths and uranium at the Eco Ridge Mine Rare Earths and Uranium Project will be vastly improved thanks to better processing methods, according to an updated preliminary economic assessment (PEA) from Pele Mountain Resources .

The Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre will acknowledge area innovators at the Sault Ste. Marie and Algoma Region (SSMARt) Awards event July 10.

Thunder Bay -Atikokan MPP Bill Mauro was passing out Northern Ontario Heritage Fund cheques in his riding this week for expanding local businesses. True Grit Consulting, a growing engineering and environmental firm, received $1 million.

KWG Resources has posted an updated resource calculation for its Big Daddy chromite deposit in the Ring of Fire area of the James Bay lowlands. At a 15 per cent cutoff, the measured resource is 29.

The Ontario government has awarded two contracts worth a combined $21.6 million to make improvements to Highway 11. E & E Seegmiller of Kitchener was the winning bidder on a $16.

The Ontario government plans to establish a special office in Elliot Lake to co-ordinate recovery efforts from a devastating and fatal mall collapse last month.

Daryl Skworchinski has resigned his post as manager of the Marathon Economic Development Corporation for a new job as Confederation College 's director of its eastern region.

Oakville's Bot Construction has been selected by the Ontario government as the successful bidder of the latest contract for the Highway 69 four-lane expansion.