Around the North

The Ministry of Labour has laid nine charges against Vale under the Occupational Health and Safety Act, stemming from the June 2011 deaths of Jason Chenier and Jordan Fram at Stobie Mine.

Robert Deluce, founder, president and CEO of Porter Airlines, will be bestowed with an honorary doctorate at Laurentian University’s convocation ceremony on June 6.

The province has renewed a mining lease held by Flag Resources within the Wolf Lake Old Growth Forest Reserve, despite public protest.

Ursa Major Minerals shareholders have approved an arrangement that would see the exploration company merge with nickel-PGM exploration company Prophecy Platinum Corp. Shareholders voted in favour of the previously arranged plan by 98.

Sudbury is poised for growth, with 4,000 jobs expected in the city over the next four years, according to a new report by BMO Capital Markets Economics.

Serpent River First Nation is seeking a judicial review from the Superior Court of Ontario for the Spine Rd. Development planned by the City of Elliot Lake.

Laurentian University’s lunabot-building team placed seventh in the NASA Lunabotics Competition, held May 21-26 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Laurentian earned 419 points for its efforts.

Sudbury-based company Fuller Industrial has sold an arm of its company, Fuller Western Rubber Lining Ltd., to Corrosion and Abrasion Solutions Ltd. (CASL).

A Calgary-based junior miner working ground near Sudbury will be allowed to continue exploring for gold and copper in an area designated as old growth forest reserve.

Nickel giant Vale is looking to hire more than 40 engineers for its Sudbury operations, in addition to geologists, geophysicists, supervisors, miners, surface plant operators and trades people.