Around the North

Two landmark businesses in North Bay's downtown were destroyed by fire.

Brigus Gold's vice president and chief operating officer, Richard Allen, has left the company after joining in 2010.

J.S. Redpath Holdings Inc. has acquired Deilmann-Haniel Shaft Sinking GmbH of Dortmund, Germany. Deilmann-Haniel has a120-year history of providing high quality specialty mining services to the German and European mining industries.

Detour Gold received the federal stamp of approval for its namesake gold project, 180 kilometres northeast of Cochrane. The company announced Dec.

Prodigy Gold's revised scoping study for a Wawa area gold project is promising more ounces and more production from a proposed open pit operation.

A First Nation got its day in court to stop a gold exploration play in northeastern Ontario. Wahgoshig First Nation petitioned an Ontario Superior Court in Toronto, Dec. 20, to stop gold exploration drilling at Solid Gold's Lake Abitibi property.

Ontario's Environmental Commissioner said there is paralysis by analysis on the provincial government's part in failing to implement the controversial 2009 policy on woodland caribou conservation.

Pele Mountain Resources has raised $2.4 million for exploration and development activities at its Eco Ridge Mine Rare Earths and Uranium Project in Elliot Lake. The company announced Dec.

Dr. Roger Strasser, dean of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM), has been appointed a member of the Order of Australia. The investiture took place during a ceremony at NOSM's east campus in Sudbury on Dec.

Solid Gold Resources is continuing its drilling program in the Lake Abitibi area following a court hearing in Toronto Dec. 20.