Mining

The love-hate relationship between Essar Steel Algoma and Cliffs Natural Resources has flared again as the Sault Ste. Marie steel maker and the Cleveland iron-ore miner will be duking it out in court. Cliffs filed a US $90-million suit Jan.

Ontario Mine Rescue has been in talks to form a partnership with the Ontario Provincial Police's urban search and rescue teams.

Sudbury’s Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation (CEMI) is proposing a program to address the gap between good innovative ideas and finding ways to commercialize them for the mining industry.

The federal environmental assessment of Cliffs Natural Resources’ chromite project in the Ring of Fire has been terminated. The Cleveland-based iron ore miner notified the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA) on Jan.

Primero Mining Corp. has appointed Ernest Mast as its new president and chief operating officer, effective immediately. Mast is a metallurgical engineer and brings to Primero more than 25 years of international mining experience.

Goldcorp and Wabauskang First Nation have signed a collaboration agreement that paves the way for long-term economic benefits for the northwestern Ontario First Nation.

Betty-Ann Heggie, a former senior vice-president with Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. , will receive the 2015 Trailblazer Award from Women in Mining Canada .

First Nickel expects production at its Lockerby Mine in Sudbury for 2015 to be in line with its numbers from last year, despite recently cutting around 45 per cent of its workforce.

The legal fight over a staked access corridor to the Ring of Fire mineral deposits goes back into the courtroom in a few months. KWG Resources reported Jan.

Progress in the Ring of Fire – or the lack of it – was on the agenda of federal Natural Resources Minister Greg Rickford and provincial Northern Development and Mines Minister Michael Gravelle during a meeting in Ottawa, Jan. 27.