Mining

Richmont Mines announced Renaud Adams in its new president and CEO, effective Nov.15. With 20 years of industry experience, Adams comes over from Primero Mining where he served in the same position.

The Detour Lake Gold Mining Project was a big winner at the 2014 Canadian Consulting Engineering Awards in Winnipeg, Oct. 23.

Pure Gold Mining is drilling new targets at its Madsen Gold Project in Red Lake. The company has a $4-million exploration program under way, which includes 9,000 metres of drilling.

A Timmins man, who for years championed the mining sector from the mayor’s seat, will now join the industry in the private sector.

Early next year, Sudbury -developed clean energy technology – with strong potential for the mining sector – is expected to be tested off the coast of Malta, a small European island nation in the Mediterranean Sea.

Cementation Canada will be on familiar turf later this year as the North Bay mine builder has landed a major contract to rehabilitate the shafts at a Goderich salt mine.

Critics of the province’s announcement in late August to establish an interim board for a Ring of Fire development corporation said it’s too little, too late.

George Ross, Ontario’s former deputy minister with the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines, started his new job with the Government of Yukon as its new deputy minister of the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources on Oct. 1.

Don Champagne’s first foray into entrepreneurship almost crash landed before it off the ground.

The Centre of Excellence in Mining Innovation (CEMI) has completed the first phase of testing for a protective canopy system designed to serve as a key enabler for rapid underground development.