Mining

Sudbury's business community celebrated the career and legacy of a man who risked his own life many times for the sake of his business, at a retirement party for Robert Lipic, June 23.

A man has been killed at St Andrew Goldfields ’ (SAS) Holt property located about 60 kilometres east of Timmins. The worker, who was employed with contractor Orbit Garant Drilling , was killed when he was struck by a tree.

Glencore’s Kidd Operations in Timmins has received the 2014 Tom Peters Memorial Reclamation Award. The award was presented during the seventh annual Ontario Mine Reclamation Symposium and Field Trip, held June 17 and 18 in Peterborough.

Harte Gold , which is exploring near the Hemlo Gold Camp, has raised $1.35 million in funding through a private placement. The company has offered a private placement of six million units and four million flow-through units of the company.

Rubicon Minerals reports it’s on schedule to finish construction and start production at its Phoenix Gold underground mine in Red Lake by mid-2015.

An Ontario Divisional Court in Toronto has heard an appeal by Cliffs Natural Resources over gaining access to its Ring of Fire chromite deposit.

The first report from the new Northern Policy Institute echoes a plan set forward by junior miner KWG Resources in 2010, that the Ring of Fire's infrastructure should be developed under a port authority model.

Wallbridge Mining has started delivering the first shipments of ore from its Broken Hammer open-pit mine in Sudbury to Northern Sun’s Redstone Mill in Timmins.

The provincially-created Northern think-tank has released a Ring of Fire report suggesting that the creation of a port authority is the most prudent way to gain overland access to the mineral-rich James Bay lowlands.

Kirkland Lake’s Nordex Explosives announced it has been contacted by the Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation (CEMI) in Sudbury about the potential to collaborate on deep mining projects.