Mining

North American Palladium (NAP) is pleased on the progress of its production ramp up from the lower Offset Zone utilizing the new shaft infrastructure at its Lac des Iles palladium mine (LDI) in Northern Ontario.

Rubicon Minerals reported it has completed sinking the shaft at its Phoenix Gold Project near Red Lake in northwestern Ontario. In a Feb. 11 release, the company said the shaft sinking was completed in mid-December down to a depth of 730 metres.

Cliffs Natural Resources is facing a shareholder insurrection as it makes moves to reel in spending.

A junior miner and a mining services company were heavily fined for building an illegal exploration camp in the Ring of Fire.

The Ontario government said it’s not taking sides in asking to participate in a court appeal launched by Cliffs Natural Resources over access issues to the Ring of Fire.

The Ontario government wants to officially weigh in an upcoming appeal launched by Cliffs Natural Resources to overturn a provincial tribunal’s decision that denied the mining company overland access to its Ring of Fire mineral deposit.

Swiss-based automation firm, ABB Inc. announced it has completed the upgrades at Vale’s Clarabelle mill in Sudbury . In a Feb.

Northern College is experiencing another successful milestone in its legacy of miner training: nearly all recent graduates of its hard rock miner common core program are working, two-thirds of which have found employment in the Kirkland Lake area.

Goldcorp is undertaking a new kind of mining designed to improve the health and safety record across its operations.

Around two billion years ago an asteroid or comet approximately 10 to 15 kilometres in diameter collided with what is now the Sudbury basin. When it entered Earth's orbit it was travelling at a speed of around 36,000 kilometres per hour.