Mining

Sudbury health and safety activist Homer Seguin has died at the age of 79.

Achieving economic self-sufficiency is the driving force behind an entrepreneurial-minded First Nation corporation in northwestern Ontario.

To explain the benefits of helping a company become a leaner organization, Guy Chartrand tells the story of the southern Ontario production manager. The production manager, who worked at a manufacturing plant, operated out of two separate buildings.

Can tiny microbes help clean up tailings left over from decades of mining and smelting? Nadia Mykytczuk thinks so, and there is potential to recover billions of dollars’ worth of metals in the process.

Designing and developing a niche product for the diamond drilling market has Gord McLaren of North Bay on the move.

As it enters a national business plan competition, a group of business students at the University of Waterloo is looking north for inspiration, collaborating with a Sudbury mining supply and services company poised to enter the Asian market.

There’s such little awareness amongst German companies of the underground mining capabilities in Canada that one German company recently declared, “There’s no underground mining in Canada.

Before Nick Joyce arrived in Sudbury last month, the city’s famed mineral exploration history was just something he had learned about in the classroom. But a visit to the city brought the story to life.

The Ontario Mining Association’s board of directors has appointed Kelly Strong as the new chairman of the Ontario Mining Association (OMA). Strong currently serves as vice-president of Vale’s Ontario and UK Operations.

The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency has commenced a federal environmental assessment for the proposed Victor Diamond Mine Extension Project, 100 kilometres west of Attawapiskat First Nation.