Mining

A murky plan by the provincial government to rehabilitate and re-open a former northwestern Ontario open pit mine for industrial use has a Thunder Bay iron ore miner pondering whether to move his processing operation elsewhere.

The Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation (CEMI) has added fresh blood to the upper echelons of its roster, with the appointment of mining veteran Doug Morrison as deputy director, effective Nov. 1.

Sudbury-area's Stanley Appleton Manufacturing Corp. provides in-house design, build, testing and certification of rollover and falling object protective structures

The Kirkland Lake Adams Mine is still an environmentally sound site for landfill, said Gordon McGuinty, businessman and former owner of the open-pit mine in northeastern Ontario.

With plans to bring its Kirkland Lake-area project into production by 2011, Armistice Resources is moving aggressively on its McGarry Gold Project.

With mining exploration and development reaching a fever pitch in the Kirkland Lake area, the region’s service and supply firms are reaping the rewards with heightened profits and plans to expand.

New industrial life may be breathed into an abandoned open pit mine in northwestern Ontario.

A remote Northern Ontario First Nation is extending a formal invitation for mining-related companies to do business with their community in the James Bay Lowlands.

Construction is potentially months away from starting on Canada’s largest undeveloped gold resource as Detour Gold Corporation gears up for its Detour Lake open pit mine, 180 kilometres northeast of Timmins.

Vale CEO Roger Agnelli accused the United Steelworkers of America being conflict-oriented towards the Brazilian miner in their recent year-long strike at their nickel mining and processing operations in Sudbury and Port Colborne. The union voted 75.