Mining

By Adelle Larmour Finding ways to reduce costs to remain competitive was the thrust behind the keynote speech that opened the technical program at the 13th Mine Ventilation Symposium on June 14 at Laurentian’s Fraser Auditorium.

The picketers were gone from the road to Vale's Copper Cliff Smelter in Sudbury less than an hour after results of a July 8 contract ratification vote were announced by United Steelworkers Local 6500 leaders.

Both Vale and Sudbury's Steelworkers Local 6500 are tight-lipped about the details of a tentative five-year deal reached between the two parties July 4.

Having reached an agreement over employees discharged through the strike, Vale and Sudbury's United Steelworkers (USW) Local 6500 have announced a tentative deal has been reached on a new five-year contract.

Mediated talks have broken off between Vale and the striking Steelworkers Local 6500 in Sudbury, despite “having a deal at hand,” according to John Pollesel, general manager of Vale's Ontario operations.

The threat that Chinese-produced nickel pig iron poses to Sudbury's nickel producers is overblown, according to renowned mining analyst Raymond Goldie.

A community-industry cleanup effort of Elliot Lake mine tailings has received a prestigious national award.

Three of the eight awards in the Ontario Mining Association's (OMA) video contest So You Think You Know Mining? were presented to young budding Northern Ontario artists at the organization's annual conference on June 15th.

With the closure of Xstrata’s Kidd Metallurgical site having officially begun May 1, Timmins’ municipal and union officials are working to determine how to survive beyond what has already been an enormous blow.

For many North Shore communities, mining and mineral exploration could be a salvation from the devastation caused by the wave of forest mill closures.