Mining

In the knowledge world, facts are the new coins. Those in the mining sector and the allied service and supply fields will get the facts when they attend a trade show in Timmins on May 19-20. The show’s theme is A New Decade in Mining.

Northern Ontario mining suppliers may be able to tap into global mining projects, including a $2-billion mine construction project in Chile, as a result of the recently announced merger between Sudbury miner FNX Mining Company Inc .

Two companies with strong Sudbury ties are working together to extend their influence and reach in parts of the United States market, with Cast Nevada Resource Inc. having signed a distributor agreement with Mining Technologies International Inc.

A man from North Carolina is standing on the north bank of the frozen Ogoki River in Northern Ontario. His job is to find bedrock that could support a bridge foundation for a Class 3 heavy-haul railway.

An abundant supply of cheap power will decide whether northwestern Ontario lands any of the facilities to process chromite ore when a proposed McFaulds Lake mine opens in 2016.

North American Palladium (TSX-PDL) has started recalling laid-off employees and hiring new ones to resume operations this summer at its shuttered Lac des Iles mine in northwestern Ontario.

The nearly 290 office, technical and professional workers at Vale Inco's Sudbury operations represented by United Steelworkers (USW) Local 2020 have voted 84.5 per cent to ratify a three-year offer put forward by the company.

Tito Martins sits back in his chair ready for the barrage of questions thrown at him from the media, extending his arms ahead and cupping his hands toward himself as if to say “Come on, I'm ready for you.

Vale Inco president and CEO Tito Martins seems puzzled as he speaks about the failure of recent negotiations with Steelworkers Local 6500 and the subsequent rejection of the company's contract offer by union members.

Sault Ste. Marie will never be confused or compared with the robust mining camps such as Sudbury, Timmins and Kirkland Lake – at least not yet.