Mining

Not everyone got what they wanted, but the long-awaited changes to Ontario’s 100-year-old Mining Act should go a long way toward minimizing conflict on the land on mineral exploration issues.

A Thunder Bay mineral symposium of the Matawa First Nations tribal council in February could be a raucous affair. The aggressive push by Cliffs Natural Resources and Canada Chrome to develop a $1.

FNX Mining Co. Inc. has discovered wide, high-grade deposits of nickel, copper and precious metals at its Victoria property near Sudbury. The company plans to spend about $7.

Noront Resources Ltd. (NOT:TSX) is supporting the actions of its exploration partner Marten Falls First Nation to block exploration in the Ring of Fire area of the James Bay Lowlands.

Ask Peter Matusch about his experience of spending 31 years as the head of CCM Group of Companies, and he smiles, shrugs, and quietly says it’s simply all about hard work.

David Wood didn’t choose a career in assessing rock fall hazards, it’s a specialty he sort of tumbled into. As an engineering geologist with 30-years experience in rock mechanics, his consulting work can be a 24/7 job.

They may no longer be Independent Nickel, but Sudbury junior exploration mavens Richard Murphy and Guy Mahaffy are working to infuse their latest venture, Ginguro Exploration Inc. (TSX:GEG), with the same spirit of success.

Bob Middleton likens the discovery of chromite in the James Bay Lowlands to the 1903 Cobalt silver discovery that opened up Northern Ontario and created the great mining camps of Timmins and Kirkland Lake.

Steelworkers Local 6500 officials handed out documents to the media Dec. 17, which they say prove it is Vale Inco, not the union, which is preventing further negotiations from taking place.

The ongoing strike at Vale Inco by nearly 3,000 members of United Steelworkers Local 6500 is having a "profound and serious" impact on Sudbury, according to an economist at Laurentian University.