Mining

Thunder Bay’s Accurassay Laboratories are increasing their productivity and services to meet the demand created by high commodity prices. Its most recent $1.

Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. announced Dec. 1 that Dave Anthony will join the organization as vice-president and senior project director of Cliffs' Canadian chromite operations, effective January 2011.

A leading junior miner in the Ring of Fire is tapping into northeastern Ontario expertise to advance its high-grade nickel-copper and chromite deposit in the James Bay region.

Humility and hard work has kept one Ontario author’s pen to the parchment. Michael Barnes, a prolific Haliburton-based writer and author of several Canadian bestsellers, describes himself as a middle-rank writer that people don’t remember.

The CARMIX concrete mixer is a “must-have” for Norm Maurice, president of Sudbury’s CARMIX Canada, Paramount Construction and Atlas Concrete Driveways.

The safety of workers in underground mining operations stands to improve through new wireless infrastructure technology being developed by Sudbury-based Symboticware Incorporated.

The green energy movement has sparked a new phase of exploration in a corner of northwestern Ontario.

Christine Kaszycki, assistant deputy minister of the Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry (MNDMF), has been officially named the province’s new Ring of Fire Coordinator.

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.