Mining

Goldcorp Inc., Placer Dome and Laurentian University’s Mining Innovation, Rehabilitation and Applied Research Corporation (MIRARCO) are teaming up to establish the world’s first virtual reality laboratory (VRL) in an active mining camp.

Goldeye Explorations Ltd.

Stocks of Rubicon Minerals Corporation began trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) on Sept. 17. As a result of this graduation to Canada’s senior stock exchange, the company will delist from the TSX Venture Exchange.

By ANDREW WAREING Mining service and supply companies outside of Sudbury are taking a serious look at the benefits of banding together.

Unionized Inco Ltd. workers in Sudbury ratified a new three-year deal Aug. 28, voting 62 per cent in favour of ending a three-month strike. Voter turnout with Steelworkers Local 6500 was 77 per cent in Sudbury where 3,316 employees are members.

The future looks sparkling for Wawa.

The discovery of emeralds near Dryden should jump-start exploration in northwestern Ontario, says a provincial geologist.

A Quebec mining company intends to extract industrial minerals from its recently-acquired pyrochlore property on the James Bay lowlands. Niocan Inc. of Oka, Que.

By IAN ROSS Plans for a traprock quarry on Lake Superior have been temporarily stonewalled by a group of Wawa cottagers fighting to stop industrial development along what they consider sensitive, pristine and protected shoreline.

By KELLY LOUISEIZE Preliminary exploration by De Beers in the Kasabonika region, approximately 400 kilometres west of Attawapiskat, has sparked partnerships with the local First Nation’s community.