Mining

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.

With no talks scheduled and both sides firmly entrenched, the strike at Vale Inco’s Sudbury operations by the 3,100 members of United Steelworkers Local 6500 seems no closer to being resolved now than when it began, July 13.

The bones of a gold mine that never was are on the verge of being brought to life by Toronto-based junior firm Trelawney Mining and Exploration Inc.

A Thunder Bay junior miner wants to revive the iron ore industry in northwestern Ontario.

Xstrata Copper will permanently shut down its copper and zinc plants at the Kidd Metallurgical Site in Timmins. The company announced the shutdown Dec. 7, scheduled to come into effect by May 1, 2010, affecting an estimated 670 jobs.

Toronto, not Huntsville, will host the 10,000 or so attendees of the G20 Summit to be held June 26-27, despite millions of dollars' worth of preparatory investment in and around the Muskoka community.

Discontent is simmering in the shadow of the De Beers Victor Mine, as members of the Attawapiskat First Nation grow frustrated with the company for what they perceive as inaction on issues ranging from discrimination to water quality.