Mining

When Greenstone Economic Development Corporation executive director Dina Quenneville wanted to show community and business leaders how their area can be transformed by mining, she took them on a road trip to the Red Lake gold camp.

The Thunder Bay-based company is conducting an exploration program targeting nickel, copper, and platinum group metals (PGMs) in the James Bay lowlands, north of Hearst.

Adventurer. Womanizer. Prospector. Ernie Martin was perceived as many things during his lifetime, but his most remarkable achievement is one that's not known well at all.

Driving through the Fielding Road industrial park, an impressive new construction project is making an impact as it takes shape against the Sudbury skyline.

Between 2005 and 2009, 176 workers died and another 36 workers developed occupational diseases related to respiratory illnesses in the mining sector, according to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB).

Sherry Swain didn't heed the advice she was given over the years to remain a “housewife” and not become a prospector.

The first stage of a federal environmental assessment on Cliffs Natural Resources' chromite project in the James Bay region began in October.

The Detour Lake project is currently 40 per cent complete and remains on schedule for gold production in the first quarter of 2013. Detour Gold commenced construction of the mine in November, 2010.

There's been a tremendous push in the last few years for rare earth elements, (REE), and in Canada, Thunder Bay-based Rare Earth Metals Inc., has made significant moves to mine them.

Mine Source helps liquidate, repurpose surplus mining equipment