Mining

Ontario Ministry of Labour inspectors issued 192 orders for violations of the Occupational Health and Safety Act to mining companies between Oct. 1 and Nov. 30, 2015.

The good old days are coming to an end for carbon in Ontario, and a new age of decarbonization dawns in 2017. A provincial cap and trade system looms, and businesses are wondering what it means to them.

The construction of New Gold’s Rainy River Mine is proving to be a huge economic boon in business spinoffs for the entire Rainy River district.

NORCAT is quickly becoming a virtual playground for mining professionals looking for hands-on machinery training, with the goal of improving health and safety in the industry.

Jannatec Technologies president Wayne Ablitt had been having difficulty attracting the best and brightest engineering minds to his Sudbury firm, and so he set his eye to the offices of some of the most iconic tech companies — think Google or Facebook — for inspiration.

Suzanne Bernier watched the coverage of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and she saw death, devastation and destruction.

The United Steelworkers union (USW) “welcomes” criminal charges against Detour Gold for the June 2015 death of a worker at its mine in northeastern Ontario. USW Ontario director Marty Warren wants the charges to be “prosecuted as soon as possible.

Detour Gold has been charged with criminal negligence causing death under the Criminal Code of Canada, following the death of an employee at its Detour Lake gold mine last summer.

A preliminary economic assessment (PEA) prepared for Pure Gold Mining forecasts a 6.5-year mine life for its Madsen Gold Project at Red Lake.

A fledgling White River-area gold miner has started shipping ore to Barrick Gold’s Hemlo mill for processing. The shipments are from Harte Gold’s 70,000-tonne advanced exploration bulk sample at its Sugar Zone property in northwestern Ontario.