Mining

Rubicon Minerals reports it’s on schedule to finish construction and start production at its Phoenix Gold underground mine in Red Lake by mid-2015.

An Ontario Divisional Court in Toronto has heard an appeal by Cliffs Natural Resources over gaining access to its Ring of Fire chromite deposit.

The first report from the new Northern Policy Institute echoes a plan set forward by junior miner KWG Resources in 2010, that the Ring of Fire's infrastructure should be developed under a port authority model.

Wallbridge Mining has started delivering the first shipments of ore from its Broken Hammer open-pit mine in Sudbury to Northern Sun’s Redstone Mill in Timmins.

The provincially-created Northern think-tank has released a Ring of Fire report suggesting that the creation of a port authority is the most prudent way to gain overland access to the mineral-rich James Bay lowlands.

Kirkland Lake’s Nordex Explosives announced it has been contacted by the Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation (CEMI) in Sudbury about the potential to collaborate on deep mining projects.

Kirkland Lake Gold announced June 12 that it intends to raise $7 million through private placement flow-through financing. The company will issue 1,795,000 flow-through common shares at a price of $3.

The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency is inviting public comment on IAMGOLD’s proposed Côté Gold Mine Project near Gogama in northeastern Ontario.

KGHM's Victoria Mine, near Sudbury, is expected to be operational by 2019, said Mark Frayne, the company’s manager of project controls. The mine will employ between 150 and 300 people.

It’s been 15 years since a small group of volunteers decided to take on the rehabilitation of Sudbury ’s Junction Creek. What started as a grassroots effort has resulted in a unique partnership with one of the world’s biggest mining companies.