Mining

A junior miner and a mining services company were heavily fined for building an illegal exploration camp in the Ring of Fire.

The Ontario government said it’s not taking sides in asking to participate in a court appeal launched by Cliffs Natural Resources over access issues to the Ring of Fire.

The Ontario government wants to officially weigh in an upcoming appeal launched by Cliffs Natural Resources to overturn a provincial tribunal’s decision that denied the mining company overland access to its Ring of Fire mineral deposit.

Swiss-based automation firm, ABB Inc. announced it has completed the upgrades at Vale’s Clarabelle mill in Sudbury . In a Feb.

Northern College is experiencing another successful milestone in its legacy of miner training: nearly all recent graduates of its hard rock miner common core program are working, two-thirds of which have found employment in the Kirkland Lake area.

Goldcorp is undertaking a new kind of mining designed to improve the health and safety record across its operations.

Around two billion years ago an asteroid or comet approximately 10 to 15 kilometres in diameter collided with what is now the Sudbury basin. When it entered Earth's orbit it was travelling at a speed of around 36,000 kilometres per hour.

A provincewide safety blitz by the Ministry of Labour is being conducted on hoisting plants in underground mines.

In an updated NI 43-101 resource estimate, Detour Gold has announced a mine life of 21.7 years for its Detour Lake Mine north of Cochrane. Current mineral reserves stand at 15.5 million ounces of gold (476 million tonnes grading 1.02 g/t gold).

Cliffs Natural Resources is denying a Thunder Bay online media report that it is permanently abandoning its Ring of Fire properties. “Not true,” said company spokeswoman Pat Persico in an email. “There’s been some confusion around the camp site.