Mining

Noront Resources has filed an updated technical report for its Black Thor, Black Label and Big Daddy chromite deposits located in the Ring of Fire. The company filed an NI 43-101 resource report for the properties, which were acquired for $27.

The mountainous slag piles at nickel miner Vale in Sudbury are becoming a favourite landing spot for one of nature’s most threatened species

First Nickel Inc. has gone into receivership, the company confirmed in an Aug. 20 press release. Employees at First Nickel's Lockerby Mine in Sudbury were reportedly turned away Thursday morning at the gate and told the mine was closed.

Starting this fall, Northern College ’s Kirkland Lake campus will be offering a new diamond driller assistant common core program that will train students to work as diamond driller assistants in both surface and underground drilling environments.

Reclamation work being done by Barrick Gold at its Hemlo property near Marathon has changed the landscape of the former mining operation.

A nitrogen dioxide leak at Vale’s Copper Cliff smelter caused some tense moments in Sudbury. The noxious gas (NOx) was released from the company’s acid plant during a maintenance shutdown, Aug. 13.

North American Palladium (NAP) announced Aug. 6 that it has completed its recapitalization program with Brookfield Capital. NAP operates the Lac des Iles mine, northwest of Thunder Bay, one of two primary producers of palladium in the world.

After a successful inaugural year in 2014, the North America Mining Expo in Sudbury expands to larger digs for this year’s show.

Heavy equipment students at Northern College Timmins Campus now have hands-on experience in working with specialized mining equipment after a donation from Dumas Mining Contractors.

Frank Racicot, a Sudbury-based consulting geologist, prospector and filmmaker, has launched a website to preserve and celebrate the bizarre and unusual stories of what he fears is a dying breed of mineral explorers.