Mining

Two hundred miners at Rubicon Minerals’ advanced Phoenix Gold Project were laid off on Nov. 3 after the Toronto-based miner decided to shutter underground development operations in Red Lake.

Marc Boissonneault, Glencore’s vice-president of Sudbury’s nickel operations, has been promoted to head of the company’s international nickel assets. He officially began the job on Oct. 1.

The Sudbury Catholic District School board property where toxic runoff from Vale's (formerly Inco) slag piles allegedly seeped for decades, was often over-saturated, said a former manager who worked at the property.

Sudbury’s Wallbridge Mining Company started the next phase of exploration on its Parkin Properties in October, with funding from Lonmin. Wallbridge and Lonmin announced their agreement for the project in mid-September.

As Premier Gold Mines of Thunder Bay completes the final stages of a feasibility study for its Hardrock project, another influx of capital has been added to its treasury by venture partner Centerra Gold.

The last two years at North American Palladium’s Lac des Iles mine, Jim Gallagher has experienced a major company refinancing, an ownership changeover, a management reshuffle, a tailings pond issue, a round of layoffs, and the tragic death of a worke

The province will hold an inquest this fall into the 2012 death of a Timmins miner.

A search warrant Environment Canada enacted in early October to search through Vale's Sudbury offices leads back to toxic run-off allegedly leaking into Sudbury waterways since 1963. In a Canadian Press article published Oct.

Nordex Explosives will be supplying a Sudbury underground mining contractor with the explosives to carve out a new mine in Northern Ontario.

Miners at Glencore’s operations in Sudbury were scheduled to return to work at the Nickel Rim South Mine following the death of a worker underground this week. Operations were halted Oct.