Mining

To the untrained eye, a visit to Kovit Engineering’s lab in Sudbury looks like a number of adults playing with combinations of sand, silt and water.

The Ontario government has announced it plans on making the Northern Industrial Electricity Rate (NIER) Program permanent.

Somewhere in Greenland, there’s a mining industry representative walking around wearing a toque with Larabie Logistics emblazoned across it.

Timmins-based Lake Shore Gold has come a long way since a rough patch in 2012 and 2013 when a lot of investors thought the gold producer could go bankrupt.

The Ministry of Labour has laid 13 charges First Nickel and Taurus Drilling Services under the Occupational Health and Safety Act for the May 6, 2014 deaths of Marc Methé, 34, and Norm Bisaillon, 49, at Sudbury's Lockerby Mine.

A Quebec Superior Court has granted approval by Noront Resources to finalize its acquisition of the Ring of Fire chromite properties from Cliffs Naturals Resources for a new purchase price of US $27.5 million.

Anthony Makuch, CEO, Lake Shore Gold, has achieved TopGun status as a turnaround CEO according to Brendan Wood International (BWI), a global performance advisor.

The chiefs of Marten Falls and Aroland First Nations said the sale of Cliffs Natural Resources’ chromite properties in the Ring of Fire to Noront Resources was not a fair one.

Teck Resources Inc. has started exploration work on Explor Resources ’ Timmins Porcupine West property. Teck has the option of earning up to a 70 per cent interest on the property from Explor.

There wasn’t a billion-dollar Ring of Fire payday for Ontario in the April 21 federal budget, but Ottawa is willing to fund some of the technological challenges, exploration know-how and training requirements to support the idled Far North mineral pl