Mining

The David Suzuki Foundation is siding with two northern First Nation communities in requesting a moratorium on mining exploration permits in the Ring of Fire.

Responding to a sea of criticism over its handling of the Ring of Fire, the province's Minister of Northern Development and Mines insisted on Nov. 26 his government's strategy will make the chromite discovery a success.

A million dollars doesn’t stretch as far as it once did; not if you’re in the exploration business in Ontario.

Porcupine Gold Mines , a subsidiary of Goldcorp , has signed a resource development agreement with four First Nations communities, which will allow for continued exploration in the Timmins area. Negotiations began more than five years ago.

Steve Miller, chief of the Atikameksheng Anishnawbek First Nation, said his community has struck a “first-of-its-kind” advanced exploration agreement with KGHM International regarding the Victoria base metal mine project, west of Sudbury.

The president and CEO of the Sudbury-based Ionic Engineering group of companies says he was shocked when he read Greg Baiden, the CEO of Penguin Automated Systems, say Sudbury mining companies lack innovation. “I do absolutely no work in this city.

Sudbury's largest mining companies, Vale and Glencore, lack innovation, says the chairman of a local mining robotics and technology company. “I do absolutely no work in this city.

Late in the afternoon of July 10, Jim Gallagher answered the phone call that no mining executive ever wants to receive.

Northern Iron Corp. announced it has a permit in hand to begin dewatering the former Griffith open-pit mine in northwestern Ontario. The Vancouver miner announced Nov.

Kerr Mines has entered a pair of agreements to sell its Northern Ontario assets in a deal worth $11 million.