Mining

The Ultra-Deep Mining Network in Sudbury received 62 proposals from researchers and mining supply and services companies to bring forward any ideas that would improve ultra-deep mining productivity or safety to reality.

Al Shefsky is in a race to bring rare earth mineral production to Northern Ontario. If he can get his new project processing monazite off the ground, it may move him closer to the finish line.

Women in Mining (WIM) Canada has received funding from the Status of Women Canada (SWC) to implement a national action plan to increase the number of women working in the mining sector.

Results from recent drill samples taken from Superior Copper ’s Algoma property are encouraging the company to further its exploration program.

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.