Mining

Two companies with strong Sudbury ties are working together to extend their influence and reach in parts of the United States market, with Cast Nevada Resource Inc. having signed a distributor agreement with Mining Technologies International Inc.

A man from North Carolina is standing on the north bank of the frozen Ogoki River in Northern Ontario. His job is to find bedrock that could support a bridge foundation for a Class 3 heavy-haul railway.

An abundant supply of cheap power will decide whether northwestern Ontario lands any of the facilities to process chromite ore when a proposed McFaulds Lake mine opens in 2016.

North American Palladium (TSX-PDL) has started recalling laid-off employees and hiring new ones to resume operations this summer at its shuttered Lac des Iles mine in northwestern Ontario.

The nearly 290 office, technical and professional workers at Vale Inco's Sudbury operations represented by United Steelworkers (USW) Local 2020 have voted 84.5 per cent to ratify a three-year offer put forward by the company.

Tito Martins sits back in his chair ready for the barrage of questions thrown at him from the media, extending his arms ahead and cupping his hands toward himself as if to say “Come on, I'm ready for you.

Vale Inco president and CEO Tito Martins seems puzzled as he speaks about the failure of recent negotiations with Steelworkers Local 6500 and the subsequent rejection of the company's contract offer by union members.

Sault Ste. Marie will never be confused or compared with the robust mining camps such as Sudbury, Timmins and Kirkland Lake – at least not yet.

With $375 million due to be spent during the next two years on building the Young-Davidson Mine near Kirkland Lake, Northgate Minerals is officially moving ahead this summer on its ambitious new gold mine.

Sudbury miner FNX Mining Company Inc. (TSX:FNX) and Vancouver-based Quadra Mining Inc. (TSX:QUA) have agreed to a merger of equals, creating an intermediate copper producer to be named Quadra FNX Mining Ltd.