Mining

Xmet has contracted Asinii Drilling Inc. to start work on the company’s Blackflake Project near Hearst. In March 28 release, the Toronto junior miner reported line cutting is finished and ground geophysics is underway.

Toronto-based Kerr Mines has started a 6,000-metre drill program on its McGarry Deposit at Larder Lake in northeastern Ontario.

Lexam VG Gold Inc. is reporting “excellent” recoveries from recent metallurgical test work at its four Timmins properties.

The province is prepared to make a “very significant” infrastructure investment in the Ring of Fire, said Michael Gravelle, Ontario's Minister of Northern Development and Mines during a visit to Sudbury, March 27.

Last summer, a lake water crew with the Ontario Geological Survey (OGS) was being transported by helicopter to a research spot when one of its blades clipped a treetop, causing a wobble in the chopper’s flight.

The Ontario government and the nine communities of the Matawa First Nations have negotiated a “milestone” framework agreement on how to move forward with mineral and community development in the Ring of Fire.

Don MacLean an inaugural inductee into International Mining Technology Hall of Fame

Northern College’s Haileybury School of Mines and the Gangue-sters Rock & Mineral Club are preparing to host their 31st annual Gem and Mineral Show. The show will be held on March 29 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the campus gymnasium.

Wallbridge Mining announced March 24 that it has reached a definitive custom milling agreement with Northern Sun Mining. Wallbridge will be trucking ore from its new Broken Hammer Mine in Sudbury to Northern Sun’s Redstone Mill in Timmins .

Ontario Mine Rescue stood anxiously on the sidelines during the fatal Elliot Lake mall collapse , but it may prove to be a watershed event in the history and evolution of the 86-year-old volunteer organization.