Mining

Ring of Fire junior player KWG Resources reports its Black Horse chromite deposit contains 77.9 million tonnes of inferred resources.

A seminar to help mining supply and services companies explore export opportunities will be held in Sault Ste. Marie on June 5. The seminar is an initiative of the Mining Supply and Services Export Assistance Program.

Two workers employed by Taurus Drilling are dead following a fall of ground at First Nickel’s Lockerby Mine in Sudbury. The deceased are Marc Methe, 34, and Norm Bissaillon, 49, both drillers with the company.

When it comes to reality TV series, the fishing show Deadliest Catch has orange gold, forestry’s Ax Men has green gold, and the oil industry is encapsulated in the show Black Gold. Now, hard-rock gold mining has its own version.

To improve health and safety standards in Ontario's mines, workers must not face reprisals if they bring issues forward to management, said a member of the United Steelworkers.

Increasing domestic demand and rising prices for cobalt has spurred a Vancouver-based junior miner to re-evaluate a property in northwestern Ontario.

The Ontario government has been granted 30 minutes to make its case at an upcoming legal challenge by Cliffs Natural Resources over gaining access to its Ring of Fire deposit.

Wallbridge Mining expects to begin ore production at its Broken Hammer copper and base metals open pit in Sudbury during the first week of May.

The province’s billion-dollar promise to jump-start development in the Ring of Fire was not lost on the exploration companies operating in the James Bay region.

The Ontario’s government’s handling of the Ring of Fire has been a “mismanaged file,” according to a Toronto lawyer, author and strategist specializing in mining and First Nations negotiations.