Mining

After more than a decade shooting weddings, families, engagements and babies, James Hodgins felt like he was losing his spark. But all it took to reignite his passion for photography was a jumbo drill or two.

A conveyor alignment system, de­signed and manufactured in Dave Sharp's backyard workshop, has found a home in several countries across the globe. “It was a part-time thing because I just wanted to make the payments on a truck,” he said.

It wasn't just the shareholders reaping the benefits of the gold mines in Tim­mins several decades ago – highgrad­ers were getting rich too.

From a small operation that began in the basement of their home, Rod and Clara Steele are now in the pro­cess of commercializing a product that could trans­form the tunnel-drilling process in underground mining.

After six months at the helm of Sudbury’s Northern Centre for Advanced Technology (NORCAT), one of Don Duval’s immediate goals is to cut the boardroom in half and expand the upper atrium into a meeting space.

Cambrian College in Sudbury is experiencing record numbers of students enrolling in its various programs, but mining is at the top of that list, with a 100 per cent growth rate.

An Aboriginal training program in northwestern Ontario is making strides to address a looming labour shortfall in the mining industry.

Workplace Safety North (WSN) may be operating behind the scenes, but it works diligently to ensure workers go home safe each day.

Vale S.A. has completed a definitive agreement with Silver Wheaton Corp. to sell 70 per cent of the payable gold by-product stream from certain Sudbury nickel mines for 20 years.

The Northern Centre for Advanced Technology (NORCAT) and HLS Hard-Line Solutions Inc.