Mining

Humility and hard work has kept one Ontario author’s pen to the parchment. Michael Barnes, a prolific Haliburton-based writer and author of several Canadian bestsellers, describes himself as a middle-rank writer that people don’t remember.

The CARMIX concrete mixer is a “must-have” for Norm Maurice, president of Sudbury’s CARMIX Canada, Paramount Construction and Atlas Concrete Driveways.

The safety of workers in underground mining operations stands to improve through new wireless infrastructure technology being developed by Sudbury-based Symboticware Incorporated.

The green energy movement has sparked a new phase of exploration in a corner of northwestern Ontario.

Christine Kaszycki, assistant deputy minister of the Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry (MNDMF), has been officially named the province’s new Ring of Fire Coordinator.

A murky plan by the provincial government to rehabilitate and re-open a former northwestern Ontario open pit mine for industrial use has a Thunder Bay iron ore miner pondering whether to move his processing operation elsewhere.

The Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation (CEMI) has added fresh blood to the upper echelons of its roster, with the appointment of mining veteran Doug Morrison as deputy director, effective Nov. 1.

Sudbury-area's Stanley Appleton Manufacturing Corp. provides in-house design, build, testing and certification of rollover and falling object protective structures

The Kirkland Lake Adams Mine is still an environmentally sound site for landfill, said Gordon McGuinty, businessman and former owner of the open-pit mine in northeastern Ontario.

With plans to bring its Kirkland Lake-area project into production by 2011, Armistice Resources is moving aggressively on its McGarry Gold Project.