Mining

With mining exploration and development reaching a fever pitch in the Kirkland Lake area, the region’s service and supply firms are reaping the rewards with heightened profits and plans to expand.

New industrial life may be breathed into an abandoned open pit mine in northwestern Ontario.

A remote Northern Ontario First Nation is extending a formal invitation for mining-related companies to do business with their community in the James Bay Lowlands.

Construction is potentially months away from starting on Canada’s largest undeveloped gold resource as Detour Gold Corporation gears up for its Detour Lake open pit mine, 180 kilometres northeast of Timmins.

Vale CEO Roger Agnelli accused the United Steelworkers of America being conflict-oriented towards the Brazilian miner in their recent year-long strike at their nickel mining and processing operations in Sudbury and Port Colborne. The union voted 75.

By Adelle Larmour Finding ways to reduce costs to remain competitive was the thrust behind the keynote speech that opened the technical program at the 13th Mine Ventilation Symposium on June 14 at Laurentian’s Fraser Auditorium.

The picketers were gone from the road to Vale's Copper Cliff Smelter in Sudbury less than an hour after results of a July 8 contract ratification vote were announced by United Steelworkers Local 6500 leaders.

Both Vale and Sudbury's Steelworkers Local 6500 are tight-lipped about the details of a tentative five-year deal reached between the two parties July 4.

Having reached an agreement over employees discharged through the strike, Vale and Sudbury's United Steelworkers (USW) Local 6500 have announced a tentative deal has been reached on a new five-year contract.

Mediated talks have broken off between Vale and the striking Steelworkers Local 6500 in Sudbury, despite “having a deal at hand,” according to John Pollesel, general manager of Vale's Ontario operations.