Mining

Preliminary assays from Endurance Gold's recently completed diamond drilling program on its Pardo Property, 65 kilometres northeast of Sudbury, have shown the majority of holes returning gold values.

Located in the Sudbury area, Champion Bear Resources Ltd.'s Iron Mask property has just begun to see the first stages of the company's newest drill program.

With an exploration project in the Lynn Lake area of Manitoba, Sudbury-based Independent Nickel has just seen a $14-million investment from Vancouver's Hunter Dickinson.

Pele Mountain Resources has entered a pre-feasibility study on its way to developing the first operating uranium mine in Elliot Lake since 1996.

The glitter of Australia’s famed Kambalda nickel deposits may one day be seen in the Timmins mining district if Golden Chalice Resources Inc.’s hopes and dreams come to pass.

Six years after the first exploratory drill hole, Ursa Major Minerals has started regular ore shipments from its new nickel-copper open pit mine, north of Webbwood, to a Greater Sudbury smelter.

Early one autumn morning in 2006, Chris Hamblin observed a flock of migratory geese feeding on grass atop the covered tailings at the old Kam Kotia mine near Timmins.

Kapuskasing Mayor Alan Spacek only had to stroll through the Prospectors and Developers trade show in Toronto this spring to gauge the level of exploration interest in his corner of Ontario's Clay Belt.

Mining or exploration companies that do not have a health and safety program are gambling with severe penalties, says Bill Mercer, chair of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada's (PDAC) Health and Safety Committee.

Having air side assets is an added bonus for a leading edge geology assay lab now opening its second location in Northern Ontario. Activation Laboratories Ltd. (Act Labs) is spending $1.