Mining

Xstrata Nickel and the Canadian Auto Workers Sudbury Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union Local 598 successfully renewed a three-year collective agreement with 93 per cent of workers voting in favour of the new contract.

The good news keeps rolling in for Premier Gold Mines in the form of high-grade drill assay results.

Like many in the Timmins business community, Novenco Consultants Limited’s Erik Hoffman sees the impending May shutdown of processing facilities at Xstrata Copper’s Kidd Metallurgical site as an “opportunity to diversify.

After a month and a half of negotiations, CAW Local 598 has reached a tentative collective agreement with the Xstrata Nickel Sudbury Division.

Not everyone got what they wanted, but the long-awaited changes to Ontario’s 100-year-old Mining Act should go a long way toward minimizing conflict on the land on mineral exploration issues.

A Thunder Bay mineral symposium of the Matawa First Nations tribal council in February could be a raucous affair. The aggressive push by Cliffs Natural Resources and Canada Chrome to develop a $1.

FNX Mining Co. Inc. has discovered wide, high-grade deposits of nickel, copper and precious metals at its Victoria property near Sudbury. The company plans to spend about $7.

Noront Resources Ltd. (NOT:TSX) is supporting the actions of its exploration partner Marten Falls First Nation to block exploration in the Ring of Fire area of the James Bay Lowlands.

Ask Peter Matusch about his experience of spending 31 years as the head of CCM Group of Companies, and he smiles, shrugs, and quietly says it’s simply all about hard work.

David Wood didn’t choose a career in assessing rock fall hazards, it’s a specialty he sort of tumbled into. As an engineering geologist with 30-years experience in rock mechanics, his consulting work can be a 24/7 job.