Mining

The process to modernize Ontario's Mining Act got off to a rocky start at a Sudbury public meeting in August.

Timmins representatives and De Beers Canada executives saluted and praised Jeremy Wyeth, the outgoing vice-president of operations for the completed Victor diamond mine, now in production near Attawapiskat.

Mining crews at the world’s deepest copper and zinc mine are about to travel even deeper, thanks to a commitment from Xstrata Copper to invest $121 million in Timmins’ underground Kidd Mine.

A completed three-year contract to haul equipment up the James Bay coast to build Ontario’s first diamond mine proved to be a lifeline for a Kapuskasing trucking company.

Victory Nickel has increased its offer to purchase all of the outstanding common shares of Independent Nickel. In response, Independent's Board has recommended that shareholders accept the amended offer of 1.

Let the games begin. There was plenty of jockeying for position in Sudbury's mining business world.

The process to modernize Ontario's Mining Act got off to a rocky start at a public meeting in Sudbury, Aug. 13.

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.