Mining

By ANDREW WAREING Admiral Bay Resources Inc. (TSX.V: ADB) is hoping a deposit of coal bed methane just north of Kapuskasing is commercially viable enough to make a long-term investment on.

By ANDREW WAREING Even as the Porcupine Joint Venture (PJV) prepares to open its Pamour site, the search is already on to seek out more new mining opportunities. PJV is a joint development project by Placer Dome Ltd.

By IAN ROSS Construction was underway in May on the next leg of development at Canada’s only primary producing platinum group metals (PGM) mine. Last month, contractors from Talpa Mining of Val D’Or, Que.

FNX Mining Company Inc. and Dynatec Corp. are undertaking a massive $30-million advanced underground exploration program in the Sudbury basin.

By ANDREW WAREING With diamonds a major source of exploration in Northern Ontario, Big Red Diamond Corp. (BRDC) has gone public to help finance its explorations in the Attawapiskat area.

April was a good drilling month for diamond hunters KWG Resources and Spider Resources with the discovery of three kimberlites on their McFadyen property in the James Bay lowlands.

By JOSEPH QUESNEL For Rob McEwen, when it comes to running a billion-dollar company, ideas are more important than where one comes from.

Sudbury’s mining community strengthened its ties to Chile with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding last month.

KELLY LOUISEIZE Penguin Automated Systems Inc.’s Chairman and CTO Dr. Greg Baiden, is gearing up to put technology in place that may change the mining, military and medical complexion forever.

A plan to ship Voisey’s Bay nickel concentrate to Sudbury via Manitoulin Island has been scrapped by Inco. The controversial proposal by Alexander Centre Industries Ltd.