Mining

By Jessica Smith Brett Resources Inc.’s aggressive year-long exploration program at its Atikokan area Hammond Reef project has significantly expanded a historic low-grade gold deposit.

By ADELLE LARMOUR As uranium market prices continue to climb, so have the number of claims staked in the Sibley Basin, northeast of Thunder Bay.

By IAN ROSS A junior miner is striving to mend fences with a Native community in northwestern Ontario in order to resume exploration work at a high-grade chromium-PGE deposit. The stand-off continues between Platinex Inc.

By IAN ROSS CVRD Inco’s new face of Sudbury mining is really an old hand from across town. Parviz Farsangi, the former manager of Falconbridge’s (now Xstrata Nickel) Sudbury mines and mill business is now the new Chief Operating Officer of CVRD INCO.

By ADELLE LARMOUR Aligning interests between mines and First Nation, and energy conservation were two keynotes delivered at the second annual Marathon-Hemlo Mining and Prospecting Expo.

By IAN ROSS Exploration activity in northwestern Ontario is at its highest in Garry Clark’s memory. “Every greenstone belt has some active exploration project,” says the Thunder Bay-based executive director of the Ontario Prospectors Association.

By NICK STEWART The relationship between surface rights holders and mineral rights holders has sometimes been a tense one, but a series of changes being proposed for the Ontario Mining Act may change that.

By IAN ROSS Sudbury’s Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation (CEMI) fell short in their competition to be selected one of 11 national centres of excellence in science and technology.

By Kelly Louiseize CVRD Inco has confirmed a new ore resource that could add almost 30 years to the 104-year old Creighton Mine in Lively, Ontario and approximately $800 million to the local economy if it is brought into production.

By IAN ROSS The opening of Ontario’s first diamond mine in March, will put gems back on the front page, ahead of surging metal prices.