Thunder Bay

By KELLY LOUISEIZE With well over 30 years in the business world, Bill Boulton, president of Success Marketing and Sales has opened up his own company.

By KELLY LOUISEIZE A management plan to curb an outbreak of the jack pine budworm on trees covering almost 90,000 hectares in the Rainy River district is being welcomed by forest licensers.

By KELLY LOUISEIZE Production at the Red Lake Mine is expected to bump up to one million ounces in 2007-2008 as new mine manager Dan Gagnon merges the Placer Dome and Goldcorp deposits into one.

By IAN ROSS Thunder Bay’s Wolfden Resources is spinning out its northwestern Ontario gold properties to concentrate on gold and base metal projects in the Canadian Arctic.

By IAN ROSS Tree planting is a summertime right of passage for many students. It means a 6 a.m. wake-up in call rain, shine or sometimes even snow, followed by a bumpy bus ride down a washboard-surfaced logging road into a planting block.

By KELLY LOUISEIZE Howard Moscoe is passionate about spending public dollars in Ontario. “I don’t want to build my cars in a communist regime,” says the chair of the Toronto Transit Commission.

By KELLY LOUISEIZE A winter diamond drilling program has offered up a treasure trove of assays from the massive sulphide zone discovered on MetalCORP’s 100-per-cent owned Big Lake property.

By KELLY LOUISEIZE Thunder Bay may be launching a Molecular Research Centre of Excellence based on scientific partnerships and team spirit. A $6.

By KELLY LOUISEIZE Tourism operators in Thunder Bay think they know their visitors’ motivations quite well, but a study indicates some in the industry may be ignoring their travellers’ wants.

By KELLY LOUISEIZE Marathon - Every mining company has variables determining whether or not the property can be mined at a profit.