Thunder Bay

Mike Rudnicki would rather do all the heavy lifting with the push of a button.

Years of discarding his wood chips at a Thunder Bay sawmill and not seeing a dime in return got Vince Rutter thinking.

A Thunder Bay video production company found some southern comfort in Central America.

A trip to the world’s largest mining show may soon bear fruit for a Thunder Bay geomatics firm, once heavily invested in the forestry industry.

Compared to the deep freeze and ice-choked waterways of the last two winters, it was practically summer sailing for the opening of the Port of Thunder Bay in late March.

Thunder Bay’s marine terminal for general cargo is being upgraded. The Thunder Bay Port Authority is receiving $1 million from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund toward the construction of a new $7-million warehouse.

Pario Engineering & Environmental Sciences, a Nova Scotia-headquartered provider of engineering and environmental services, has set up shop in Thunder Bay.

Greenstone Gold Mines is working to finalize its environmental assessment (EA) for the Geraldton-area Hardrock property it’s aiming to develop into an open-pit gold mine. The company is a 50/50 partnership between Premier Gold Mines Ltd. and Centerra Gold Inc.

It was another healthy haul for the Port of Thunder Bay in 2015 with the western Lake Superior port handling more than 8 million tonnes of grain in 2015, its third best total since 2000. The port closed to navigation on Jan.

Finding diamonds in the rough and eliminating obstacles to employment are what drives Paul Giles of Hardy Giles Consulting.