Timiskaming & Region

Orefinders has struck a deal with IAMGOLD to mill stockpiled ore from its Mirado gold project, located 35 kilometres south of Kirkland Lake. The agreement marks phase one of Orefinders’ plan to develop the Mirado project.

Jake Englehart was memorialized as an important founding father of the town that bears his name, during a July 9 conferral of the Order of the North.

Heinz Dittmann, the last remaining founding partner of Three H Office Furniture Systems , died on Sunday, July 3 at the age of 89.

BonTerra Resources Inc. will acquire a 100 per cent interest in Kerr Mines ’ Larder Lake property, located east of Kirkland Lake and near Virginiatown.

Precision agriculture is a part of the new vernacular in farming. One fledgling northeastern Ontario drone company is on the flightpath to make a landing in that market.

A budding northeastern Ontario medical marijuana producer was expecting to finish the conversion of a nursery into a legitimate grow-op in March.

Kirkland Lake’s Mile of Gold is about to get longer — about 120 kilometres longer. That’s the strike length of the new land package acquired by Kirkland Lake Gold Inc.

A new book about the history of the Town of Cobalt takes an in-depth look at its role in shaping the Canadian mining industry and its underappreciated contributions to the country’s economy.

After the turn of the last century, the provincial government set about creating a “New Ontario” by offering land and cash to populate the Great Northern Clay Belt with first-time farmers.

The Haileybury School of Mines at Northern College is creating a School of Hard Rock Mining, and its first program will be offered in conjunction with Kidd Operations in Timmins.