Timmins

By NICK STEWART The unseasonably colder spring has cooled not only residents, but also the Timmins’ housing market fever. It saw its first decline in total sales since 2004.

By NICK STEWART Nearly 20 years and $1 billion later, Ontario’s first diamond mine is on the brink of rolling into full production.

By Bridget Tremblay It is not only the weather that is heating up Timmins, but the economic climate as more than 90 mining companies are actively exploring in the region. “We have seen an upswing in our economy,” said mayor Tom Laughren.

By NICK STEWART The sheer popularity of retail opportunities in the Timmins area is leaving fewer and fewer options for the many companies interested in setting up shop, forcing officials to consider infrastructure expansion.

By NICK STEWART Robbin Villars knew the Timmins-based family business, CutRite Firewood, was doing something right when they got a call from British Columbia, looking for some of the company’s white and yellow birch.

By NICK STEWART Although the “heart of gold” beating in the City of Timmins is shining much brighter than the prospects of the local forestry industry, representatives from both shared concerns at the recent bi-annual Timmins Regional Economic Outloo

By NICK STEWART With a bankable feasibility study now in hand, Apollo Gold Corporation is moving full steam ahead on its plans to bring both a new open pit and a past-producing mine online in the Timmins area by early 2009.

By NICK STEWART One mining junior is looking to find both inspiration and nickel at the site of the past-producing Langmuir No. 1 and No. 2 mines, located 25 kilometres southeast of Timmins.

By IAN ROSS Six years after the first exploratory drill hole, Ursa Major Minerals has started regular ore shipments from its new nickel-copper open pit mine, north of Webbwood, to a Greater Sudbury smelter.

By IAN ROSS Early one autumn morning in 2006, Chris Hamblin observed a flock of migratory geese feeding on grass atop the covered tailings at the old Kam Kotia mine near Timmins.