Timmins

Northern timber stocks are in danger because of changes in provincial fire management, say forest producers along Highway 11. Tembec's chief forester for the Ontario boreal east forest, Rick Groves, writes to Kapuskasing Mayor J.C.

Falconbridge wants the City of Timmins to drop its appeal of the company's property taxes with no strings attached.

Shareholders of Greenshield Resources Inc. are expected to huddle in Toronto Sept. 12 to grant approval for a new mining exploration project on the Swayze Greenstone Belt, 100 kilometres southwest of Timmins.

Sandvik Tamrock Canada donated a 20-tonne load haul dumper to the Timmins Underground Gold Mine Tour as a permanent display. The diesel-hydraulic machine is used underground to remove broken up ore after blasting.

Contract talks for the 680 workers at Falconbridge's metallurgical site in Timmins were to begin the third week of August. Canadian Auto Workers Local 599, whose three-year contract expires Sept.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is investigating a plane crash that claimed the life of a prominent Timmins businessman. Marcel Lafleur, 64, died Aug.

The City of Timmins was considering dropping its appeal of Falconbridge's Kidd Creek mine's property taxes. During an Aug.

A possible 150 jobs may be created with Norhcott Gold Inc. with a new open-pit mining project outside of South Porcupine. The Horseshoe mine shaft is reopening to pump out the existing water, which fills 770 feet of the 840-foot-deep shaft.

The design team of ANO Architects and B. H. Martin Consultants Ltd. has been picked by Timmins city council to develop plans for the long-awaited new library and health-coalition centre.

Jaguar is ending a 20-year relationship with Timmins by moving its cold-weather testing facility to Manitoba. Ford Motor Co., the parent company of the British automaker, plans to move Jaguar testing to Thompson, Man.