Northern Ontario is shaping up to be a high-tech minerals grocery store to the world.
The northwest and the Timmins area has become an exploration hot bed for lithium, nickel, platinum group metals and other raw materials that international automakers and digitalcompanies want secured in making the transition to zero-carbon technologies.
Recognizing a massive manufacturing opportunity, the Ford government is out to update Ontario’s Mining Act and make it more industry-friendly, particularly when it comes to faster permitting times to put new mines into production.
The province rolled out the first of an upcoming raft of changes to the Act on March 2 that will ultimately will create a homegrown mines-to-electric vehicle (EV) plant supply chain.
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