Provincial releases critical minerals strategy, funds early-stage exploration program and mining innovation
A little more than a year after asserting that Ontario should be a world leader in the emerging net-zero economy, the provincial government released its five-year road map with its much-touted Critical Mineral Strategy.
Premier Doug Ford delivered the news on March 17 at Impala’s Lac des Iles palladium mine, northwest of Thunder Bay. He called the 50-some page document his government’s “blueprint to connect industries, resources and workers in our province’s north to the future of manufacturing in the south as we build up home-grown supply chains.”
The provincial government wants Ontario to be on the global forefront in building electric vehicles by arranging a domestic supply chain that starts at the mineral exploration and extraction stage and continues downstream through the high-tech advanced manufacturing processes to the car assembly plants.
Read the full article from Northern Ontario Business HERE
