Although the ‘Great Resignation’ which has gripped other sectors hasn’t quite materialized in northern Ontario, the mining and mine supply industry will be facing its own serious labour issues in the coming years, local analysts say. A shrinking and aging labour force, coupled with aggressive “poaching” of skilled people is keeping employers...

Sudbury is hosting the Mine Operators and Maintenance Engineers conference, which is slated to take place Sept.18 to 21 at Science North, to look at ways to do mining better. The event is sponsored by the Sudbury branch of CIM (Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum), and over the course of...

Magna Mining has entered into a definitive share purchase agreement to acquire 100% of Lonmin Canada Inc. (Loncan), whose assets include the Denison project and the past-producing Crean Hill nickel-copper-PGM (platinum group metals) mine, both located in the Sudbury basin of Ontario. As per the share purchase agreement between Magna,...

Pure Gold Mining  management was fielding uncomfortable questions from concerned shareholders during a conference call Tuesday following the company’s release of what investors termed a ‘tortuous’ second-quarter operations update and financial report. While the company cited an expected “significant improvement in production” in the third quarter, it says it remains on track...

A Sudbury junior miner, with big ambitions to become a major Sudbury-area nickel producer, has picked up a choice piece of ground. Magna Mining has entered into a definitive share purchase agreement to acquire all of the shares of Lonmin Canada in a deal worth $16 million. The prize is the Denison...

Inflation and supply chain issues are pumping up the price tag for Electra Battery Materials to bring a Temiskaming refinery back to life. It will delay the plant’s startup, originally scheduled for December, moving the commissioning to the spring of 2023. Toronto-based Electra is feeling the domino effect of the industry-wide price...

Junior Giga Metals Corp. (TSX-V: GIGA) and global trading and investment firm Mitsubishi Corporation agreed on Monday to form a joint venture company, Hard Creek Nickel Corp, to develop the Turnagain nickel-cobalt deposit in northern British Columbia, Canada. As part of the deal, Mitsubishi will acquire a 15% equity interest in the joint...

A federal assessment has kicked off of Canada Nickel Company’s proposed open-pit mine development, north of Timmins. The Toronto mine developer announced Aug. 8 that the process for its Crawford nickel project has been initiated by the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada. The company filed the necessary documents to the regulator back...

Sudbury will host the global mining industry for the Maintenance Engineering and Reliability/Mine Operators (MeMO) Conference September 18-21 at Science North. The theme this year is “Perseverance in a New World” and the three-day program seeks to explore the current challenges in mining operations, maintenance, engineering and reliability and share...

Barrick Gold Corp reported a nearly 19% rise in second-quarter profit on Monday, beating analysts’ expectations thanks to higher copper output, even as inflation drove the miner’s cost of production up. The world’s second-biggest gold miner stuck to its cost forecast for the year and said it was on track to...

Canadian personnel and equipment have been sent to the Dominican Republic to help rescue two men who have been trapped for a week in an underground mine at the Cerro de Maimón operation located in the central part of the island. Cerro de Maimón produces copper and zinc and is owned by...

George Pirie, Ontario’s new minister of mines, comes from a Northern Ontario family that has been part of the Porcupine mining camp for more than 100 years. Although Pirie is a newbie at Queen’s Park as the newly elected MPP for Timmins, and a man with more than 35 years...

Alamos Gold Inc. announced the appointment of Luc Guimond as Chief Operating Officer effective September 1, 2022. As part of an established multi-year plan, Luc will succeed Peter MacPhail who will be retiring as of August 31, 2022. To support the transition, Peter will be staying with the Company as...

The cost to finish IAMGOLD’s troubled Côté gold mine project will be close to $2 billion. The Toronto gold company released a project update on the Gogama-area open-pit development project in the wake of a thorough project review started last March. In May, company management estimated it would take more than a billion dollars to...