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MineConnect Ask the Expert: Working with Austmine – Access the Australian mining sector
Australia and Canada have continually delivered industry’s best technologies and services to the mining sector globally and remain champions in advancing innovations. Yet collaboration between technology suppliers and services providers from the two countries is limited and often evaded due to misconceptions of competition. Working with Austmine, being Australia’s premier...
Réseau du Nord Webinar: Recruitment Strategy for Northern Ontario Suppliers
Wednesday August 31, Réseau du Nord will offer 2 webinars on recruitment strategy for northern Ontario employers. The first webinar will be held in English at 9:30 AM and the second one in French at 2:00 PM. These activities are delivered in partnership with Société Économique de l’Ontario and the...
Federal assessment starts for proposed Timmins nickel mine development
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 is hosting Mine Operators and Maintenance Engineers for the CIM-MeMO conference
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...
Science North selects a Thunder Bay waterfront site for regional expansion
A Thunder Bay waterfront location is the “preferred” spot for a permanent home for Science North’s expansion into northwestern Ontario. In a news release, the Sudbury-based science centre announced that the Pool 6 site in the city’s harbour will be the location to build its 34,000-square-foot attraction. The property is the...
Barrick Gold quarterly profit beats expectations after copper boost
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...
Canada sends mining equipment, personnel to the Dominican Republic to help rescue trapped miners
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...
Ontario’s new mines minister has a strong pedigree in mining
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 announces appointment of Luc Guimond as chief operating officer
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...
Skyrocketing costs continue to hamper Gogama mine construction project
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...
Goodman School of Mines Seeking 6 Mineral Engineering Professionals
The Goodman School of Mines at Laurentian University is seeking 6 mineral industry engineering professionals to provide a 15 minutes presentation on their career path for undergraduate engineering students at Xi’an University in China who are considering coming to Canada to study. If you are interested in learning more about...
New Member Announcement: Becker Mining Systems (Becker Varis)
We are excited to announce our NEWSEST corporate member… Becker Varis Becker Varis is dedicated to the development and application of effective communications in mining, tunnelling, and oil & gas. It is internationally recognized for its quality, Leaky Feeder communication, TCP/IP over Leaky Feeder, Resource Tagging & Tracking System, Remote...
Cementation Americas completes one of the largest North American raise bores, with zero harm in Wyoming for Solvay Chemicals #5 shaft
Cementation Americas (Cementation) is pleased to announce the completion of the full faced raise bored raise at Solvay Chemicals #5 shaft in Green River, Wyoming. Project requirements were to complete a 22 ft. diameter shaft, complete with concrete liner, from surface to a depth of 1,506 ft. Concrete liner thickness...
New Australian owners look to get White River mine back on track
The new Australian owners of a once-insolvent White River gold mine intend to install the latest and greatest in modern mining systems. Silver Lake Resources plans to spend between $35 million to $45 million (Australian dollars) over the next two years to get the struggling Sugar Zone Mine operating at a...
Detour Lake Mine has the legs to last to 2052
The prolific Detour Lake Mine, near the Quebec border, looks to have some longevity to last a long time. A new technical report released by Toronto’s Agnico Eagle Mines in its second quarter results this week shows steadily increasing gold reserves that should boost its mine life by 10 years to 2052....
New Member Announcement: Réseau du Nord
Please welcome our newest associate member: Réseau du Nord! Réseau du Nord connects Northern Ontario service providers, organizations, employers and newcomers to put in place a system to facilitate recruitment, selection, reception, integration and inclusion of francophone newcomers. The mandate of the Réseau du Nord revolves around 5 areas of...
‘Great work staying on schedule,’ says Equinox Gold boss
Equinox Gold claims progress on construction of its Greenstone open-pit gold mine is on budget and on schedule to pour its first gold bar sometime in the first half of 2024. The Vancouver gold company delivered an update on July 27 on the pace of progress of its Greenstone pit project, three...
Mining community mourns the death of Sudbury’s Dick DeStefano
A Sudbury man who was regarded as a driving force in the development and eventual global reach of Northern Ontario’s mining supply and services sector has died. Community leaders across the North were saddened this week to learn of the death of Dick DeStefano. He was 85. DeStefano was born...
MineConnect Member Spotlight: Steelworks Inc.
As a businessman who knows the importance of having the right tools for the job, Steelworks Inc. founder and CEO, Marco Julien strives every day to create and innovate in order to provide valued customers with quality workmanship. Established in 1994 and with 25+ years of expertise in drafting, fabricating...
Métis Nation to benefit from Temiskaming refinery expansion
Temiskaming refinery developer Electra Battery Materials has inked a benefits agreement with the Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) The pact details opportunities for future employment, training and business procurement related to the build-out of the refinery into a battery metals industrial park situated between Cobalt and Temiskaming Shores. The Métis Nation will also become part owners in the...
Evolution Mining seeing its turnaround efforts rewarded in Red Lake
Australia’s Evolution Mining said it’s seeing the results of its three-year turnaround plan to restore Red Lake as a premier gold mining region. Sydney-based Evolution posted its June quarterly results – for the period running May 1 to June 30 – showing gold production is up, grades are higher, and operating costs...
Sandvik partners with Foran for BEV fleet in Canada
Foran Mining has selected Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions to supply a fleet of 20 battery-electric vehicles (BEVs), including trucks, loaders and drills, for its McIlvenna Bay project in Saskatchewan, Canada. Set to be the world’s first carbon-neutral copper development project, McIlvenna Bay will be powered by clean hydroelectric power...
KWG acquires Fancamp’s chromite claims in Ring of Fire
Fancamp Exploration (TSXV: FNC) has agreed to sell all its rights and interests in the Koper Lake-McFaulds mineral properties, comprising four mining claims located within Ontario’s Ring of Fire, to KWG Resources (CSE: KWG). The entire property package covers 1,024 ha immediately to the east of claims owned by Wyloo Metals containing the Eagles Nest...
Ten financial actors own half of the world’s oil, gas, coal emissions – study
Ten financial actors with the most influence on the fossil fuel economy own 49.5% of potential emissions from the world’s largest energy firms, a recent study has found. In a paper published in the journal Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, researchers from Canada, France and New Zealand take a deep look into the...
KWG acquires Fancamp’s chromite claims in Ring of Fire
Fancamp Exploration (TSXV: FNC) has agreed to sell all its rights and interests in the Koper Lake-McFaulds mineral properties, comprising four mining claims located within Ontario’s Ring of Fire, to KWG Resources (CSE: KWG). The entire property package covers 1,024 ha immediately to the east of claims owned by Wyloo...
