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FedNor to announce support to expand presence of Northern Ontario’s mining supply and service sectors
The Honourable Anthony Rota, Member of Parliament for Nipissing–Timiskaming, will make a virtual FedNor announcement in support of the expansion of Northern Ontario’s mining supply and service sectors. The announcement will be made on behalf of the Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Indigenous Services and Minister responsible for FedNor. ...
TPS / NATT Safety Hiring event Tomorrow
NATT Safety Services/ Total Personnel Solutions is holding a Hiring Event on September 1 from 10am-3pm at their Espanola location, 90 Gray Street, Espanola. The recruiting team at the Hiring Event will be hiring for an upcoming shutdown happening in October. If interested, please attend the event, or send questions/...
Cambrian College, NSS Canada Team Up on High-Tech Miner’s Hardhat Project
This Tuesday, August 30th, 10 a.m. at the NORCAT Underground Centre, Strathcone Mine Road, in Levack, you are invited to learn details of a new project involving Cambrian R&D and NSS Canada, which will make mining safer for workers who are underground. NSS has partnered with Cambrian R&D to develop...
Rio Tinto invests $27 million in new aluminium recycling centre in Québec
Rio Tinto announced Friday it is investing C$35million ($26.8m) to build a new aluminium recycling facility at its Arvida Plant in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec. The investment will expand its offering of low-carbon aluminium solutions for customers in the automotive, packaging and construction markets and the facility will make Rio Tinto the...
Nevada Copper unveils restart and financing plan for Pumpkin Hollow
Nevada Copper (TSX: NCU) plans to restart and ramp up its Pumpkin Hollow underground mine in Nevada and has agreed to non-binding terms with lenders for up to $93 million. The restart plan involves de-bottlenecking and completing critical capital projects and building up stope ore inventory in order to achieve a...
Wyloo invests $103m in rare earths developer to fund stake in Neo Performance Materials
Four months after closing the acquisition of Canada’s Noront Resources and its Eagle’s Nest project in Ontario’s Ring of Fire, one of the world’s largest undeveloped high-grade nickel sulphide deposits, privately held Wyloo Metals is investing A$150 million ($103m) in Hastings Technology Metals (ASX: HAS), a rare earths developer in Australia. Hastings...
MineConnect.com…2.0
After several months of tweaking and re-tweaking, we recently launched a new and improved version of MineConnect.com. Based on input from you, our members, we have made a number of changes including an enhanced search function, additional sub-sector options, an event calendar, streamlined member portal functions including real-time analytics, additional...
Tesla’s battery metals bill balloons to $100 billion
Elon Musk had plenty of advice for the mining and metals industry at the company’s Battery Day event in September 2020, where the road map to a $25,000 Tesla was laid out. A couple of days after the event Musk confirmed in a tweet that Tesla will reach production of 20 million vehicles per...
Turquoise Hill shares surge after Rio Tinto sweetens takeover bid
Global miner Rio Tinto on Wednesday sweetened its takeover proposal for the 49% of Canada’s Turquoise Hill Resources it does not already own by $400 million to an all-cash $3.1 billion. To boost its chances of gaining direct ownership of the massive Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mining project in Mongolia, Rio...
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...
Exploring Technology Adoption in the Mineral Mining Industry in Canada – Survey
Mackenzie Crabbe, a Graduate Student at the University of Waterloo has launched a survey to explore the drivers, enablers, and barriers to technology adoption in the mining sector in Canada. This survey will be used to inform her master’s thesis, entitled Exploring Technology Adoption in the Mineral Mining Industry in...
Palladium miner spreads the benefits to First Nation
Impala Canada, operators of the Lac Des Iles Mine (LDI), near Thunder Bay, signed a community benefits agreement with Fort William First Nation earlier this month. The mining company and the community posted notice of the agreement and the Aug. 11 signing ceremony to Facebook on Aug. 19. The event, held at the...
The gold exploration surge continues in Timmins
Gold prices have slumped this month to below US$1,750 an ounce, but the Abitibi gold belt around Timmins continues to bustle with exploration activity this summer. With more than 200 million ounces of historical production, this mineral-rich region remains a magnet for junior miners to make new discoveries or breathe new life...
Canada Nickel confirms discovery at newly acquired Deloro property in Ontario
Canada Nickel Company has received new assay results from its Deloro property that confirmed a second significant discovery from the company’s newly acquired property package in Ontario. The Deloro property is located 9 km southeast of Timmins and contains an ultramafic target that measures 1.4 km north-south by 450 metres...
Glencore to spend $400 million to fix arsenic-emitting plant
Commodities giant Glencore Plc will invest C$520 million ($403 million) over five years in a copper smelter in northern Quebec to curb toxic emissions that health officials say have caused increased risk of cancer and other problems. The Horne Smelter has for decades been at the center of the economy...
CEN CAN Expo 2022 – The Big event gears up for Central Canada’s largest natural resource sector trade show and conference with over 300 indoor and outdoor displays
Canadian Trade-Ex will present the Central Canada Resource Expo (CEN CAN Expo). The event is finally coming to Thunder Bay after two years of being postponed due to COVID. The event will be held September 14-15 at the Canadian Lakehead Exhibition Grounds, the Valhalla Inn and Conference Centre and the...
Tough lessons for Pure Gold in Red Lake
Pure Gold Mining president-CEO Mark O’Dea offered a simple explanation for last year’s stumbling production start at its Red Lake mine. The company began mining at the wrong end of the deposit. The Vancouver gold miner delivered a conference call update this week on its second quarter results and the progress...
How is northern Ontario weathering the ‘Great Resignation’?
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...
The Sudbury Airport Community Development Corporation Welcomes New Board Members
The Sudbury Airport Community Development Corporation (SADC) is pleased to announce the appointment of its new Board of Directors; Diane McFarlane, Romina Calisi and Boris Naneff. The new appointments continue to build on the already strong governance and leadership commitment of the Board. SACDC Chair of the Board of Directors,...
Sudbury conference to study how mining is adapting to change
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 acquires Crean Hill mine with Lonmin Canada takeover
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,...
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...
Pure Gold management faces the music following ‘torturous’ Q2 report
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...
Magna Mining looks to revive former Sudbury nickel, copper mine
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...
CoreLift easing strain on weary geologists
For office workers with bad backs — or restless spirits — the introduction of standing desks to the workplace was a revelation: they could get up out of their chairs and work out some kinks while still being productive. Now geologists are getting their own ergonomics revolution. In June, the...
