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Business of the Month: Think big, draw small: Bélanger Salach celebrates 60 years of architectural design. Province provides $4 million to train carpenters and electricians in Sudbury. Sault mall owner defaults on $18M mortgage, sparking court battle over plaza’s future. Greenstone gold mine ramps up into commercial production.
First Nations business group touts Indigenous-led climate solutions
Oct 3, 2024 — 00:02:04. THUNDER BAY — The federal government needs to invest in Indigenous-led “nature-based solutions” to address climate change, says Jason Rasevych. Rasevych is president of the Anishnawbe Business Professional Association (ABPA), a non-profit organization serving the First Nations business community within Treaty 3, Treaty 5, Treaty ...
Canada Nickel submits federal impact documents for Timmins mine
Oct 4, 2024 — 00:02:58. Canada Nickel said it’s started the process of filing its federal environmental impact statement for its proposed Crawford open-pit nickel, north of Timmins. In an Oct. 2 news release, the company said that regulatory requirement process will take six weeks to complete. This is the second phase of the federal permitting process and ...
Dryden gold developer picks up Nova Scotia mine project
Oct 10, 2024 — Dryden-area mine developer NexGold (formerly Treasury Metals) has agreed to merge with Signal Gold, a Nova Scotia mine builder. The two companies inked a definitive arrangement agreement on Oct. 9 to combine their holdings into what’s being promoted as the creation of a significant Canadian gold player with six million ounces of gold in the ground in northwestern Ontario and Nova Scotia.
Wyloo CEO makes Timmins stop to talk Ring of Fire
Oct 4, 2024 — TIMMINS — With a nickel mine in Ontario's Far North aiming to be in production in six years, the Timmins business community had a chance to learn more about the project. Wyloo CEO Kristan Straub talked about the ongoing work at the proposed nickel and chromite mine in the Ring of Fire Oct. 3 at the Timmins Chamber 's State of Mining series.
Sagamok Anishnawbek takes the plunge into underground mining
Oct 3, 2024 — New ownership is at the helm of Legend Mining.. Z’gamok Enterprises Inc. (ZEI) has acquired a 51-49 per cent controlling interest in the Sudbury mining contractor. The deal, a year in the making, was finalized Sept. 4. Diving into underground mining services had been something the organization has been thinking and strategizing about for a decade.
U.S. short-line rail operator to close acquisition of former Algoma ...
Jan 25, 2022 — The 123-year history of Algoma Central Railway (ACR) is expected to enter a new chapter. The long-anticipated sale of 250 miles of former ACR track between Sault Ste. Marie and Oba, Ont. to U.S. short-line operator Watco is expected to close before the end of January.
Quebec construction firm awarded $1.8B contract for Far North …
Oct 7, 2024 — Pomerleau Healthcare Partners has been awarded a fixed-price design-build contract worth $1.8 billion to construct the new Weeneebayko Area Health Authority project in Moosonee and Moose Factory.. The redevelopment project, which has been in the works for more than 15 years, involves the construction of a 419,311-square-foot health-care campus that will include a 36-bed acute care hospital ...
IAMGOLD sees a gold trail between two deposits
Oct 16, 2024 — The company said in an Oct. 15 news release that they’ve mapped some gold extensions running to the south and west, and going deeper down, between Gosselin and the Côté mine. This may be an indication of a continuous gold-bearing hydrothermal breccia system between the two places, IAMGOLD said. This determination comes from an ongoing ...
Mining the Northwest: Red Lake's Great Bear project could be a …
Sep 11, 2024 — Once the Great Bear project gets rocking and rolling in 2029, Kinross Gold projects its future Red Lake mine can be a 500,000-ounce-a-year producer.