Canadian Regional Media and Web Publications – Page 18

Sudbury’s Frontier Lithium awards feasibility study contract (Sudbury.com – November 4, 2023)

November 6, 2023

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Company said this is moving forward on the next step toward project engineering

Frontier Lithium Inc. (TSXV: FL) a Sudbury-based lithium mining exploration company, has announced the first phase of a Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS) for the PAK lithium project in a remote area of Northwestern Ontario.

The contract has been awarded to DRA Americas Inc., a fully-owned subsidiary of DRA Global (DRA). DRA Global is an international multi-disciplinary engineering, project delivery, and operations management group primarily focused on the mining, minerals, and metals industry, said a Frontier news release.

Nipigon-area lithium miner sees Red Rock for potential refinery – by Ian Ross (Northern Ontario Business – November 3, 2023)

November 3, 2023

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Rock Tech LIthium inks MOU with the Veldmans and Red Rock Indian Band

Rock Tech Lithium is eyeing the site of the former Norampac Paper mill site in Red Rock as a potential site for a lithium refinery.

The future mine developer and processor has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the brownfield property owners, BMI Group, and its partners, the Red Rock Indian Band to conduct an assessment for a 50-acre development footprint.

Ottawa’s murky environmental rules are parking foreign investment in Canadian resource projects, says analyst – Ian Ross (Northern Ontario Business – October 30, 2023)

October 30, 2023

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Overreaching, unconstitutional Impact Assessment Act has Ontario on the offensive to expedite project approvals

Quiet quitting became a cultural buzzword during the pandemic for workplace passivity and resignation. That lethargy now extends to investment in Canada’s natural resources sectors too, said Heather Exner-Pirot.

The mere mention of the federal Impact Assessment Act (IAA) to U.S. firms with Canadian projects can trigger mocking comments like the “Don’t Invest in Canada Act” and “banana republic,” said Exner-Pirot, director of natural resources, energy and environment with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a national public policy think tank.

Marathon and Biitigong Nishnaabeg make preparations ahead of mine approval – Austin Campbell (Northern Ontario Business – October 30, 2023)

October 30, 2023

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North Shore Municipality, First Nation plan and build for an influx of workers and families

While investors and residents await the verdict on Generation Mining’s closure plan for their proposed site outside of Marathon, the township along with Biitigong Nishnaabeg First Nation are pushing through for an increase in housing and enhanced infrastructure in anticipation of a population boom.

The real concern is the sheer number of labourers and transient workers that will soon be moving to the area, including a 1,000-person camp that will be situated on a private property between Marathon and Biitigong Nishnaabeg.

Alamos prepped for Dubreuilville mine shaft sinking – by Staff (Northern Ontario Business – October 26, 2023)

October 27, 2023

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Island Gold expansion will allow for an increase in production

The hoist is complete, the headframe is near completion, and the sinking of a new shaft at the Island Gold Mine, outside Dubreuilville, begins at year’s end. In delivering its third-quarter results, Alamos Gold updated progress on the third phase of expansion of the high-grade underground operation ,which will double production once construction is finished in 2026.

The infrastructure being installed also includes a paste plant and a processing mill expansion to support boosting the mining rate from 1,200 tonnes per day to 2,400. Instead of trucking ore and waste rock to surface, that material will be skipped through the new shaft infrastructure.

‘We’re moving the yard sticks:’ economic opportunities opening up for Indigenous communities – by Lindsay Kelly (Northern Ontario Business – October 25, 2023)

October 26, 2023

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Wahnapitae First Nation lands manager shares expertise during Economic Development Opportunities Forum

When Anthony Laforge had his first dealings with a resource extraction company, it was a crash course in how not to do consultation. The company had submitted its closure plan for a graphite mining operation in the town of Kearney and, as the lands manager for neighbouring Magnetawan First Nation, it was Laforge’s job to review it.

The community was given 30 days to review the plan. But by the time Laforge saw it for the first time, it had already been sitting on the chief’s desk for five days, he recalled. That left Laforge just 24 days to give his assessment on a file that was essentially new for him.

Ontario ready to legally rumble with Ottawa over the Ring of Fire – by Staff (Northern Ontario Business – October 24, 2023)

October 24, 2023

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Attorney General wants a shovel-ready province ‘without delay’ on big infrastructure projects

Last week’s Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling that the federal Impact Assessment Act is unconstitutional should clear a regulatory path toward expediting construction of big infrastructure projects, like the proposed Ring of Fire road network, said Ontario Attorney General Doug Downey in a news release, Oct.24.

In calling the federal act a “duplicative” process, Downey said the Ford government is “taking immediate legal action to bring certainty so that we can get shovels in the ground on infrastructure projects without delay.”

Vale to sell sand from Brazilian iron ore tailings – by Len Gillis (Northern Ontario Business – October 24, 2023)

October 24, 2023

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International miners creates spinoff company to market treated tailings as ‘sustainable sand’ for construction, road projects

Vale SA, the international parent company of Vale Canada, has had difficulty with the safety of some of its tailings dams, said it has created a new company to sell and distribute sand from its iron ore tailings properties.

Two dams operated by Vale SA failed in recent years, leaving hundreds of miners and civilians dead and creating significant environmental damage. Vale said the new company, named Agera, will be based in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil and is planned to develop and expand what Vale calls the Sustainable Sand business.

Gogama gold mine construction at 90 per cent completion mark – by Staff (Northern Ontario Business – October 23, 2023)

October 24, 2023

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Côté Gold open pit to start production in early 2024

Toronto’s IAMGOLD said construction progress of its Côté mine project near Gogama is at the 92 per cent mark. In a news release, the company said activity is at a point where construction is largely wrapping up and pre-production teams are moving in to begin commissioning various elements of the open-pit operation.

Côté is expected to start gold production sometime during the first quarter of 2024. Mining is already underway, having started last July. In the course of digging out the pit, 3.7 million tonnes of gold-enriched material has been stockpiled, on track to compile 5 million tonnes by year’s end.

Ontario court dismisses Neskantaga consultation case – by Ian Ross (Northern Ontario Business – October 21, 2023)

October 21, 2023

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Court rules it has no authority to determine adequate consultation or rewrite provincial legislation

The Ontario Superior court has dismissed a challenge by Neskantaga First Nation and its claim of inadequate consultation on a proposed section of the Ring of Fire road.

Neskantaga, a remote Oji-Cree community in the James Bay region, filed an application in November 2021 seeking clarity from the court on how the Ontario government should conduct consultation under the provincial Environmental Assessment Act.

Webequie Supply road to Ring of Fire mine more than a gravel road – by Nicole Stoffman (Sudbury Star – October 20, 2023)

October 20, 2023

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Engineering firm shares project details at information session

The Webequie Supply Road would be a 107 km all-season road that would go from Webequie First Nation airport east to McFaulds Lake, and link up to The Northern Road link that would lead to the planned site of the Eagle’s Nest mine.

The mine would be the first in the Ring of Fire, the 5,000 km area south of James Bay rich in critical minerals. The road project is in the sixth year of its impact assessment process, and two years away from potential environmental approval from both levels of government. At that point it would take five more years to build at a cost of $300 to $500 million in public funds.

Sudbury, Thunder Bay, Nipissing area shortlisted for lithium processing site by German mining company – by Ian Ross (Sudbury.com – October 18, 2023)

October 20, 2023

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Rock Tech Lithium looks to place its second lithium refinery in Northern, Eastern Ontario

Rock Tech Lithium, a German-Canadian company with a Lake Nipigon-area lithium deposit, is scoping out processing sites in Northern and Eastern Ontario. Sudbury, Thunder Bay, the Nipissing District covering the North Bay-Temiskaming area, and Leeds Grenville in the Brockville area are on Rock Tech’s shortlist, according to a company news release issued today.

The company, which recently opened an office in Toronto to oversee its Canadian operations, has ambitious goals to build “several lithium converters.” Its first lithium hydroxide processing site will be in Guben, Germany, and is targeted for production in 2026.

Communities on the Move: How Dryden is preparing for a mining boom – by Ian Ross (Northern Ontario Business – October 16, 2023)

October 17, 2023

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Northwestern Ontario pulp mill town plans for population surge, expanded housing needs over the next decade

The construction of an open-pit gold mine outside the City of Dryden could turn this northwestern Ontario community into a boom town practically overnight.

Should Treasury Metals greenlight construction on its Goliath Project at the end of 2024, Dryden will have a two-year headstart to put its plan into motion to accommodate an influx of new arrivals and businesses before the mine goes into production in 2026.

Canada Nickel aims to build world’s second largest nickel mine in Timmins – by Ian Ross (Northern Ontario Business – October 12, 2023)

October 13, 2023

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Feasibility study for Crawford Project shows 41-year mine life, with more projects likely to come

If Canada Nickel Company’s Crawford Mine Project becomes a reality by 2027, Timmins will have the second largest nickel mine in the world.

CEO Mark Selby took the wraps off the company’s long-awaited feasibility study, describing the details behind proposed a 41-year open-pit mine life for its Crawford Project, located 40 kilometres north of a northeastern Ontario city that’s more widely known as one of the best gold mining districts on the globe.

Mining the Northwest: Australian lithium player eyes former Thunder Bay paper plant site for chemical refinery – by Ian Ross (Northern Ontario Business – October 10, 2023)

October 12, 2023

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Green Technology Metals on the fast track to become Ontario’s first lithium miner and refiner

Brownfield space in Thunder Bay’s north end is becoming a hot spot for the lithium industry. Green Technology Metals said the former Cascades paper plant is its leading property to place a lithium hydroxide conversion facility, potentially the second such facility slated for the city.

In posting its “mine-to-chemical” strategy for northwestern Ontario this week, the company said it has a letter of intent for a 25-hectare industrial port site at 550 Shipyard Drive, the location of the former Cascades Fine Papers mill, also known as Superior Fine Papers, which was demolished in 2015.