Ontario Mining – Page 11 – Republic of Mining

Northwest First Nation not sold on open-pit mining project – by Ian Ross (Northern Ontario Business – November 1, 2024)

November 1, 2024

https://www.northernontariobusiness.com/

Indigenous-led impact assessment initiated and community capacity-building funding to flow for disputed Springpole gold project

Northwestern Ontario mine developer First Mining Gold has entered into a “process agreement” with Cat Lake First Nation and Lac Seul First Nation in support of a community-based Anishinaabe-led Impact Assessment (ALIA) of the company’s Springpole Gold Project.

An Oct. 31 First Mining Gold news release said the agreement provides a framework between the company and the two area Indigenous communities to “have procedural clarity and meaningful participation” in the review of Springpole “through the unique cultural perspective of the Anishinaabe people.”

Temiskaming refinery builder secures funds for construction restart – by Staff (Northern Ontario Business – October 29, 2024)

October 31, 2024

https://www.northernontariobusiness.com/

Electra Battery Materials turns to lenders to finance early construction works

Electra Battery Materials has secured US$5 million ($6.9 million) from its own lenders to spend on its unfinished Temiskaming cobalt refinery.

In an Oct. 25 news release, the aspiring mineral processor announced it has a non-binding term sheet from the holders of secured notes issued by the company to raise financing that will be earmarked for “early works and winter preparations” at its refinery project in northeastern Ontario and other corporate purposes.

Ontario chamber boss bullish on Sudbury, Northern Ontario – by Hugh Kruzel (Sudbury Star – October 28, 2024)

October 31, 2024

https://www.thesudburystar.com/

‘What is produced here is essential to our economic future,’ Daniel Tisch Echevarría says, referring to the mining sector

Northern Ontario and Sudbury are keys to the province’s economic prosperity, the president and CEO of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce says. Daniel Tisch Echevarría made the observations last week during the 129th annual general meeting of the Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce.

“When you sit in Toronto you see a lot of data,” Tisch said. “When asked if businesses across the province are confident in themselves they say yes.

Monument will pay tribute to stack, says Vale Base Metals (Northern Ontario Business – October 28, 2024)

October 28, 2024

https://www.northernontariobusiness.com/

Thousands of Sudburians voted on trio of options following superstack’s decommissioning

Vale Base Metals said it will build a monument to its famed superstack, following feedback from the Sudbury community.

In an Oct. 25 social media post, the Brazilian nickel miner said that was the preferred option that emerged after thousands of community members voted on three potential options to pay tribute to the decommissioned stack.

How Quebec Cree avoided the fate of Attawapiskat – by Terry Milewski (CBC News Politics – May 14, 2013)

October 28, 2024

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/

Please note that his article is from 2013!!

On the eastern shore of James Bay, a very different story

Freezing, mouldy homes. Sewage contamination. Sick kids. Unemployment. A blockade on the road to the mine. A hunger strike by the chief. That, it seems, is the news from the Cree of James Bay — at least, as it’s defined by the desperate community of Attawapiskat, in northern Ontario.

Before that, there was the news from nearby Kashechewan. Flooding. Despair. Suicide. And both James Bay towns endured fresh emergencies this spring as the annual meltwaters exposed, again, their rickety infrastructure.

Conservationists raise alarm bells over James Bay lowlands (Timmins Daily Press – October 26, 2024)

October 28, 2024

https://www.timminspress.com/

First Nation says plan is crucial for global climate goals

Mushkegowuk Council released a statement Thursday, Oct. 24, urging Ontario to join as a partner on a conservation plan they say is crucial to the global efforts to protect land and water. For their part, the province says their talks with the federal government on conservation efforts are ongoing.

“Minister Rickford has met with Mushkegowuk council on several occasions to discuss shared priorities,” wrote Curtis Lindsay, spokesperson for the minister of Indigenous affairs, in an email. “Ontario is continuing discussions with the federal government on how to move forward collaboratively on conservation projects that fall under provincial jurisdiction,” Lindsay wrote.

Vault Minerals drags out the drama on a White River mine restart – by Ian Ross (Northern Ontario Business – October 25, 2024)

October 25, 2024

https://www.northernontariobusiness.com/

Australian gold producer sees open-ended potential to boost ounces at idled Sugar Zone Mine

The idled Sugar Zone gold mine, near White River, “represents a rare and profitable production opportunity” for Vault Minerals to restart at very little cost. But company management remains tight-lipped on when mining will resume at the underground operation, 30 kilometres north of town.

The Australian mid-tier gold miner is big on its enthusiasm for the practically turn-key underground mine, but is short on divulging definite timelines on a restart and how large the gold resource could grow to, despite conducting more than 90,000 metres of drilling in 2024.

Who will pay for Ontario’s radioactive past? – by Aya Dufour (CBC News Features – October 15, 2024)

October 25, 2024

https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/

One northern remediation project illustrates the complexity of the issue

If not for the fences and the signs, nothing’s obviously threatening about the radioactive waste that has plagued Nipissing First Nation for decades. It looks like sandy soil peppered with small rocks. Behind the benign appearance, however, are niobium and other naturally occurring radioactive materials that were left behind by a defunct mining operation dating back to the early days of the Cold War.

With the company long gone and the Ministry of Mines busy remediating and monitoring the other 5,865 abandoned mining projects in Ontario, the waste has just sat there for 67 years.

As we build a vision of Canada, let’s make sure it has more Canada in it – by Dan Breznitz (Globe and Mail – October 19, 2024)

October 21, 2024

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/

Any follower of Canadian news is overwhelmed by the amount of doom and gloom about Canada’s economic future. Rightly so. We should not only be worried, but also forcefully demand that Canadian businesses finally embrace innovation to significantly improve productivity, and that our government focus less on symbolic politics and more on putting the country back on track.

I would be the first to admit that in this series I have been at the forefront of this choir of despair, documenting our alarming decline, how systemic and deep-set our problems have become, how unproductive and lacking in innovation our business sector is, and how our government is structured in a way that ensures it is not fit for purpose.

IAMGOLD sees a gold trail between two deposits – by Ian Ross (Northern Ontario Business – October 16, 2024)

October 21, 2024

https://www.northernontariobusiness.com/

Toronto gold company envisions a district-scale open-pit mine complex

IAMGOLD is out to connect the dots between its new Côté Gold open-pit operation and its nearby Gosselin deposit in the belief that they are tying into one larger gold system just outside of Gogama.

The Toronto gold miner delivered some operating results for Côté with its third quarter 2024 fiscal year on Oct. 15 with some encouraging exploration results that its proposed district-scale mining complex could eventually become just that.

Camping through northern Ontario includes Ouimet Canyon and Amethyst Mining – by Dave Gilchrist (Niagara On The Lake Local – October 17, 2024)

October 21, 2024

https://www.notllocal.com/

The canyon and the mining operation both offer interesting sights to see.

As we left the Sibley Peninsula on our camping trip through northern Ontario, we backtracked a bit to see two sites that we had wanted to experience in the area.

The first was the famous Ouimet Canyon located several kilometres north of the Trans Canada Highway. The canyon is 100 metres (330 ft) deep, 150 metres (490 ft) wide and 2,000 metres (2 kilometres; 1.2 miles) long and is protected as part of Ouimet Canyon Provincial Park. The morning we visited the canyon it was misty which added an almost surreal feeling to the view.

IAMGOLD sees a gold trail between two deposits – by Ian Ross (Northern Ontario Business – October 16, 2024)

October 17, 2024

https://www.northernontariobusiness.com/

Toronto gold company envisions a district-scale open-pit mine complex

IAMGOLD is out to connect the dots between its new Côté Gold open-pit operation and its nearby Gosselin deposit in the belief that they are tying into one larger gold system just outside of Gogama.

Equinox Gold stock takes hit on lowered production guidance for Greenstone mine – by Staff (Mining.com – October 17, 2024)

October 17, 2024

https://www.mining.com/

Equinox Gold (TSX: EQX) (NYSE American: EQX) said on Thursday it is expecting lower-than-forecasted output this year from its new Greenstone gold mine to reflect its ramp-up progress towards commercial production.

Since its first gold pour in May, the mine located near Geraldton, Ontario, has produced approximately 59,000 oz. of the precious metal, including 42,500 oz. during the third quarter. During Q3, the processed grade averaged 1.15 grams gold per tonne at an average recovery rate of approximately 80%, which Equinox says was largely on plan.

‘We believe Canada needs more nickel,’ Wyloo boss says – by Nicole Stoffman (Sudbury Star – October 13, 2024)

October 15, 2024

https://www.thesudburystar.com/

Nickel produced and processed in Northern Ontario and the Ring of Fire would be destined for the EV market

Kristan Straub, CEO of Wyloo Ring of Fire, provided an update on the Eagle’s Nest Mine at the State of Mining luncheon in Timmins recently. The mine site in the Ring of Fire in northwestern Ontario has a ‘small footprint’ of one square kilometre or half the size of the Timmins Airport, Straub said.

The site contains a deposit of 17 million tonnes at 3.3 per cent nickel, copper and platinum group elements. It also has some of the world’s largest chromite deposits outside of South Africa, Straub said.

Greater Sudbury to study the well-being of mining communities – by Staff (Sudbury Star – October 9, 2024)

October 15, 2024

https://www.thesudburystar.com/

Federal government will pay for $150,000 report

The City of Greater Sudbury will get $150,000 from the federal government to study how to improve well-being in Northern Ontario’s mining communities.

“We know that Northern Ontario is home to a world-class mining and mining supply and services sector and this study will allow us to identify our competitive advantages and share lessons learned with fellow OECD members, Greater Sudbury Mayor Paul Lefebvre said in a release.