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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.”

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.

Lithium company executive seeking federal backing was key figure in Alberta Energy Regulator spending scandal – by Niall McGee (Globe and Mail – October 21, 2023)

October 24, 2023

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Zeeshan Syed, a former Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) executive who was engulfed in a public sector spending scandal in Alberta only four years ago, welcomed two Liberal cabinet ministers to the Thunder Bay site of his junior mining company’s proposed lithium refinery last week, and is optimistic he can attract taxpayer funding for the venture.

The visit, which was widely publicized by Mr. Syed’s company to attract media and investor attention, saw both François-Philippe Champagne, the Federal Industry Minister, and Patty Hajdu, Indigenous Services Minister, heap praise on his struggling penny stock mining company, Avalon Advanced Materials Inc..

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

https://www.thesudburystar.com/

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.

Consultations continue as 2 First Nations work toward road to Ring of Fire in northern Ontario – by Sarah Law (CBC News Thunder Bay – October 18, 2023)

October 18, 2023

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Series of open houses planned for next few weeks across the region

A project that would create a direct route between the provincial highway network and the lucrative Ring of Fire mineral deposit in northern Ontario is making headway.

Led by Marten Falls First Nation and Webequie First Nation, the Northern Road Link project would connect two other proposed roads: the 200 kilometre Marten Falls First Nation Community Access Road at the south end, and the 110 kilometre Webequie Supply Road to the Ring of Fire at the north end.

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.

OPINION: Reasonable Republicans understand the value of trade relationships – by Andrew Willis (Globe and Mail – October 17, 2023)

October 17, 2023

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Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo finished off a recent trade mission to Ontario and Quebec by hosting a reception in downtown Toronto’s Hockey Hall of Fame. The evening was marked by two striking moments. The first was the sight of the Nevada delegation, decked out in their Vegas Golden Knights jerseys, posed around the Stanley Cup, while Mr. Lombardo said, with a smile: “We waited a long time for this.”

He said this to a room full of Toronto Maple Leaf fans, who’ve been waiting a little longer than the Knights’ six years for a championship.

Climate change threatens winter roads connecting northern Ontario’s remote communities – by Michelle Allan (CBC News Thunder Bay – October 12, 2023)

October 13, 2023

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/

Warmth, temperature volatility cutting First Nations off from provincial road network

For many northern Ontario First Nations, apart from air travel, the only connection to the rest of the province is seasonal winter roads built each year on the frozen rivers, lakes, muskeg and earth. As climate change continues to narrow the window during which winter roads are useable, Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) gathered in Thunder Bay to strategize how to keep its communities connected in a rapidly thawing north.

In a summit overview handout, NAN said that climate change has “reduced the length of winter road season from an average of 77 days, to as few as 28 days or less in some areas.”

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.

Financial viability of proposed lithium processing plant feted by federal politicians in question – by Niall McGee (Globe and Mail – October 13, 2023)

October 13, 2023

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/

Canadian junior mining company Avalon Advanced Materials Inc. hosted federal Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne at a proposed lithium processing site in Northern Ontario on Thursday, and it hopes to get funding from Ottawa, even as the company’s financial future hangs in the balance.

Toronto-based Avalon says it intends to build Ontario’s “first domestic supply chain” that will link lithium deposits in the north to the expanding electric battery manufacturing base in the south. But given the company’s financials, it’s not clear how it can raise the money to build its planned lithium refinery in Thunder Bay.

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.

Inside the battle over the Ring of Fire in northern Ontario – by Liam Casey (CP24 – October 10, 2023)

October 10, 2023

https://www.cp24.com/

On a rock-covered beach in the heart of the Ring of Fire in northern Ontario, Alex Moonias gazes east, then north. All he sees is undisturbed land, water and air. Some 100 kilometres from where he stands, the province plans to build a road as part of its pledge to mine the area, which is said to be rich in metals needed for electric vehicle batteries.

Moonias, an elder from Neskantaga First Nation, and many in his community see the provincial government’s ambitions for the Ring of Fire as an existential threat to their way of life. “Mother Earth is hurting,” the 70-year-old says. “If a big needle is pushing into your body, how would you feel?”

Ring of Fire road projects are ‘sovereignty’ issue, says Anishinaabe documentary filmmaker – by Ian Ross (Northern Ontario Business – October 5, 2023)

October 5, 2023

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Thunder Bay’s Tony McGuire wades through the conflict and contradiction of Far North development

When Thunder Bay and Anishinaabe filmmaker Tony McGuire embarked upon a documentary project on the proposed roads to the Ring of Fire, he admittedly struggled with finding a focus. “We weren’t really sure how to tell the story.”

McGuire had been invited by the isolated communities of Marten Falls and Webequie First Nations to take on a lightning rod of a topic among Indigenous people, environmental groups, politicians and industry for the last 15 years.