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NEWS RELEASE: Ontario Completes Building Highway Upgrades at the Gateway to the Ring of Fire (Premier’s Office – November 13, 2024)

First Nations partnering with province to unlock multi-generational economic opportunities in Northern Ontario

GREENSTONE — Today, Premier Doug Ford and Greg Rickford, Minister of Northern Development and Minister of Indigenous Affairs and First Nations Economic Reconciliation, joined regional First Nations Chiefs to mark the completion of critical highway infrastructure improvements in the Greenstone area in Northern Ontario.

These highway upgrades at the gateway to the Ring of Fire region will improve connections to the provincial highway network for First Nations in the Greenstone area while also supporting the province’s ongoing work to unlock the economic potential of Ontario’s critical minerals in partnership with First Nations.

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Dubreuilville mines help drive record quarter for Alamos Gold – by Ian Ross (Timmins Today – November 12, 2024)

https://www.timminstoday.com/

Mineral growth opportunities abound as Magino Mine is absorbed into Island Gold operations

DUBREUILVILLE – Adding the Magino open-pit mine to the Alamos Gold stable helped the Toronto gold company post a record third quarter in a number of areas.

Across its mines in Northern Ontario and Mexico, Alamos posted a record 152,000 ounces of gold, up nine per cent from the previous quarter. That’s a reflection, the company said of the performance of its pair of Dubreuilville-area gold mines, Island Gold and Magino. Last week the company posted its financial results for the quarter ending Sept. 30.

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Lithium explorer forges bond with Indigenous development corporation – by Ian Ross (Northern Ontario Business – November 6, 2024)

https://www.northernontariobusiness.com/

Power Metals hands contract to Black Diamond Drilling to probe for high grade cesium

A Vancouver cesium and lithium exploration outfit has hired an Indigenous-owned drilling company for its latest campaign near the Quebec border. Power Metals announced it’s engaged Black Diamond Drilling Services to complete a third round of drilling at its Case Lake property, 80 kilometres east of Cochrane.

Black Diamond Drilling is a First Nation company-owned by the community of Apitipi Anicinapek Nation (ANN), formerly Wahgoshig First Nation, located near Matheson.

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Mining the Northwest: Goldshore Resources sees blue sky potential in Shebandowan area – by Ian Ross (Northern Ontario Business – November 5, 2024)

https://www.northernontariobusiness.com/

Moss deposit, west of Thunder Bay, could have district-scale potential

Goldshore Resources believes there are more ounces to be found around its six-million ounce deposit in the Shebandowan area, west of Thunder Bay.

The Vancouver gold explorer announced in late October it has raised $13.9 million in flow-through financing that’s doing into exploration this winter to drill off targets in the vicinity where the company has sketched out a conceptual open-pit mine.

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Goodbye, Superstack: Vale set to dismantle this Sudbury landmark – by Silvia Pikal (CIM Magazine – October 31, 2024)

https://magazine.cim.org/en/

At 381 metres, the Vale Base Metals—formerly Inco—Superstack, which is part of the company’s Copper Cliff smelter complex, was Canada’s tallest freestanding structure when it was completed in1972. It later lost that distinction to the CN tower, but today it still stands as the tallest chimney in the Western Hemisphere.

After Vale announced in September that work will begin to bring down the Superstack once it finishes dismantling its smaller Copperstack in 2025, people sent in stories to Vale about family members who were part of the construction for the behemoth structure. Locals who feel attached to it are asking: won’t the horizon of Sudbury, a place known to the global mining industry as Nickel City, feel empty once its iconic Superstack comes down?

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Northwest First Nation not sold on open-pit mining project – by Ian Ross (Northern Ontario Business – 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.”

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

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

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Monument will pay tribute to stack, says Vale Base Metals (Northern Ontario Business – 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.

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

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.

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

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Vault Minerals drags out the drama on a White River mine restart – by Ian Ross (Northern Ontario Business – 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.

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

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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)

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.

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

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