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Realizing our full potential The preliminary results from a study of the Sudbury and area mining supply cluster and its value to the economy of Ontario confirm the claims that Sudbury Mining Solutions Journal has been making since our inaugural issue in March 2004. We knew that the mining supply cluster in the Sudbury, Timmins, North Bay triangle was substantial in size and impact, but we would never have guessed that its value to the economy was a whopping $5.6 billion per year or that it accounted for some 23,000 jobs. | |
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Ontario’s mineral wealth takes centre stage The resiliency of Ontario’s mining industry is once again on display as representatives of the global exploration industry descend on Ontario for the annual PDAC International Trade Show and Investors Exchange March 7 to 10. | |
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Something to cheer about Reading this issue of Sudbury Mining Solutions Journal, you’d hardly know the city is in the grip of a strike by 3,100 employees of Vale Inco. Strikes are tough on the community and particularly on suppliers dependent on the city’s major employer, but there are still a lot of good news stories out there, as readers of this issue will readily observe. | |
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Short-term pain, long-term gain The Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) put out a press release in mid-April warning of a "significant shortage of skilled workers and professionals" in the mining industry over the next decade. Coming as it did in the midst of one of the worst depressions in living memory, it seemed just a bit counter-intuitive. | |
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All eyes on Ontario Ontario is once again laying out the red carpet for the world’s mineral exploration industry as thousands of delegates from all over the world converge on Toronto for the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada’s 2009 International Convention, Trade Show and Investor’s Exchange. | |
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The sky hasn’t fallen Writing headlines for a quarterly mining journal can be a risky proposition. Such was the case with the headline, “Ontario firing on all cylinders,” emblazoned across the front page of our September 2008 issue. The story accompanying it trumpeted an exhaustive list of mine development projects and record-breaking spending on exploration. It went on to illustrate the effects of all of this activity on mining suppliers, the housing market and the wear and tear of the region’s roads. | |
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Euphoria and the law of gravity Euphoria pretty well summarizes the state of the mining industry in 2008 and the mood in the Ontario mining cluster of Sudbury, Timmins and North Bay. | |
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More than just headframes If David Robinson’s crystal ball, below, is accurate in predicting several more decades of voracious demand for metals, it won’t just be mining suppliers who stand to benefit. | |
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Overcoming challenges - our specialty If nickel, copper, gold and all of the other metals we work so hard to find, extract and process were just lying in heaps somewhere on the surface of the earth, we’d all be fat, lazy and probably a bit slow. | |
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Canada’s new science and technology policy The Government of Canada’s new science and technology policy should be good news for the mining industry and for Canada’s pre-eminent mining cluster encompassing Sudbury, Timmins and North Bay. | |
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