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 The ascendancy of brainpower
A globally significant mining cluster doesn’t just materialize at the snap of one’s fingers. Like good wine, it takes time to mature. Just decades ago, Sudbury was widely regarded as a lunchbucket town epitomized by Stompin’ Tom Connors’ boozy portrayal of Nickel City nightlife in the song, “Sudbury Saturday Night.”
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Offshore wind and solar power: wacky or inevitable?
Professor Dean Millar, MIRARCO research chair for energy in mining, is a voice in the wilderness working away on what some would consider wacky alternative energy schemes for an industry with a voracious appetite for conventionally generated power. A former program director for renewable energy and senior lecturer at the Camborne School of Mines in the U.K., Millar is a classic iconoclast, challenging traditional thinking and daring us to explore new paradigms.
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Mining industry soars once more
The mining industry, like life itself, has often been described as a roller coaster, climbing to nose bleed altitudes and then suddenly plummeting back to earth. The Northern Ontario mining cluster profited handsomely from the booming global economy in the years preceding 2008 and tanked along with the banks, the auto industry and the likes of Greece and Ireland when the bubble burst. This issue of Sudbury Mining Solutions Journal is proof positive that the mining industry is soaring once again.
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Money, brains and buried treasure
It’s no accident that 22,000 members of the global mining community take over Front Street in Toronto every year about this time. Ontario, the epicenter of the global mineral exploration business, is where the deals get done. It’s where money is raised and expertise is sought for discovering and mining the resources that are more in demand than ever as prosperity in the developing countries puts cash in the pockets of hundreds of millions of new consumers.
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Visionaries and creative minds
What's new in mining? A lot, if this issue of Sudbury Mining Solutions Journal is any indication. Our cover story provides a progress report on Rail-veyor Technologies Global Inc., a Sudbury-based company that is turning material handling technology upside down. Literally.
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The pieces of the puzzle are already there
It's hard to believe that a collection of 500 businesses concentrated in a defined geographic region and all targeting the same market could exist without some kind of organization or association to promote their interests.
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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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