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 | Ontario suppliers target Saskatchewan
It started out as a so-called oil sands consortium focusing on Alberta. Now, it’s all about potash and Saskatchewan, one Canadian province to the east. Call it what you will, it’s paying big dividends for the 20 Northern Ontario mining supply and service companies that have joined forces to take advantage of Western Canada’s booming resource sector.
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 Ontario suppliers target Saskatchewan
It started out as a so-called oil sands consortium focusing on Alberta. Now, it’s all about potash and Saskatchewan, one Canadian province to the east. Call it what you will, it’s paying big dividends for the 20 Northern Ontario mining supply and service companies that have joined forces to take advantage of Western Canada’s booming resource sector.
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Consulting sector buzzing
Euro zone debt, American stagnation and a slowdown in China paint a picture of economic doom and gloom, but Northern Ontario’s mining engineering consulting firms have never been busier.
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Geotech Aviation selects Sudbury as hub
Geotech Airborne, a world leader in airborne geophysics, has selected Sudbury as the head office and operations centre of a new, vertically integrated sister company, Geotech Aviation.
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Ontario makes splash at Latin American shows
Ontario mining suppliers participated in a series of trade shows across Latin America between June and October as part of an aggressive new export development initiative being carried out by the province’s Ministry of Northern Development and Mines.
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First Nickel resumes production at Lockerby
The first nickel-copper ore from the restarted Lockerby Mine has been shipped to Xstrata Nickel’s Strathcona mill for processing. The mine will produce 400 tonnes per day of ore during Q4 2011, then ramp up to commercial production by mid-2012.
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Ingenuity triumphs at Quadra FNX
Mechanized mining using jumbos and big loaders are the underground mining method of choice throughout much of the Sudbury Basin and other mining camps around the world, but in the copper-rich Morrison Deposit that Quadra FNX is mining at its Levack Complex, “old school narrow vein methods,” using pneumatic hand-held drills, long toms and slushers are making a comeback.
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Mineral analysts gather in Sudbury
Sudbury will host the 43rd annual Canadian Mineral Analysts Conference and Exhibit Sept. 12 to 15. The conference is expected to attract between 175 and 200 delegates from independent laboratories and mining company labs from across Canada and the U.S., as well as manufacturers and suppliers of instrumentation and consumables.
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