Briefs

The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board of Ontario (WSIB) has announced an average 2019 premium rate reduction of 29.8 per cent for Schedule 1 businesses now that it is over 100 per cent funded and operating without an unfunded liability.

Vale has announced the launch of its 2019 Global Trainee Program, designed to attract young talent to its business worldwide.

Harte Gold has achieved its first gold pour at its wholly-owned Sugar Zone Mine in Ontario. “With this achievement we have advanced from permitting the project to gold production in under four weeks, a significant accomplishment,” said Stephen G.

New Gold Inc. has appointed Renaud Adams as its new president and CEO. Adams replaces Raymond Threlkeld, a director of New Gold who acted in the role on an interim basis since May 2018.

North American Palladium has announced the results of a new feasibility study incorporating major changes to the life of mine plan for its Lac des Iles Mine in northwestern Ontario.

Kirkland Lake Gold Ltd. has announced record quarterly gold production of 180,155 ounces for the third quarter of 2018.

Rubicon Minerals Corp. has completed test mining and bulk sample processing at the Phoenix gold project in the Red Lake district in northwestern Ontario. More than 35,000 tonnes of material was extracted from stopes in its F2 gold deposit.

Deltion Innovations Ltd., a Sudbury-based space tech company, is partnering with Moon Express, Inc., a Florida space transport company, on future mining opportunities in outer space and for moon missions.

Laurentian University’s Goodman School of Mines is asking engineers, geologists and environmental scientists to participate in a survey aimed at identifying the “skill, competency and behavioural gaps” to be filled to assume higher level roles left v

A recent Fraser Institute study concludes that “Canada’s provinces and territories have room to improve their permitting processes.