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Military intelligence developed scenario planning to deal with an unpredictable enemy.

SAMSSA has been a supporter of Modern Mining and Technology Sudbury (MMTS) for years and has seen an increased awareness of mining by high school teachers and students since its inception and transition from Sudbury Mining Career Week to the refreshe

When you are planning a new product or a marketing strategy, it is important to know which way the wind is blowing. And what colour. Today, the colour is green. The direction is harder to figure out.

In every issue of Sudbury Mining Solutions Journal, we offer our readers an almost random collection of stories that, on the face of it, have nothing in common: from the achievement of academic excellence at Laurentian University’s Bharti School of E

After 30 years in the business, Ricky Lemieux, president of Rock-Tech, a Sudbury-based mining supplier, has learned that every downturn is followed by a period of strong growth. It’s the nature of the business.

Awards, as simple as applauding an athlete’s success in a game or winning Olympic gold, are an important centuries-old tradition. This tradition is always based on recognizing some form of excellence.

There always seems to be an apocalypse just around the corner. I remember walking home from school with friends in 1962 looking up at the sky to see if the Russian missiles were coming.

It is quite evident that the Northern Ontario mining cluster has developed as a “mature cluster” based on studies by major agencies and institutions that study this concept.

Suppliers depend on prospecting in more than one sense. Without prospectors the supply of new mines would dry up, and our industry would be in serious trouble. So would the world. But prospecting matters in another sense.

Recently, Lourenco Gonclaves, the president, CEO and chairman of Cliffs Natural Resources, stated he didn’t think the chromite in Northern Ontario’s recently discovered Ring of Fire would be developed for another 50 years.