Opinions

The one billion dollars in exploration and deposit appraisal expenditures recorded in Ontario for 2011 speaks volumes about our mineral wealth and competitive advantages as an exploration-friendly jurisdiction.

Professors Philippe Lalande and Daniel Spooner of the University of Montreal’s School of Industrial Design were recently invited to Sudbury by Laurentian University Economics professor David Robinson to share their thoughts on the importance of indus

Good news can be bad news. For the mining supply sector, labour shortages in the mining industry promise good times.

Mining and the trade in metals shaped the ancient world. And in almost every case, the transportation system for the metal industries was the most advanced you could find at the time.

A globally significant mining cluster doesn’t just materialize at the snap of one’s fingers. Like good wine, it takes time to mature.

[dropcap]S[/dropcap]tan Sudol has one of the most active mining blogs in North America: www.republicofmining.com . It has recently been added to a Top Ten Mining Blog list by Australian Mining magazine.

Hooray, we lose! The mining industry in Australia is going to war. It will be marching with the Australian Chamber of Commerce, the Australian Coal Association and the Plastics and Chemical Industries Association.

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.

The global mining industry will face a serious problem in the near future acquiring and developing the human potential required to maintain economic viability. We need to find solutions very quickly to solve the problem.

Development economics is infested with acronyms. There was the BRIC – Brazil, Russia India and China, and now the BRICS - the BRIC with South Africa added.