Exploration

Probe Mines Limited has kept on top of its game acquiring strategic land packages in two of Ontario's most active regions: McFauld's Lake and West Timmins.

Employment opportunities on Ontario Geological Survey (OGS) field crews are one way to introduce First Nation youth to the mining industry.

Three years ago, the Ginoogaming First Nation, located on the northeast shore of Long Lake, one kilometre south of the town of Long Lac, boasted full employment, said Adolph Rasevych, president of band-owned Rocky Shore Development Corporation.

Peter Moses, the Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry's First Nation minerals information officer, traces his family's involvement in the mining industry all the way back to the late 1800s, when his great grandfather, a Mohawk from ea

Noront Resources, one of the best positioned exploration companies in the Ring of Fire, a highly prospective greenstone belt in Ontario's James Bay Lowlands, is going beyond the call of duty to develop good relationships with Marten Falls and Webequi

In 1996, a hole drilled as part of a Falconbridge exploration program intersected a 30-centimeter wide chalcopyrite vein and revealed an off-hole geophysical anomaly.

Become inventive, embrace a situation and roll with the punches. Keynote speaker Keith Barron, geologist and co-founder of Aurelian Resources Inc.

Webiquie First Nation, a remote community 540 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, has entered into a joint venture with Winnipeg-based Cyr Drilling International and a group of private investors to provide diamond drilling services in Ontario.

Webiquie First Nation, a remote community 540 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, has entered into a joint venture with Winnipeg-based Cyr Drilling International and a group of private investors to provide diamond drilling services in Ontario.

French drilling services contractor Foraco International’s new North Bay-based Canadian subsidiary is suffering like everyone else from the precipitous downturn in the mining industry, but has nevertheless carved out a respectable position in the mar