Exploration

Final statistics for 2007 exploration and deposit appraisal expenditures in Ontario were still being compiled at press time, but will be well over $500 million, a significant increase over the $346.5 million recorded last year.

You never know where linecutting will take you. For Vance McAfee, it led to a 32-year career as an area supervisor for Inco Exploration. Now, in retirement, he’s busier than ever manufacturing core saws for the international exploration market.

The history of mining in Finland dates back to the mid-16th century, more than 300 years before Canada’s birth as a nation. Now, it’s Canadian expertise that’s spearheading a renaissance of mining in the Scandinavian country.

Geologists rule.

A potentially large nickel-copper discovery in the James Bay Lowlands has created a lot of extra traffic in the office of Timmins resident geologist Brian Atkinson. Interest in the area has increased ever since Noront Resources Ltd.

Elliot Lake wouldn’t be the first mining camp to experience life after death. After all, orebodies deemed uneconomic one day have been known to take on a whole new luster as market forces drive up prices.

The City of Elliot Lake, a community of 11,500 people 160 kilometres west of Sudbury, used to be the quintessential single-industry town.

Platinum mining giant Lonmin has purchased an 18 per cent interest in Wallbridge Mining Company Ltd., a junior miner active in the Sudbury Basin.

Elliot Lake wouldn’t be the first mining camp to experience life after death. After all, orebodies deemed uneconomic one day have been known to take on a whole new luster as market forces drive up prices.

First Nickel Inc. is one step closer to developing another nickel and copper mine in the Sudbury area. On July 1, the junior mining company submitted a feasibility study on the Premiere Ridge deposit, located 60 km from Sudbury.