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As many as 400 delegates are expected to attend the Maintenance Engineering and Reliability/Mine Operators (MeMO) Conference October 16 to 18 at the Radisson Hotel in Sudbury.

New winze will improve ore handling Goldcorp Inc. has approved a $90 million capital project to improve ore handling at its Musselwhite Mine in northwestern Ontario.

Another 20 companies eligible for export strategy consulting The Northern Ontario Export Assistance Program has been funded for another two years.

Hurley Ventilation Technologies, a Sudbury-based manufacturer of fans, has spun off a new company to focus on the manufacture of mine air heaters. “Customers are looking for a turnkey solution,” said Dan Hurley, president of the Hurley Group.

Stuart Harshaw, Vale’s new senior executive in Sudbury, is happy to be back in the nickel city, but will have his hands full steering the mining giant’s Ontario Operations through the current commodity slump.

Production set to increase to 250,000 ounces per year The ink was barely dry on the deal to combine Tahoe Resources with Lake Shore Gold Corp. when company officials outlined plans to boost gold production in Timmins.

The Bjorkman family of Whiskey Jack Lake, 40 kilometres outside the northwestern Ontario community of Atikokan, will receive a Special Achievement Award at this year’s Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada convention and trade show, March

Delegates to this year’s PDAC Convention at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre (MTCC) March 6 to 8 may be making fewer deals than in previous years, but they’ll have plenty of opportunities for commiserating with old friends about one of the worst d

South African mining engineering consulting group Bluhm Burton Engineering has opened an office in Sudbury to serve its Canadian client base and hired Dr.

BESTECH selected as lead engineering firm A new liquid sulfur dioxide plant to be built in Timmins by Texas-based Calabrian Corporation will provide gold mines in Northern Ontario and Québec with a local source of SO2 for neutralizing cyanide.