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They may not win any Grammys for their singing but the glee team from Dumas Mining in Timmins put tremendous heart and soul into their performance on Global TV’s Canada Sings in early June. The emotional effort paid off.

Discovering a niche market in mining has helped Steve Clapp of Creative Photography expand into an area he never would have ventured.

Northern Ontario’s hot mining sector was the main reason Aquatech Dewatering and sister company Aquatech Pump and Power branched out to Sudbury last year, but it was also a homecoming for three of the company’s four senior executives.

Northern Ontario mining suppliers will be out in force at MINExpo 2012 in Las Vegas, September 24 to 26.

The City of Greater Sudbury hopes to persuade at least some of the 40,000 industry professionals attending MINExpo 2012 in Las Vegas September 24 to 26 to look at career opportunities in its booming mining cluster.

At Xstrata Copper’s Kidd Creek Mine in Timmins, employee suggestions for improvement have helped increase the life of the mine.

Goldcorp’s decision to turn a former producing mine into an open pit operation in Timmins created some extra challenges for the Vancouverbased miner.

Detour Gold Corporation’s Detour Lake open pit gold mine in northeastern Ontario remains on budget and on schedule for gold production to start in the first quarter of 2013.

Mohawk Garnet CEO Bob McMurdy eases a Ford Super-Duty truck up a bumpy, dirt road towards a massive dark grey building off Kukagami Road about 30 minutes east of Sudbury. He brings the vehicle to a halt just outside a garage door opening.

Sudbury-based Industrial Fabrication, manufacturer of the Minecat line of utility vehicles, is moving to a new, purpose-built production facility in September. The 37,000-square foot building on Fielding Rd.