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Prior to 1979, the law forbade women to work in underground production in Ontario mines.

Nearly 20 years and $1 billion later, Ontario’s first diamond mine is in full production.

A team of Vale procurement executives shared some big numbers with Canadian mining suppliers at standing room only meetings in Sudbury and Toronto in June.

Fuller Industrial, a Sudbury-based company specializing in pipe fabrication and rubber lining, has acquired a fully automated Rotoweld CNC welding machine for prefabrication of industrial pipe.

Walden Equipment, a Sudbury-based mining supplier, has acquired J&S Schmitz Overhauling and Manufacturing of Walford, 100 kilometres west of Sudbury.Both companies remanufacture underground equipment for the booming mining industry.

The award-winning video production team at Sudbury’s Science North has produced a high definition digital educational video for an international mining supplier. Caterpillar Inc.

Sudbury to host Metallurgical Conference in 2009 The Metallurgical Society has announced a call for papers for its August 2009 Metallurgy Conference in Sudbury.

The complex science that turns Sudbury’s copper and nickel-rich deposits into common everyday products is unveiled in Dynamic Earth’s newest attraction: Rocks to Riches.

Norguard Industries Inc. has created a new line of fall protection safety products. “We are now 100 per cent fall protection,” said Norm Desjardins, founder and president of the Sudbury-based company.

It’s hardly surprising that one of the largest geomechanics consulting groups in the world is based in Sudbury.Itasca Consulting Canada Inc.