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The following is an interview with Travis Fitzgerald, a customs broker and freight forwarder with George A.

A hand-printed sign bearing the message “Success isn’t how far you go, but the distance travelled from where you started” hangs in a place of honour in the office of Conrad Houle, founder of Tracks & Wheels Equipment Brokers Inc.

Second-year Lakehead University geology student Brad Wood made the type of discovery during the summer of 1987 that prospectors dream about.

Xstrata Nickel has contributed $2 million towards the construction of the Sustainable Energy Centre at Cambrian College in Sudbury.

A recent acquisition of one company and a closer relationship with another has turned out to be a smart move for North Bay’s Minesteel Fabricators.

How much could be saved by quadrupling the life of bucket blades, drill bits, skip liners and all the other metal components and equipment used in a mining operation to extract and process ore? Millions? Tens of millions? Dura 21, a Sudbury company s

The Sudbury area's status as a mining supply powerhouse wasn't always as obvious as it is today. In the late '70s, when nickel prices hit rock bottom and the city was pummeled by a succession of layoffs and strikes, doom and gloom predominated.

The Sudbury-based Northern Centre for Advanced Technology (NORCAT) has broken ground on a new 40,000 sq. ft. innovation and commercialization park at Cambrian College.

Mobile Parts Inc. is adding 24,000 square feet to its location in Sudbury in response to customer demand in the booming mining industry.

Remote mineral sensing technologies and helicopter-borne time domain electromagnetic surveys in particular received a lot of attention at the Exploration07 conference, held Sept. 9-12 in Toronto.