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Achievement lies not so much in reaching a destination, but in the journey to get there. Minds shift and old habits die off, while healthier practices are adopted along the road. It takes hard work and energy to change ingrained patterns.

The Ministry of Northern Development and Mines (MNDM) is launching an Electronic Assessment System (EAS) to allow mining claim holders in Ontario to file assessment reports online.

The Ontario Exploration and Geoscience Symposium is pulling up stakes and heading north. Future symposia, including the one scheduled for December 12 and 13, will be held in Sudbury, said Garry Clark, president of the Ontario Prospectors Association.

A follow-up to the $10-million Discover Abitibi geoscience study may be in the offing.

In the 1967 movie, The Graduate, a young college graduate played by Dustin Hoffman runs into an older gentleman at a cocktail party who recommends a career in the plastics business.

The Ontario Mining Association (OMA) has launched a compressed air leak management study to help member companies save money and conserve energy.

A Sudbury company hopes to have a working prototype of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) ready for testing in an underground mining environment next year.

Redpath Group employees who are getting close to retirement are beginning to have second thoughts.

Shotcrete Plus, a Sudbury distributor and supplier of shotcrete products and services, has struck a deal with Condor Support-tech Ltd. of Zhengzhou, China, to manufacture its shotcrete machines for the North American market.

Inco Limited began generating its own hydropower 100 years ago at about the same time that Ontario introduced legislation bringing electrical power into the public domain.