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Nipissing MPP Vic Fedeli said the provincially-appointed Ring of Fire coordinator admitted to him that she has never set foot on the burgeoning mineral exploration camp in the James Bay lowlands.
He is accusing the McGuinty government of mismanaging the Ring of Fire mining development in the James Bay lowlands. Kaszycki was a guest speaker at a professional engineers luncheon in North Bay, Jan. 27.
Fedeli, who attended the event as the Ontario Progressive Conservative Energy Critic, introduced himself to Kaszycki and spoke of his experience in the exploration camp last year. He flew up to the region with Muskoka MPP Norm Miller last August for one day to tour the area.
The Ring of Fire is roughly 530 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay and is the site of a cluster of world class, multi-generational chromite deposits. Chromite is processed into ferrochrome which is used in the making of stainless steel.