Douglas Baldwin is a retired history professor from Acadia University, Nova Scotia. This piece has been adapted from his new book, Cobalt: Canada’s Forgotten Silver Boom Town. To order the book, click here: http://wmpub.ca/8094-SilverBoom.html Speaking to the Empire Cub in Toronto in 1909, Rev. Canon Tucker told the story of a widely-travelled American who was asked …
https://www.workplacesafetynorth.ca/ June 11, 2016 – Mine rescue volunteers from Compass Minerals Goderich Mine were crowned with gold hard hats by Ontario Mine Rescue, a part of Workplace Safety North (WSN), as the overall winners of the 67th annual Provincial Mine Rescue Competition in Sudbury, June 9 and 10. The Compass Minerals mine rescue team consisted …
http://www.thewhig.com/ Looking at the countryside, the geological sage saw more than soil and granite, more than batholiths and schist. Willet Green Miller “read the secrets of the rocks and opened the portal for the outpouring of their wonderful riches.” Joining Queen’s College as professor of geology and petrography in 1893, Miller was later appointed Ontario’s …
Established in 1980, Northern Ontario Business provides Canadians and international investors with relevant, current and insightful editorial content and business news information about Ontario’s vibrant and resource-rich North. Dave Robinson is an economist with the Institute for Northern Ontario Research and Development at Laurentian University.drobinson@laurentian.ca Northern MP’s have come to a time of reckoning. They hold …
This speech was given at the Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association (NOMA) on April 26, 2013 in Thunder Bay, Ontario. CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY I want to start with a simple statement: Northern Ontario can do better. I’ve done about 100 town halls now, including several in the North. And as I travel the province, people tell …
Established in 1980, Northern Ontario Business provides Canadians and international investors with relevant, current and insightful editorial content and business news information about Ontario’s vibrant and resource-rich North. The process to operate an open pit mine adjacent to Timmins’ downtown core has been a long and difficult one. Goldcorp’s Hollinger project involves a 250-acre fenced property housing …
TORONTO, ONTARIO, Jul 18, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Solid Gold Resources Corp. (“Solid Gold”) Mission: Regional Gold Exploration at Lake Abitibi, Ontario, Canada “Certainty of title and access to Crown land is paramount to our industry, but only the Crown can provide the certainty required to secure major investment to develop projects like the …
The Toronto Star, has the largest circulation in Canada. The paper has an enormous impact on federal and Ontario politics as well as shaping public opinion. Ontario is planning to kill its promise to protect an ecological gem — an old-growth forest near Temagami. The Ministry of Natural Resources wants to change the “forest reserve” designation for …
The following excerpts are from the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario’s 2009/2010 Annual Report Redefining Conservation Business News Network Anchor Reporter Andrew Bell interviews Ontario’s Environmental Comissioner Gord Miller (September 22, 2010) about the government’s conflicting goals of protecting half of the boreal forest while encouraging mine development in the red hot Ring of Fire in …
Prospecting and Developing Ontario has become one of the most fortunate and richest regions of the world primarily for two reasons. It has vast natural resources including mineral deposits of untold potential. The increasingly complex skills and knowledge necessary for the discovery and development of these deposits have been acquired, refined and applied vigorously by …
Northern Life, Greater Sudbury’s community newspaper, gave Republic of Mining.com permission to post these articles. www.northernlife.ca A government funded $20-million mining innovation centre that will be built at the University of Toronto has key players in Sudbury’s mining industry fuming. “It was almost like a covert operation,” said Richard DeStefano, executive director of the Sudbury …
Robert (Bob) Stuart Middleton, P.Eng., was born on July 7, 1944 in Hamilton, ON to parents, Florence Ironside (born in Troy, ON) and Mearle Middleton (born in Lucknow, ON). He passed away from heart failure on November 19, 2021 at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre in Thunder Bay, ON at 77 years of …
With great sadness, Barrick Gold founder Peter Munk passed away today. Last Spring I wrote a lengthy essay on who should be included in a historic Top Ten List of Canadian Mining Men. Peter Munk made the number one spot. Here is why. – Stan Sudol 1) Peter Munk – Canada’s Godfather of Gold (Barrick Gold) …
http://qahn.org/quebec-heritage-news The Timmins family was among the many Montreal families who chose to holiday in Ste. Agathe in the early part of the 20th Century. Henry and Noah Timmins, two inseparable brothers who had married two sisters, purchased a part of the farm of Adolphe Marier in 1915, on what was then called Chemin du …
An edited version of this list was published in the February/March issue of the Canadian Mining Journal. Four Americans Made the List! A few months ago, my dear colleague Joe Martin, who is the Director of the Canadian Business & Financial History Initiative at Rotman and President Emeritus of Canada’s History Society, asked me a …
