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Sudbury letter: Ring of Fire progresss – minister – by Michael Gravelle (Sudbury Star – March 14, 2016)

March 14, 2016

http://www.thesudburystar.com/

Michael Gravelle is the current Minister of Northern Development and Mines.

Minister Gravelle was in charge this ministry when Cliffs Natural Resources became so frustrated with Ontario government inaction, incompetence and inept mining policy that the company decided cancel its proposed $3.3 billion chromite investment in the Ring of Fire, permanently damaging the province’s international reputation in mining circles. – Stan Sudol

Thank you for the opportunity to respond to Stan Sudol’s recent guest column regarding development in the Ring of Fire (“PM can save project,” The Sudbury Star, Tuesday, March 8).

The Ring of Fire presents a historic opportunity to drive positive economic outcomes for the region, the province and Canada as a whole. Its smart, responsible and sustainable development must include strong commitments to improve the living conditions of people and infrastructure surrounding the Ring of Fire.

Realizing the full potential of the region will require collaboration from several partners, including the provincial and federal governments. However, our government has already driven much progress in laying the groundwork to drive development in the region.

2016 PDAC Bill Dennis Award Winners: Bruce Channel Discovery Team – Robert Cudney, Stephen Roman and John Whitton

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(L to R) Edward Thompson, PDAC Awards Committee Chair; Stephen Roman; Robert Cudney; John Whitton (Photo by Envisiondigitalphoto.com)

This award, named for a former president of the association, honours individuals who have accomplished one or both of the following: made a significant mineral discovery; made an important contribution to the prospecting and/or exploration industry.

Bruce Channel Discovery Team: For the discovery of gold at Bruce Channel in the Red Lake Gold Camp, Ontario.

Robert Cudney, Stephen Roman and John Whitton receive this award for their Bruce Channel discovery in the heart of the well-explored Red Lake Gold Camp in northwestern Ontario. It was discovered by Exall Resources Limited, which later became Gold Eagle Mines Ltd. after merging with Southern Star Resources Inc. With strategic input from professional geologist John Whitton, the deposit was estimated to contain approximately 14.1 to 16.5 million tonnes of gold, at a grade of roughly 20-25 grams per tonne. grams per tonne.

2016 PDAC Special Achievement Award Winners: The Bjorkman Family

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From time to time, the PDAC presents a Special Achievement Award that recognizes exceptional contributions to the mineral industry.

The Bjorkman Family: For their multi-generational dedication to geology, prospecting and diversity.

Bjorkman Prospecting is a long-standing Ontario-based prospecting company that has worked in locations all across Canada as well as internationally. Encouraged by his father, Karl Bjorkman started prospecting around 1990 and saw his business grow to include claim staking, exploration project management and technical support.

What Ontario needs to unlock Ring of Fire’s mineral wealth is a Marshall Plan – by Stan Sudol (Financial Post – March 10, 2016)

March 10, 2016

http://business.financialpost.com/

Stan Sudol is a Toronto-based communications consultant, mining policy analyst and publisher/editor of www.republicofmining.com.

Ontario’s “Ring of Fire” mineral belt, located in the province’s remote James Bay Lowlands, is thought to hold more than $60 billion of geological riches. When the belt was discovered in 2007, it was supposed to usher in a new era of prosperity for Northern Ontario, especially for the impoverished First Nations communities in the region.

Almost a decade later, the ore remains in the ground and doesn’t appear to be coming out anytime soon. Thanks to the Ontario government’s ineptitude, dysfunctional mining policy, lack of promised infrastructure spending and (to a much lesser extent) a broader commodity slump, American miner Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. left the province in frustration in 2013, permanently halting its proposed US$3.3-billion chromite project.

The ultimate indignity for Ontario came last year, when Cliffs sold its US$550-million investment in the Ring of Fire to junior miner Noront Resources Ltd. — the only significant player left in the area — for a bargain-basement price of US$27.5 million.

INVEST NORTH: Ontario and Canada Needs Full Inclusion of First Nations to Kick Start the Economy – by Ontario Regional Chief Isadore Day (Metro Toronto Convention Centre – March 7, 2016)

March 8, 2016

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“Great Father – My territory extends to [Michissiwton] there already have they found my rich things, but I know nothing of what is going on; I see the people pass and I hear what is said but I have no certain knowledge. I want always to live and plant at Garden River, and as my people are poor, to derive a share of what is found on my lands […] Already has the white man licked clean up from our lands the whole means of our subsistence, and now they commence to make us worse off, they take every thing away from us father […] Now my father, I called God to witness in the beginning and do so now again and say that it is false that the land is not ours, it is ours.” – Chief Shingwauk

FN colleagues, Chiefs (bosses), federal and provincial officials and friends – good morning. I bring greetings from my bosses, the Chiefs across Ontario as well as my friends and colleagues, the AFN National Executive and NC Perry Bellgarde who could not be hear.

Since the last PDAC convention, the relationship between Ontario, Canada and First Nations has improved dramatically. At the same time, the Canadian economy has continued to worsen and cause worry!

Companies already jockeying for first dibs on Ring of Fire infrastructure money – by Len Gillis (Timmins Daily Press – March 7, 2016)

March 8, 2016

http://www.timminspress.com/

There could be battle shaping up on who gets first dibs on the government infrastructure money that has been promised for the Ring Of Fire mining development in far Northern Ontario.

Speaking out the annual convention of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) now on in Toronto, Alan Coutts said his company is ready to move ahead with an all-season road for the project.

Coutts is the president and CEO of Noront Resources Ltd., one of the major players in the Ring Of Fire venture a large mining development located about 600 kilometres northwest of Timmins, in the remote McFaulds Lake area. The prospect is identified mainly as a chromite project, valued in the tens of billions of dollars.

Monday’s announcement by Coutts is at odds with an announcement made earlier this year by KWG Resources Inc, the other big player at the Ring Of Fire.

PM can save Ring of Fire – by Stan Sudol (Sudbury Star – March 8, 2016)

March 8, 2016

http://www.thesudburystar.com/

Sudbury Star columnist calls for a Trudeau ‘Marshall Plan’ for Ontario’s Ring of Fire

Ontario’s “Ring of Fire” mineral belt, located in the province’s remote James Bay Lowlands, is thought to hold more than $60 billion of geological riches. When it was discovered in 2007, it was supposed to usher in a new era of prosperity for Northern Ontario, especially for the impoverished First Nations communities in the region.

At the present time, Noront is focused primarily on its bankable Eagles Nest nickel/copper/PGM property, valued at about $10 billion, which can be developed only if a proposed east-west road is built into the mining camp and has put its world-class chromite deposits on the backburner for the foreseeable future.

De Beers, Laurentian dig in on James Bay restoration plans – by Ella Myers (Northern Ontario Business – March 3, 2016)

March 4, 2016

http://www.northernontariobusiness.com/

For the past two summers, Keri Etherington has headed out into the bush in the James Bay Lowlands to collect native plant seeds.

“My favourite part of the job was being out on the land every day,” said the environmental technician student, who was raised in Moosonee. “To get to our seed collection spots, we would have to use the boat, helicopter, or four-wheeler, so this was always fun for me. If we were lucky, we would be able to see wildlife.”

The summer program is part of a joint project between De Beers’s Victor Mine and Laurentian University’s School of the Environment, to make native plant species seed available for the restoration of land around the mine.

[Ring of Fire] Four Rivers preparing communities for development – by Lindsay Kelly (Northern Ontario Business – March 3, 2016)

March 3, 2016

http://www.northernontariobusiness.com/

Development in the Ring of Fire is years away, but Indigenous communities in Matawa First Nations territory are strategically going about training their people so they’ll be ready for development when it arrives.

Since 2011, Four Rivers, Matawa’s First Nations Environmental Services Group, has provided the tribal council’s nine communities with information and resources to help them make decisions about the management of their natural resources.

“With everything that’s going to be happening, with the Ring of Fire, with mining activity, it’s really important that our First Nations are granted or given the opportunity to be autonomous in their jurisdictions over their lands,” said Beedahbin Desmoulin, Four Rivers’ interim manager of environmental programs.

MP Charlie Angus Ring of Fire Infrastructure Letter to Natural Resources Minister James Gordon Carr (March 2, 2016)

March 3, 2016

Charlie Angus is the NDP Federal Member of Parliament for Timmins-James Bay.

James Gordon Carr is the Liberal Federal Member of Parliament for Winnipeg South Centre and the Minister of Natural Resources.

The Ring of Fire provides a tremendous opportunity to unlock the economic potential of Northern Ontario, Ontario, and the entire Canadian economy. Federal leadership is sorely needed to move this project forward. I am writing to ask that this government ensure that the Ring of Fire is part of the promised commitment to infrastructure project across the country. As well, the Federal government has an important role to play in engaging in meaningful consultation with First Nation communities to ensure that all the benefits of this huge project leads to meaningful improvements in the lives of the people of the north.

The previous government’s lack of leadership on this issue was very unfortunate. There was no attempt to bring together the major players, there was no infrastructure plan, and there was no consultation with First Nations. In fact, then minister Tony Clement received a failing grade from the Ontario Chamber of Commerce.

Oban Mining aiming to be next Canadian mining house – by Lindsay Kelly (Northern Ontario Business – March 3, 2016)

March 3, 2016

http://www.northernontariobusiness.com/

Oban Mining wants to become Canada’s next great mining house.

Like the 14-year-old Scotch whiskey it’s named for, the executives at Oban Mining hope the company will only get better with age, satisfying even the most finicky of investor palates.

Launched by the same team that brought the Canadian Malartic gold mine online, Oban wants to be the next great Canadian mining house, and president-CEO John Burzynski doesn’t shy away from making bold statements about its plans.

“We intend to be the next Osisko Mining Corporation,” he said during a January presentation to the Sudbury Prospectors and Developers Association.

[Ontario] Finding riches in the rocks – by Susanna McLeod (Kingston Whig-Standard – March 2, 2016)

March 2, 2016

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 first Provincial Geologist. Earth science wasn’t just a job for Miller, it was his life blood.

When Miller arrived in Kingston at age 27, he was already immersed in geology. Born in Norfolk County in 1866, he was raised on the northern shores of Lake Erie. Receiving a good education, Miller attended high school at Port Rowan, then enrolled in Natural Science at University of Toronto. His initial aim was chemistry.

By graduation in 1890, Miller’s interests had expanded to earth science. “Luckily, the influence of his father, who was interested in all aspects of nature including trees, flowers and rocks, would inspire him to take geology and mineralogy courses,” said Miller Museum of Geology at Queen’s University. The student’s passion was sparked. He wanted to learn more.

Ring of Fire corridor ruling doesn’t excite Noront – by Staff (Northern Ontario Business – February 29, 2016)

February 29, 2016

http://www.northernontariobusiness.com/

A court ruling that opens up a prized overland route to the Ring of Fire was greeted with a shrug of the shoulders by Noront Resources, the leading mine developer in the remote exploration camp.

Though pleased with an Ontario appeals court decision that lifts KWG Resources’ exclusive hold on a vital north-south path of high ground into the James Bay lowlands, Noront president Al Coutts responded his company is more intent on driving a road from the west to reach their nickel deposit.

But it’s great to have options, he said. “It doesn’t really impact our plans going forward because we’re focusing on that east-west corridor of development and the Eagle’s Nest deposit.”

‘Mother Nature’ making it tough for James Bay winter roads (CBC News Sudbury – February 29, 2016)

February 29, 2016

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/

About $2 million spent on winter roads that run between Attawapiskat and Smooth Rock Falls

This time of year it’s a lot easier to get around Ontario’s far north, thanks to winter roads — but those who build these transportation routes out of ice and snow say it’s getting harder as winters get warmer.

This year, a lack of snow and wonky weather in general, saw both the 170 km Wetum Road that runs south from Moose Factory and the ice road that runs along the James Bay Coast from Moosonee to Attawapiskat, delay opening until late January.

Peter Wesley, who manages the Wetum Road for Moose Cree First Nation, told CBC News there was so much pressure from the public that crews worked around the clock to get it ready.

Vale in Sudbury gets cap-and-trade ‘holiday’ – Canadian Press (Sudbury Star – February 27, 2016)

February 29, 2016

http://www.thesudburystar.com/

Ontario’s Liberal government has released details of its cap-and-trade program, which is expected to increase the price of gas and homeowners’ natural gas bills, but gives some of the biggest polluters — including Vale Ltd. — a four-year “holiday.”

The government is putting a price on carbon of about $18 a tonne and capping emission allowances at roughly 142 metric tonnes per year in 2017, when the plan rolls out, according to a series of details contained both in Thursday’s budget and in draft regulations posted by the environment ministry.

The cap is expected to decline 4.17 per cent each year to 2020, when the Liberals hope to have achieved a 15-per-cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions over 1990 levels.