Stan Sudol
Stan Sudol is a Toronto-based journalist, communications consultant/mining strategist, speechwriter and freelance mining columnist for the Sudbury Star. His most recent column is about Sudbury’s mining clusters: http://www.thesudburystar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3445793
He has been published in a variety of Canadian and Australian print/web media including, the Globe and Mail, National Post, Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, Canadian Mining Journal and Australian Mining Monthly.
Mr. Sudol also produces a pro-mining blog called: www.republicofmining.com.
In October, 2011, Australian-based Mining IQ, a mining guide and international learning and communications portal, put RepublicOfMining.com on its list of Top 10 Mining Blogs, one of only two Canadian sites to be included.
Mining IQ says, “This blog [RepublicOfMining.com] aims to build awareness among the media, the general public and political decision makers about the economic and social benefits of sustainable mining practices in the 21st Century. It has a really admirable mission statement and it rings true with the content on the site.”
Mining IQ continues, “We especially like the variety of categories available on the site with commentary from aboriginal mining to mining education and from women in mining through to green mining. Stan Sudol has hit the nail on the head with his enlightened approach.” For the entire top 10 mining blog list: http://www.miningiq.com/mining/articles/mining-industry-blogs-the-pick-of-the-crop-reveale/
Blogger Stan Sudol was recently published in the Financial Post’s prestigious op/ed page giving RepublicOfMining.com national exposure. The topic was the controversial Far North Act: http://opinion.financialpost.com/2011/12/06/far-north-mischief/
On May 30, 2011, the Toronto Star – Canada’s largest circulation paper -published a lengthy op/ed piece by RepublicOfMining.com blogger Stan Sudol on northern Ontario’s dynamic Ring of Fire mining camp:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/998685–rails-to-the-ring-of-fire .
In a previous Toronto Star article on QuadraFNX’s new mine project in the Sudbury Basin, business reporter Lisa Wright quoted Mr. Sudol and highlighted the popularity of RepublicOfMining.com: http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1008142–victoria-s-secret-has-eyes-popping-in-canada-s-mining-industry .
RepublicOfMining blogger Stan Sudol was the recent keynote dinner speaker at the Ontario Prospectors Association Geoscience Symposium in Sudbury on November 8, 2011. To view his speech, please go to this site:
Sudbury Star media coverage of the speech can be found at these two links:
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The Canadian Business Ethics Research Network blog stated that RepublicOfMining.com is “The ultimate mining database” It continues, “A new blog is fast becoming a go-to resource for professionals and academics involved in the mining and resource extraction industries….Republic of Mining has in fact become a large, well-research repository for articles and information about Aboriginal mining issues within Canada and abroad.” (http://cbernblog.ca/2011/09/350/)
Dick DeStefano, Executive Director of the Sudbury Area Mining Supply and Service Association(SAMSSA) says,
“RepublicOfMining.com is an excellent resource for our mining supply and service technology clients and the historical profiles and latest information is an important asset in gathering intelligence on all facets of mining globally. Should be read by anyone in the mining business. Stan Sudol has done and is doing an admirable job in keeping us informed.”
Sudbury Star reporter Harald Carmichael extensively interview Stan Sudol for a major article on northern Ontario’s mining sector:
London Free Press reporter Chip Martin interviewed Stan Sudol for an article about Ontario’s booming mining sector:
http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2011/12/13/19119731.html
In a previoius op/ed column on the Canadian Mining Journal website titled: “A Mining Marshall Plan for Northern Ontario”, Mr. Sudol was encouraging mining policy discussions prior to the October 6, 2011 provincial election. This opinion piece also appeared in the August issue of Northern Ontario Business and the September issue of the Canadian Mining Journal.
In the August 25, 2005 edition of the National Post, an entire page was dedicated for a story he wrote on Inco’s WWII contributions, titled “Mining For Victory”:
During 2009/2010, Mr. Sudol was invited three times as a guest on TVO’s flagship current affairs program The Agenda with Steve Paikin to discuss northern Ontario economic and mining issues. The most recent appearance was for a one-on-one 12-minute interview with Mr. Paikin on the continuing mining strike in Sudbury. He has also appeared on the IDNR-TV mining program as well as been interviewed on CBC Radio, CHML and Radio-Canada.
Links to the three archived TVO programs are available here:
In mid-2009, a significant accolade was paid by Environics Research Group who interviewed Mr. Sudol for insights on mining and natural resources issues. They consider him an “opinion leader on issues related to mineral exploration and development by virtue of their work and writings on the subject over the years.”
In 2006, at the request of the Mayor of Greater Sudbury, Mr. Sudol produced a politically, high-profile policy document “Claiming Our Stake! Building a Sustainable Community” as a community response to the foreign takeovers of the two key local mining employers, Inco and Falconbridge. The policy document outlined local expectations from the new owners, as well as provincial and federal economic initiatives to enhance Sudbury’s globally significant cluster of mining expertise:
http://www.republicofmining.com/category/claiming-our-stake/
Mr. Sudol’s strategic communications skills and speechwriting expertise have been used in a number of Government of Ontario ministries including Finance, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development and Mines as well as many mining companies such as the former Inco Limited, Vale and Teck.
Many of his columns about resource issues and politics have encouraged local/national debate on economic strategies and priorities.
Stan Sudol was born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario, the richest mining district in North America and among the top ten most strategic on the planet. Surrounded by neighbours and family who worked in the mines, mills, smelters and refineries of one of the largest integrated nickel complexes in the world, it was only natural that he took an interest in the mining industry.
Mr. Sudol worked for Inco Metals Clarabell Mill for one year before going to college and spent one summer working underground at that company’s Frood-Stobie Mine.
He is a passionate supporter of the mining industry and its ability to create enormous wealth and alleviate poverty, especially in Canada’s northern Aboriginal communities.
