by tundric | Mar 27, 2026 | Mining News
Walk into any mining town in Northern Ontario right now — Timmins, Kirkland Lake, Wawa — and you’ll find people watching gold prices the way farmers watch the sky. When gold dips, the questions start. Are projects getting shelved? Are crews getting cut? So when...
by tundric | Mar 27, 2026 | Mining News
There’s a particular kind of silence that falls over a mine at the end of its life — not just the quiet of stilled equipment, but the deeper stillness of a community reckoning with what comes next. That silence is now settling over Diavik, where Rio Tinto has...
by tundric | Mar 26, 2026 | Mining News
For decades, the quiet risk of cyanide has sat at the heart of gold mining — tucked inside tailings ponds, buried in environmental assessments, and hovering over every community downstream from a processing facility. It works, everyone knows it works, but the pressure...
by tundric | Mar 26, 2026 | Mining News
When the price of oil spikes and global conflict drags on, it’s easy to think the shockwaves stop somewhere far from the boreal forests and rock cuts of Northern Ontario. They don’t. A new analysis from Bloomberg Intelligence is warning that a prolonged...
by tundric | Mar 26, 2026 | Mining News
In the camps and boardrooms of Northern Ontario’s gold country, few things get watched more closely than the price of gold — and this past weekend, that number moved in ways that had people paying attention. Spot gold tumbled to its lowest point of 2026 before...
