by tundric | Mar 16, 2026 | Mining News
In a small town on the north shore of Lake Huron, a quarry operator is quietly rewriting the way it moves rock — and in doing so, telling a story about where extractive industry is heading. The trap rock quarry outside Bruce Mines, a community whose mining roots...
by tundric | Mar 16, 2026 | Mining News
In the boreal heartland of Northwestern Ontario, where the English-Wabigoon River system still carries the memory of mercury poisoning that devastated Grassy Narrows First Nation for generations, a new battle is unfolding — this one over gold, jurisdiction, and who...
by tundric | Mar 16, 2026 | Mining News
Underground, every second counts. The miners who go down into the rock beneath Northern Ontario do so knowing that when something goes wrong — a fire, a collapse, a toxic gas pocket — the people standing between them and catastrophe are their own colleagues, trained...
by tundric | Mar 16, 2026 | Mining News
In Northern Ontario, where the history between mining companies and First Nations communities has often been marked by broken promises and hard lessons, the word “reconciliation” gets used carefully — or it should be. When a First Nation steps forward and...
by tundric | Mar 16, 2026 | Mining News
Seven years is a long time to wait for answers. For the family and coworkers of a miner who lost his life in a Northern Ontario mine in 2019, the announcement that a coroner’s inquest will finally convene this April carries the full weight of that wait — every...