by tundric | Mar 27, 2026 | Mining News
There’s a particular kind of person who understands what it means when a young person from Timmins or Sudbury or Kirkland Lake decides to study geology or mine engineering — someone who’s lived the industry, felt the pull of the North, and knows that the...
by tundric | Mar 27, 2026 | Mining News
There’s a particular kind of confidence that comes when a junior explorer decides to double down on the Shield — not because it’s easy, but because they believe the ground is telling them something worth listening to. That’s the story behind...
by tundric | Mar 27, 2026 | Mining News
In a region where the difference between a mine that succeeds and one that doesn’t can come down to whether the right technology reaches the right hands at the right time, a new partnership between two of Canada’s most focused innovation organizations...
by tundric | Mar 27, 2026 | Mining News
When gold climbs more than 60% in a single year and keeps climbing, it isn’t just a number on a trading screen — it’s the sound of drills turning in Timmins, of exploration camps reopening in the Abitibi, of communities that have lived and died by the gold...
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...
by tundric | Mar 26, 2026 | Mining News
Somewhere in Northern Ontario, tucked in the back of a mining company office or stacked floor to ceiling in a forgotten warehouse, sits the geological story of a discovery that hasn’t happened yet. Decades of drill logs, assay results, and hand-drawn maps — some...
