by tundric | Mar 19, 2026 | Mining News
In Red Lake, a town whose identity has been shaped by gold for nearly a century, the Madsen Mine is quietly writing a new chapter. Pure Gold Mining fought hard to bring Madsen back to life, and the road was not without pain — but the deposit beneath that ground has...
by tundric | Mar 19, 2026 | Mining News
Deep underground, where the air is already thin and the rock closes in from every side, diesel exhaust has long been one of those quiet, grinding hazards that miners simply learned to live with. That calculus is changing fast. As regulators tighten exposure limits and...
by tundric | Mar 19, 2026 | Mining News
In the camps and offices strung across Northern Ontario’s gold country — from Timmins to Red Lake to the shores of Lake Superior — the gold price isn’t just a number on a screen. It’s the difference between a mine that runs three shifts and one that...
by tundric | Mar 19, 2026 | Mining News
Every mine that ever opened in Northern Ontario did so because someone believed — sometimes against all reason — that what lay beneath the rock was worth the fight to get at it. The Canadian Mining Hall of Fame exists to remember those people, and every year it asks...
by tundric | Mar 18, 2026 | Mining News
There’s a reason people in Northern Ontario mining circles have grown weary of permitting timelines — projects that should take years have taken decades, and communities that were counting on the jobs and royalties learned to stop holding their breath....
by tundric | Mar 18, 2026 | Mining News
There’s a quiet reckoning happening in the world of mining finance, one that doesn’t make headlines the way a new gold discovery does, but carries just as much consequence for the future of projects across Northern Ontario. The message delivered at PDAC...
by tundric | Mar 18, 2026 | Mining News
Down in the drifts of Northern Ontario’s hard rock mines, something is shifting — the low rumble of diesel engines is slowly giving way to the quiet hum of electric motors, and the air is cleaner for it. That underground revolution is exactly what draws hundreds...
by tundric | Mar 17, 2026 | Mining News
There is nothing romantic about rod handling at forty below. It is heavy, repetitive, unforgiving work — and for decades, it has been the backbone of every drill program that has ever put a new mine on the map in Northern Ontario. But the people who do that work are...
by tundric | Mar 16, 2026 | Mining News
There’s a reason people in Sudbury, Timmins, and along the shores of James Bay have been paying close attention to Washington lately. Every policy decision coming out of the U.S. — every dollar aimed at locking in a domestic supply of critical minerals — sends a...
by tundric | Mar 16, 2026 | Mining News
When billions of dollars move into mining finance, the ripple reaches places like Timmins, Sudbury, and the frozen promise of the Ring of Fire. Orion Resource Partners has closed its Mine Finance Fund IV at $2.2 billion — its largest single fundraise ever — pushing...
