by tundric | Mar 23, 2026 | Mining News
There are weeks in the mining business when the ground shifts beneath you — not from a blast, but from a market. This past week was one of them. Across the world’s biggest mining companies, billions of dollars in stock value have evaporated since the onset of...
by tundric | Mar 21, 2026 | Mining News
For the prospectors, geologists, and small-time stakers who have spent the better part of a decade waiting for the market to come back to them, the mood at this year’s PDAC felt different. Gold prices aren’t just holding — they’re resetting at levels...
by tundric | Mar 20, 2026 | Mining News
For decades, the world has known it had a problem — and done very little about it. The rare earth metals that power electric vehicles, wind turbines, and defence systems have flowed almost entirely through Chinese processing facilities, leaving Western nations in a...
by tundric | Mar 20, 2026 | Mining News
Out in the bush, distance has always been the hidden cost of doing business. For the remote mine camps scattered across Northern Ontario’s vast hinterland — places where the nearest town might be a float plane ride away — staying reliably connected to head...
by tundric | Mar 20, 2026 | Mining News
In communities where a single exploration contract can mean the difference between a quiet winter and a working one, news out of Queen’s Park landed with real weight this week. The Ontario government has announced funding for 68 mineral exploration projects...
by tundric | Mar 19, 2026 | Mining News
Walk into any mine site, exploration camp, or mineral processing facility in Northern Ontario right now and you’ll hear the same quiet anxiety underneath the optimism about critical minerals and Ring of Fire potential — where are the people going to come from?...
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...
