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...
by tundric | Mar 16, 2026 | Mining News
There’s a quiet kind of alarm in watching a mine sit still. No hoist moving, no ore coming up, no shift changes — just a headframe standing against the sky while the rest of the world scrambles for the very metal buried beneath it. That’s the reality at...
by tundric | Mar 16, 2026 | Mining News
There’s a conversation happening right now that cuts to the heart of what Northern Ontario’s mineral wealth could mean — not just for the economy, but for the security of nations. A two-day forum focused on the intersection of critical minerals and the...
by tundric | Mar 16, 2026 | Mining News
For the small city of Marathon on the north shore of Lake Superior, the question has never really been about the metal in the ground — everyone who knows this country knows it’s there. The question has always been whether someone would finally commit to pulling...
by tundric | Mar 16, 2026 | Mining News
Anyone who has spent time in the mining camps and exploration offices of Northwestern Ontario knows the frustration well — a promising discovery sits in the ground for years, sometimes decades, while the clock ticks and the money bleeds. The gap between finding...
