by tundric | Apr 10, 2026 | Mining News
Deep beneath the Canadian Shield near Dubreuilville, workers are sinking a shaft that tells the story of where Northern Ontario’s gold sector is headed — not just deeper into the earth, but into a future built on long-term investment and the kind of confidence...
by tundric | Apr 10, 2026 | Mining News
There’s a particular kind of quiet that sits over small Northern Ontario communities — the kind that comes from watching promise arrive and leave again, generation after generation. Red Rock, a township on the north shore of Lake Superior that has seen its share...
by tundric | Apr 10, 2026 | Mining News
Deep in the subarctic muskeg of Northern Ontario’s Ring of Fire, where the distances are immense and the stakes are generational, a junior miner is quietly making a significant move. New Age Metals has expanded its Northern Shield project to approximately 34,000...
by tundric | Apr 10, 2026 | Mining News
Thirty years is a long time in the mining business — long enough to watch booms turn to busts and back again, long enough to see entire communities rise and reinvent themselves around what comes out of the ground. This week, Thunder Bay is marking that milestone as...
by tundric | Apr 10, 2026 | Mining News
Somewhere beneath the tailings piles and waste rock that dot the Northern Ontario landscape lies a second chance — billions of dollars in critical minerals left behind by the extraction methods of another era. For the communities that have long staked their futures on...
by tundric | Apr 10, 2026 | Mining News
There’s a particular kind of miner you don’t often see at the big conventions — the one who’s spent weeks alone in the bush, staking claims by hand, running on coffee and conviction. They’re the ones who found this industry, and in many ways,...
by tundric | Apr 10, 2026 | Mining News
When a court ruling in British Columbia found that the province’s mineral claims system conflicts with its own landmark Indigenous rights legislation, it didn’t just shake up the mining industry on the West Coast — it sent a tremor through every boardroom,...
by tundric | Apr 10, 2026 | Mining News
There’s a moment in any exploration story when the rock starts talking — and at Howells Lake in northwestern Ontario, it’s saying something the defence industry very much wants to hear. Critical One Energy has drilled its first modern hole at the project...
by tundric | Apr 10, 2026 | Mining News
In the mining towns strung across Northern Ontario’s Canadian Shield — from Timmins to Kirkland Lake — the price of gold isn’t an abstraction. It’s the difference between a mine that hires and a mine that closes, between a community that grows and...
by tundric | Apr 10, 2026 | Mining News
There’s a moment when a province stops just talking about the critical minerals economy and starts actually building it — and Rock Tech’s $144 million investment in an Ontario lithium hydroxide plant feels like one of those moments. For a region that has...
