by tundric | Mar 16, 2026 | Mining News
When more than 32,000 people walk through the doors of a single mining convention, it means something bigger than deal flow and handshakes — it means the world is paying attention to the ground beneath our feet. PDAC 2026 just wrapped in Toronto with a...
by tundric | Mar 16, 2026 | Mining News
For decades, the Ring of Fire has existed somewhere between promise and purgatory — a vast chromite-rich mineral belt in the James Bay Lowlands that Northern Ontario communities have been told, again and again, is just around the corner. But something has shifted in...
by tundric | Mar 16, 2026 | Mining News
When a Thunder Bay company walks into the world’s biggest mining convention and draws a crowd, it means something. PDAC 2026 is the kind of stage where junior explorers pitch billion-dollar dreams and global majors scout their next acquisition — and yet there...
by tundric | Mar 16, 2026 | Mining News
In communities built on extraction — where the boom-and-bust rhythm of mining has shaped generations — the instinct to diversify is hard-won and deeply practical. Northern Ontario businesses, many of them forged in the supply chains of the mining industry, are now...
by tundric | Mar 16, 2026 | Mining News
There’s a quiet confidence building in Northern Ontario’s mining sector — and now, the people telling those stories are reaching audiences they’ve never reached before. The Chronicle-Journal reports that efforts are underway to tap into a global...
by tundric | Mar 16, 2026 | Mining News
In a small town on the north shore of Lake Huron, a quarry operator is quietly rewriting the way it moves rock — and in doing so, telling a story about where extractive industry is heading. The trap rock quarry outside Bruce Mines, a community whose mining roots...
by tundric | Mar 16, 2026 | Mining News
In the boreal heartland of Northwestern Ontario, where the English-Wabigoon River system still carries the memory of mercury poisoning that devastated Grassy Narrows First Nation for generations, a new battle is unfolding — this one over gold, jurisdiction, and who...
by tundric | Mar 16, 2026 | Mining News
Underground, every second counts. The miners who go down into the rock beneath Northern Ontario do so knowing that when something goes wrong — a fire, a collapse, a toxic gas pocket — the people standing between them and catastrophe are their own colleagues, trained...
by tundric | Mar 16, 2026 | Mining News
In Northern Ontario, where the history between mining companies and First Nations communities has often been marked by broken promises and hard lessons, the word “reconciliation” gets used carefully — or it should be. When a First Nation steps forward and...
by tundric | Mar 16, 2026 | Mining News
Seven years is a long time to wait for answers. For the family and coworkers of a miner who lost his life in a Northern Ontario mine in 2019, the announcement that a coroner’s inquest will finally convene this April carries the full weight of that wait — every...
