by tundric | Mar 26, 2026 | Mining News
Every shift that ends safely in Northern Ontario’s mines is the result of decisions made long before a miner ever descends underground — decisions shaped by training, culture, and the kind of hard-won knowledge that only gets shared when the right people are in...
by tundric | Mar 26, 2026 | Mining News
When war disrupts the arteries of global trade, the tremors reach places you might not expect — including the gold camps and processing facilities scattered across Northern Ontario’s boreal shield. The conflict involving Iran is choking off a key refining...
by tundric | Mar 26, 2026 | Mining News
Somewhere in a boardroom in Beijing, decisions are being made about the minerals sitting beneath the muskeg and Precambrian rock of Northern Ontario — and the people living closest to those deposits deserve to understand what that means for their futures. A new report...
by tundric | Mar 26, 2026 | Mining News
When a mining company changes hands, it isn’t just a transaction between boardrooms — it’s a moment that ripples outward into the communities, contractors, and workers whose lives are built around that operation. The completion of Coeur Mining’s...
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?...