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...
