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Mining the North Shore (www.northernontariobusiness.com)North Shore towns prepare for mineral exploration Ready and waiting.For many North Shore communities, mining and mineral exploration could be a salvation from the devastation caused by the wave of forest mill closures.
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Sunrise Resources PLC - Long Lake Project (www.sunriseresourcesplc.com)On 4 May 2010 the Company acquired a three year option acquire a 100% interest in the previously producing Long Lake Gold Mine located 20km south-west of the City of Sudbury, Ontario (Canada).
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So you think you know mining video contest (oma.on.ca)Create a 2-3 minute video on the benefits of mining to society and submit it byﾠ April 16, 2010 and you could be a winner.ﾠ If you're a budding critic, vote on-line forﾠ the People's Choice Award and you'll be entered into a draw for an iPod!ﾠ Teachers -- there is now a prize on offer for the school that produces the top entry!
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4.Inco name fades into history (www.fairdealnow.ca)
Just like that, an iconic name with more than 100 years of history in Canadian business is gone.
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5.Willisville Mountain at risk (www.thesudburystar.com)
Willisville Mountain, the subject of an Ian Tamblyn song and inspiration for a 45-artist art project in 2009, is at risk of being lost due to a new Vale Inco aggregate quarry and crusher operation, according to a member of the La Cloche Mountains Preservation Society
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6.Vale's 'Other Side' -- Global Impacts and Violations (www.thesudburystar.com)
On May 4, the United Steelworkers released a dossier which documents the global impacts of the violations carried out by Vale.
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7.Nickel bonus is back at Vale Inco but company planning Sudbury-like offer (www.thompsoncitizen.net)
After a town hall style meeting, which was shown on Vale Inco’s intranet system and at various places at Manitoba Operations on May 6, Vale Inco announced that the nickel bonus will be making a comeback at Manitoba Operations.
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8.'I want my life back' - (www.thesudburystar.com)
Lise Levesque is no longer afraid to speak out.The wife of a striking Steelworker, Levesque is so fed up with the 10-month strike at Vale Inco, she says she really does not care what the consequences are.
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Ecuador: Kichwas Preparing to Defend Their Land Against Canadian Drilling : Intercontinental Cry (intercontinentalcry.org)At an historic assembly in Ecuador two weeks ago, roughly 1000 Kichwas "overwhelmingly" agreed to mobilize against the Calgary-based oil company Ivanhoe Energy
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Photos Steelworkers Block Entrances To Mines (www.northernlife.ca)Steelworkers Block Entrances To Mines
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11.Civil disobedience not the answer - (www.thesudburystar.com)
I remember the 1978 contract and another union official telling us, don't worry boys we will bring (the company) to its knees -- which we did nine months later.That was radical then, and Gerard's comments are no better now.
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12.Mining industry comes together for charity (www.thesudburystar.com)
The Miners for Cancer held an awards and cheque presentation ceremony at the Sudbury Mining Monument at Bell Park. The event wrapped up the 2010 Allan Epps Memorial Hockey Challenge hockey tournament held in Januar
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The Ring of Fire and the rebirth of Ontario mining (www.northernlife.ca)“For the 21st century, the discovery of chromite in the Ring of Fire could be as big as the discovery of nickel was in Sudbury in the 19th century,” the recent Ontario Budget speech boldly claimed
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'Full production' the goal (www.thesudburystar.com)When asked if those hundreds of people might come from Technica Mining, an underground mining and construction contractor based in Lively, Ball declined to say.
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Sudbury's Leo Gerard Speaks on West Virginia Coal Mining Disaster (the5thc.blogspot.com)Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers Pres: WV Coal-Giant Massey touts "UnionBuster" labe
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16.Six dead in Peru as police clash with miners - (ca.news.yahoo.com)
Six people died in Peru when police tried to clear a roadblock set by wildcat miners protesting the government's push to impose environmental controls on them, officials said Monday in the latest round of conflict over natural resources.
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Nickelled and damned (www.theglobeandmail.com)The bitter strike at a Canadian icon pits the new breed of global mining giant against a union clinging to the past
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18.Heading in opposite directions (www.ft.com)
in late 2006, just a few weeks after Vale, the Brazilian mining group, bought Inco, the Canadian nickel miner, for $17.6bn, a meeting between executives of the two companies hinted at a potentially difficult future.According to a former Inco exec-utive, the session ended abruptly with one of the Brazilians losing his temper. "How come, if you're so smart, you didn't take us over?" he snap-ped.
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California Open Pit Lockout (boraxminers.com)ILWU Local 30 who work at the US Borax/Rio Tinto mine in Boron, where we operate the largest open-pit mine in California
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2007 Archives: Brazilian People Say "No" to Private Mining (americas.irc-online.org)In a plebiscite organized by 200 social organizations, almost four million people demanded that the CVRD, the second largest mining company in the world, be put back in the hands of the Brazilian government.
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21.Bulkers: New twist in Vale tale (www.marinelog.com)
Reuters is reporting that Chinese shipbuilder Jiangsu Rongsheng Heavy Industries has won a $484 million deal to build four ships for Oman Shipping Co. The report says that they will carry exports from an iron ore pellet plant being built by Brazil's Companhia Vale do Rio Doce in northern Oman and expected to begin production in the second half of 2010
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Vale takes delivery of new tug (www.marinelog.com)Vale takes delivery of new tugBrazilian mining giant Vale recently held a naming ceremony for the harbor assist tug Sossego. Built in the Detroit Shipyard in Santa Catarina, it is the first of 51 vessels that Vale has ordered at Brazilian yards.
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Launching an underground rail system | New Rail-Veyor system allows marginal mineralization to become economical (www.northernontariobusiness.com)It only seems fitting that Greater Sudbury would be the testing site for a new underground mine technology that could change the face of deep mining forever
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Blackfire adding threats to injury in Mexico:MiningWatch (www.miningwatch.ca)A coalition of Canadian organizations is condemning the threatened use of NAFTA by Blackfire Exploration to extract 800 million dollars from the impoverished Mexican state of Chiapas.
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Mine Mill Local 598 - Canadian Auto Workers | CAW (www.minemill598.com)Local Xstrata union
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