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As 2017 comes to a close, APGO would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of Field Notes a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018.
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Northern Ontario Business
From April 20, 2017: Noront Resources has signed an exploration and project advancement agreement with the Marten Falls First Nation. The Ring of Fire developer said the agreement compensates the northern community for work that has been completed on their traditional land and outlines a one-year process that will be used to negotiate a pre-development agreement for the Eagles Nest nickel-copper-platinum-palladium mine located in the James Bay lowlands.
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Sault This Week
From Nov. 23, 2017: The president and chief executive officer says he has been working closely with all four of Noront's best prospects as host to a plant that would process ore from Ring of Fire chromite deposits in Northwestern Ontario.
But the first to benefit from Noront's Ring of Fire development will be one of two smelters in Sudbury.
Alan Coutts said in a telephone interview from Toronto that The City of Greater Sudbury, Timmins, Sault Ste. Marie and Thunder Bay (partnering with Fort Williams First Nation) all have been asked to present a "compelling case" to become a host site for a ferrochrome facility to deal with world-class deposits of chromite.
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CBC News
From March 9, 2017: A team of international scientists has found the oldest record of life on Earth in Northern Quebec, dating back at least 3.8 billion years.
Our solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago. Scientists believe that about 4.3 billion years ago, water already existed on Earth's surface. However, what isn't known is when the earliest life emerged. Recent research has found life at 3.4 billion years and, most recently 3.7 billion years.
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Timmins Today
From March 16, 2017: Federal Minister of Natural Resources Jim Carr, speaking at the opening ceremonies of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada 2017 convention, announced a new geological data base on the Ring of Fire, that will help mining companies identify ore bodies more readily and with less cost.
The database was produced in partnership with the Ontario Government.
"I am pleased to welcome you, this morning amid encouraging signs for mineral exploration," said Carr.
Some commodity prices have already started to rally and rebound and confidence is heading in the right direction, according to Minister Carr.
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Northern Ontario Business
From May 18, 2017: A new online inventory that catalogues abandoned and orphaned mines across Canada is now available to the public.
The inventory, released in April, is a project of the National Orphaned and Abandoned Mines Initiative (NOAMI). NOAMI was launched in 2002 in response to a request from mine ministers in federal, provincial and territorial jurisdictions to address issues related to orphaned and abandoned mines across the country.
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BBC News
From July 20, 2017: You're going to want to touch it; you're definitely going to want to run your fingers over its wavy lines.
This 2.5-tonne lump of rock will be one of the new star exhibits when London's Natural History Museum re-opens its front entrance-space in a couple of weeks' time.
The Hintze Hall has been closed for most of this year to allow the South Kensington attraction to remodel its welcome to visitors. Out has gone "Dippy" the diplodocus dinosaur, and in its place has come a massive skeleton of a blue whale.
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CBC News
From May 30, 2017: There's an old school gold rush underway in northern Ontario, but the demand is for a special metal that is used in everything from smart phones to electric cars.
More than a dozen mining companies are staking out claims in Cobalt, ON, as price of the mineral with the same name rises, according to the Northern Prospectors Association.
"The whole situation is a cobalt-style rush, just like an old-fashioned staking rush," said Gino Chitaroni, president of the Northern Prospectors Association and a geologist from the area.
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Globe and Mail
From Aug. 24, 2017: Development of the chromite-rich Ring of Fire region in northern Ontario is one step closer after the premier announced that agreements with First Nations are in place to start road construction in the area.
The provincial government has been talking with the chiefs of the Matawa First Nations for years, since it pledged $1 billion in 2014 to fund infrastructure into the area about 500 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay, ON.
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Sci-News
From May 11, 2017: New research has solved a long-standing mystery of how the world's biggest and most active volcanoes formed in Hawaii. The research, published recently in the journal Nature, involved an international team of geoscientists from the United States, Australia, U.K. and Denmark.
The study found that Hawaiian volcanoes formed along twin tracks — named the Loa and Kea tracks after the largest volcanoes in their sequence — due to a shift in the Pacific Plate's direction three million years ago.
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APGO
From June 22, 2017: It was another full house for APGO's 2017 AGM & Reception. The Association thanks the members and guest who came to join us at the event. APGO's CEO, Louis Kan quotes "My first APGO Annual General Meeting. Packed room, passionate membership, open and frank dialogue. Thank you to all those who attended. Look forward to seeing you again next year." Please click here to see the event's highlights.
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