Mining Life & Exploration News Summer 2021

With Ontario having entered Stage 3 of reopening, I know that everyone is looking forward to getting back to normal as much as possible. We’ve had to postpone two consecutive Big Events and plans are already underway to re-establish the in-person version for the 2022 event, so stay tuned to our website for updates on that front.

In the interim, we here at Canadian Trade-Ex and Mining Life & Exploration News successfully held our first ever virtual conference earlier this summer and I am delighted to say that the response from both delegates and exhibitors was overwhelmingly positive. We have a long history of connecting buyers, suppliers, educators, indigenous groups, and government officials with the right people.

At Canadian Trade-Ex, we invested heavily in developing our own virtual platform we called Virtex – the web-based virtual trade show system that we used for the Mining The Abitibi Virtual Conference in June.

Throughout this publication you’ll read excerpts from that event and it is undeniably true that the vast region known as the Abitibi Greenstone Belt has billions of dollars in untapped potential – something we’ve used as an underlying theme for our Big Event trade shows for many years.

There’s no better place to stay on top of what northern Ontario and northwestern Quebec has to offer than our flagship online website, MiningLifeOnline.net.

The next best thing is this magazine. If you missed the Mining The Abitibi Virtual Event, the articles in this edition of Mining Life are full of powerful insight into the continued upward trajectory of companies like Kirkland Lake Gold and Wesdome, and the exciting exploration activities of companies like Wallbridge Mining, Canada Nickel Company, and Galleon Gold just to name a few. Timmins, a city in the heart of all the excitement, is seeing the biggest economic boom in more than half a century. Real estate sales are skyrocketing. IAMGOLD’s Côté Gold project south of Timmins is well underway. The city is now home to Kirkland Lake Gold’s Canadian Operations Centre. Glencore has finally confirmed a story that we broke more than two years ago, that they are going to develop “Mine 5” at the historic Kidd Creek Mine.

When you add the exciting discovery and impending development of the Crawford Township Canada Nickel project, you have a recipe for excitement, prosperity, and much more.

We’re glad to be a part of it. We think it’s just the beginning.

Publisher, Glenn Dredhart