70:, and other valuable minerals. Discovered in the early 21st century, the Ring of Fire is considered one of the most significant mineral deposits in Canada, with the potential to greatly impact the nation's economy and global mining industry. The development of this region has been a subject of ongoing debate, as stakeholders weigh the economic benefits against environmental concerns and the rights of Indigenous communities in the area. Despite these challenges, the Ring of Fire had remained a focal point for the Canadian mining sector and government, as well as international investors. By July 2023, the federal and provincial governments were no longer in agreement on priorities for federal funding of the Ring of Fire. Georgia Lake lithium project, KGHM's Victoria mine proposal and the Onaping Depth nickel project—which will produce minerals required for the low carbon economy—had become higher priorities, particularly as the Ring of Fire project is situated in a region of "vast, environmentally sensitive...peatlands".
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joint venture agreement with Bold
Ventures (TSX:BOL) on its $ 5 million Koper Lake Project. In February 2013, Richard Nemis, CEO of Bold Ventures, obtained a Marten Falls First Nation Land Use Permit to operate the camp using "three diamond drills provided by Cyr International Drilling and Orbit Garant Drilling" to carry out approximately 6,000 metres (20,000 ft) of diamond drilling on nickel‐copper and chromite targets. Operator Bold Ventures was required to cease drilling activities from March 31, 2012, until April 13, 2013, to ensure the First Nations' permit was granted under the Mining Act, and a permit issued by a Director of Exploration from the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines was obtained. Probe Mines owned the entire Victory Project, which consists of "452 claims totaling 7,232 hectares and covers the interpreted southeast extension of the McFauld's Lake" and the Tamarack Project which "comprises 360 claims covering over 5,700 hectares of the McFauld's Lake in the Ring of Fire".
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Resources announced that their ferrochrome smelter to process chromite extracted from the Ring of Fire in northwestern
Ontario, would be located in Sault Ste. Marie as a home for its. However, $ 60-billion Ring of Fire, a project, has been stalled as the newly-elected Ford administration has ended all negotiations with the nine Matawa First Nations in whose territory the Ring of Fire is located. The goodwill that stemmed from the 2014 regional framework agreement between the province of Ontario and the Matawa tribal council had quickly "evaporated" by 2018, according to Elizabeth Atlookan, Eabametoong First Nation Chief as the newly elected Conservative government worked "to "divide and conquer" by moving forward with projects, like road construction, in a piecemeal fashion, absent consultation with all Matawa nations."
224:). in September 2009. In October 2009, Noront Resources (NOT-V) made a hostile takeover bid for Freewest Resources (FWR-V). In November 2009, Cliffs Natural Resources (CLF-N), the world's largest iron ore pellet supplier, purchased Freewest Resources' share of the chromite-rich "high-grade Black Thor, Black Label and Big Daddy deposits in the remote "Ring of Fire" metals" for $ 240 million. In November 2009, Joseph Carrabba, Cliffs' president and CEO, claimed the "world-class deposits" had the "potential to support an open pit mine producing 1 to 2 million tonnes per year for more than thirty years". Carrabba announced that the ore would be "further processed into 400,000–800,000 tonnes of ferrochrome". The purchase was finalized in 2010.
675:, said that the regional framework agreement negotiated in 2014 under between the province and the nine Matawa First Nations, had cost over $ 20 million and that funding had run out for the agreement in late 2018. Rickford said he was taking a more "pragmatic" approach with the goal of removing delays to projects, with the north-south corridor that at the top of the list. Rickford wants to work on a series of bilateral agreements with individual communities that would "not only could lead to road access to the mineral-rich James Bay lowlands, but can also connect by road, as well as add to the provincial power grid and expand modern telecommunications to, 'at least four, five Indigenous communities.'" In a
481:—in talks with the Ontario government about the opening of First Nations lands to the Ring of Fire development. Noront's Eagle's Nest copper and nickel mine and the Black Thor chromite mine of Cliffs Natural Resources would generate wealth and royalties for Ontario, but the mines are in a remote region. They will "require significant development to make them viable". "evelopment that will have a profound effect on the local native communities, five of which are not yet accessible by road." By 2014, a "regional-framework agreement between the Matawa Tribal Council was the provincial government was reached. Retired
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714:, with a potential of generating $ 120 billion. Clement says the Ring of Fire represents a "once-in-a-life opportunity to create jobs and generate growth and long-term prosperity for northern Ontario and the nation". Challenges facing the development of the Ring of Fire mineral include lack of access to the remote region, infrastructure deficits such as roads, railway, electricity and broadband, First Nations land rights, and environmental issues in the
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Ontario government has said it is “continuing to make progress in a corridor to prosperity (roadway) to the 'Ring of Fire' region." Toronto-based consultant, Stan Sudol, added that the government should “accelerate road development into the Ring of Fire”, as it currently undergoes an Indigenous-led environmental assessments by Marten Falls and Webequie First Nations who support the mining project.
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communities have not completed high school". Three of the nine local Matawa First
Nations were "under financial intervention (co-management)". Matawa First Nations lack "exposure to a development of this magnitude combined with low educational attainment and other factors suggests that the communities do not currently have the capacity to address the various issues related to the Ring of Fire".
390:. In an April 2013 interview, Moe Lavigne, VP of KWG Resources, a former Ontario Geological Survey geologist, said that the federal government would consider Tetra Tech's findings. Lavigne, said that they had staked mining claims to eventually build the railroad and make their stranded assets "viable." Lavigne said that "Ontario's Mining Act would safeguard his company's corridor claims."
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other stakeholders, the company says its design will be the first mine to have all its tailings remain underground and “100% of process plant water will be recycled to minimize the discharge of effluents.” Further, it is reported to reach commercial production 3 years after permits are received and its mine life is expended to be 11 years, with the possibility of an additional 9.
2601:"Matawa Chiefs are in a state of disbelief about the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency's (CEAA) decision to side with industry by choosing a Comprehensive Study Environmental Assessment (EA) process for the Cliff's Chromite Project near Webequie and Marten Falls First Nations". Thunder Bay, Ontario: Matawa First Nations. 13 October 2011.
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Richard Nemis, a Sudbury-born lawyer became a mining promoter, founder and past-President of Noront Resources Ltd. with John Harvey, Don Hoy, Neil Novak and Mac Watson. Nemis stepped down
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Giacovazzi, noted that de-carbonizing the economy is a priority for Wyloo, stating that the company “started spending a lot of time looking at things like electric vehicles and batteries, and that sort of led us down the path of nickel.” The metals company will commit $
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Georgia Lake lithium project, KGHM's Victoria mine proposal and the Onaping Depth nickel project were a higher priority than the Ring of Fire for federal investment. The Ring of Fire is situated in a region of "vast, environmentally sensitive...peatlands". The federal government's goal
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Nations were interested in potential legacy impacts of Ring of Fire infrastructure, such as all-weather roads, links to the power grid and high-speed broadband Internet. Industry Canada's Broadband Canada was already laying 2,300 kilometers of fibre optic cable to 26
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issued a joint statement welcoming Rickford's announcement. Marten Falls is the proponent of an environmental assessment for the first stage of an access road connecting the community to an all-season road. On the same day, Noront announced that they had issued "300,000 shares to Marten Falls First
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interview he said that, the transportation corridor would have "additional health and social and economic benefits that move beyond the more obvious opportunities of creating mines ... To the extent that Noront or other mining companies could build mines on that corridor, then we have a great
627:, which is one of the goals of the Missanabie First Nation. The invitation for the April 5 event announced a discussion on the merits of "making ferrochrome in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan for a new North American stainless steel joint-venture with Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario." Sault Ste. Marie's Mayor
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Chief Eli Moonias described how over a seven-year period, Noront Resources "sunk machines here and they have done outrageous acts here". In the fall of 2009, the companies "used a helicopter to break ice here with a log". On February 3, 2010, Noront Resources Ltd. was trying to build a " strip here
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In January 2021, the Australian company Wyloo Metals, announced its intent to acquire a controlling interest in Noront Resources. Wyloo’s offer of $ 0.70 a share (CAD), trumped the competing offer of $ 0.55 (CAD) a share made by BHP group. In March 2022, Noront Resources shareholders, with a 98.9
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In an interview with CBC on 27 June 2013, Les Louttit, the deputy grand chief of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation, the group that represents the nine First Nations, argued that serious problems have been neglected for decades. Two to three years is not enough time for skills training to train locals for
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On October 20, 2011, Matawa First Nations removed its support for the Ring of Fire development unless the federal government agreed to a joint review panel Environmental Assessment process that would allow First Nations communities in the area to have a voice in the assessment. In May 2019 Noront
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at local & regional level" from "linear constructions" such as roads. Despite state-of-the-art technology, environmental risks of underground pipelines in the wetlands, excluding the risk of leaks, include alterations of "hydrology, thermal regime, soil structure and vegetation of ecosystem".
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Canada needs to deal with the acknowledged and widespread problems of inadequate First Nation's social and community infrastructure. To this end, there needs to be an immediate investment in the First Nations communities located in the Ring of Fire area so that a healthy and skilled First Nations
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In 2011, environmental assessments by the Canadian federal and Ontario provincial governments began for Cliffs Natural Resources' proposed Black Thor Project and Noront Resources's Eagles Nest Project, with both companies volunteering "to make their projects subject to an environmental assessment
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According to Carrabba the area of the Ring of Fire that Cliffs acquired in 2009 represents one of the "premier chromite deposits in the world. Chromite is smelted to produce ferrochrome which is used globally in the production of stainless steel and is categorized as a strategic metal resource by
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Chief Cornelius Wabasse, and community members set up a blockade on the landing strips at Koper and McFaulds Lakes. Martens Falls and Webequie First Nations ended their blockade on March 19, 2010, with the admonition that they would resume the action if their concerns were not addressed by Noront
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KWG hosted a fundraising event on April 5, 2018, at Toronto's original stock exchange on Bay Street in support of the establishment of the Transportation Authority to facilitate the transport of chromite ore "from the Ring of Fire to a proposed KWG processing plant in Sault Ste. Marie." Invited
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said in a March 22 news report, expressed concern that he was not aware of this joint venture, nor were their "partners in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan." The news report said that "KWG is believed to be interested in partnering with the United States to take advantage of President Donald Trump's
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article. The same article said that the proposed railroad would transport 10 million tonnes of chromite annually by 2030, potentially growing to a yearly volume of up to 24 million tonnes by 2040. To complete the project, KWG was seeking financing from both China and the Government of Ontario,
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February 2013 briefing notes for Clement warned that the Matawa First Nation communities were among the "most socio-economically challenged in Ontario, impacting their ability to meaningfully participate in large complex projects". Most of the "working age population in the Matawa First Nation
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By the fall of 2020, the Ring of Fire was considered "one of the largest potential mineral reserves in Ontario" with "more than 35 junior and intermediate mining and exploration companies covering an area of about "1.5 million hectares". Although the Ring of Fire crescent covers 5,000 square
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According to the Northern Miner article Cliff's 2009 acquisition included "Freewest's 100%-owned Black Thor and Black Label deposits, and 50% of its Big Daddy deposit, which Freewest has joint-ventured with Spider Resources (SPQ-V) and KWG Resources (KWG-V). Cliffs already owns 19.9% of KWG
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In March 2020, at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada convention, Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Minister of Indigenous affairs, Greg Rickford, met Marten Falls Chief Bruce Achneepineskum and Webequie First Nation Chief Cornelius Wabasse for a signing ceremony. This ceremony
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KWG CEO Smeenk proposed the creation of the James Bay & Lowlands Transportation Authority, which would be "similar to an airport or port authority". He said that the federal government should participate in the Ring of Fire development by creating James Bay & Lowlands Transportation
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negotiated on behalf of the province and former premier Bob Rae on behalf of the Matawa, "set the terms for how future projects related to the proposed Ring of Fire would be finalized. It was intended to serve as a model for Crown-Indigenous relations on major resource-extraction projects."
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amounted to $ 226. At that time De Beers was continuing to pay off its "$ 1 billion investment to build the mine and from now until it closes, the company expects to pay tens of millions of dollars in royalties". By 2019, this number reached $ 110 million dollars in royalties to the Ontario
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Chief Eli Moonias explained in 2010 that Noront Resources did not have "permits to construct landing strips on the string bog or roads to the nearby airstrip". "The two First Nations proposed that they should build and maintain the infrastructure to prevent further damage to the wetlands
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construction jobs, for example. Louttit noted the gap in First Nations high school and post-secondary education that has existed for many years. Anja Jeffrey, director of the Centre for the North at the Conference Board of Canada, stressed traditional hunting as one of the key issues.
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of developing minerals that are crucial for the shift to a low carbon economy conflicts with the province's plans for a "Ring of Fire" as a "mining bonanza". Wilkinson said that they have identified mining projects in Ontario that are nearer to infrastructure that already exists.
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article, Cliffs Natural Resources, the Ohio-based firm that held the majority share in Big Daddy chromite deposit, was seeking an easement through Ontario's Mining and Landings Commissioner on the KWG corridor to build their access road. The minority share partner in Big Daddy,
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Chronic housing shortages, low education outcomes and lack of access to clean drinking water jeopardize the ability of local First Nations to benefit from the significant economic, employment and business development opportunities associated with the Ring of Fire developments.
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that in the current "political realities" and "regulatory environments", in order to extract minerals from the Ring of Fire and to avoid "political whims" from preventing the extraction of the minerals in the future, it was necessary to do "business with the United States."
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Authority—"similar to a port or airport"— for the purpose of transporting ore from the Ring of Fire to Sault Ste. Marie where there is already a port and a rail line. The railway runs from Sault Ste. Marie to Hearst which is "half way to the Ring of Fire". Smeenk told
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within six months. Although the protest ended, Noront continued to use the frozen lakes as landing strips until break-up in 2010. Chief Eli Moonias expressed environmental concerns over "sewage, grey-water, oil spills and road clearing" over the seven-year period.
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to "consider whether the Northern Gateway Pipeline Project is likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects and if it is in the public interest". The review process included multiple opportunities for the public and Aboriginal groups to provide input
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program for the engineering and construction of a railroad to the Ring of Fire from Exton, Ontario." The February 2013 Tetra Tech engineering firm report said that concluded that a railroad would provide better access to ore in the Ring of Fire, than a road.
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solidified the partnership between the two First Nations and the Ontario government, who now have the support of these First Nations to develop an all-season road infrastructure and move forward with the Ring of Fire developments.
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In April 2017, KWG also requested a guarantee of a billion dollars from Ontario's Ring of Fire Infrastructure Development Corporation (ROFIDC) to use as "consideration for project financing terms from Chinese lenders."
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By April 2013, Canada Chrome Corporation, had "staked a 330 km (210 mi)-kilometre-long "string of mining claims" which would eventually provide a transportation corridor from the Big Daddy chromite deposit to
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Cliffs Natural Resources, of Cleveland, Ohio, originally had an "ambitious timetable for developing the Black Thor chromite deposit", hoping to complete permits and environmental assessment approvals by the end of 2013
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First Nations have a constitutional right to be consulted and accommodated by provincial and the federal governments. The federal government has a focus on streamlining review processes through 2012 changes to the
597:, the Northern Ontario Business said. Aroland First Nation signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Norand on June 6, 2019, regarding the development of Norand's Eagle's Nest nickel and base metal deposit.
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from this historic opportunity". Along with federal funds to improve First Nations education on reserves and for drug treatment programs, McGuinty asked for "a tripartite process".
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years of mining activity that will spin-off jobs and economic activity for generations".
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2100:"KWG Resources and Chinese railway builders mean business in the Ring of Fire"
1690:"Premier Dalton McGuinty reaches out to Prime Minister Harper on Ring of Fire"
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1599:"Cliffs Natural Resources completes costly exit from Ontario's Ring of Fire"
1982:"The Tories are dissolving the Ring of Fire agreement. So what comes next?"
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Ballingall, Alex; MacCharles, Tonda; Rushowy, Kristin (July 11, 2023).
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2348:"Ring of Fire News: Removing our support, government is not listening"
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that favours the mining industry without First Nations participation.
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Action Plan for Supporting Community Participation in the Ring of Fire
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1449:. Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines. 12 May 2012.
1502:"Clement: Ontario 'Ring Of Fire' Will Be Canada's Next Oil Sands"
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Mike Hosszu; Gavin Sobil; Rosemarie Needham (5 April 2012).
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Joint Review Panel which had a broad mandate under both the
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2498:"Mining Weekly - Forrest's Wyloo seals third Canadian deal"
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2221:"U.S. role in Ring of Fire proposed"
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1431:. Lake Superior News. Archived from
1227:"Natives lift Ring of Fire blockade"
240:Ontario Environmental Assessment Act
1980:Thompson, Jon (September 3, 2019).
1757:"KWG Provides Update on Koper Lake"
1363:Norm Tollinsky (1 September 2011).
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2758:First Nations history in Ontario
2252:Helwig, David (March 22, 2018).
2188:Walters, Jeff (March 22, 2018).
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1852:Profile of KWG Resources Inc.
1759:. Market Wire. April 5, 2013.
1382:Freewest Resources Canada Inc
1365:"Round two for Richard Nemis"
1152:McKie, David (29 June 2013).
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18:Northern Ontario Ring of Fire
2753:Geography of Kenora District
2743:Politics of Northern Ontario
2288:. Toronto. September 3, 2019
1688:James Murray (25 May 2013).
1527:Peter Koven (13 June 2013).
1461:"First Nations Partnerships"
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663:In late August 27, 2019, in
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1367:. Sudbury Mining Solutions.
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579:According to an April 2017
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873:Roads to Resources Program
2748:Mines in Northern Ontario
2477:Northern Ontario Business
2395:Northern Ontario Business
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2059:Northern Ontario Business
2023:Northern Ontario Business
1838:Northern Ontario Business
1706:Ian Ross (3 April 2013).
1079:National Energy Board Act
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1042:Assembly of First Nations
819:On October 13, 2011, the
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582:Northern Ontario Business
568:Northern Ontario Business
559:Marten Falls First Nation
516:Marten Falls First Nation
459:Long Lake 58 First Nation
439:Marten Falls First Nation
433:, former Ontario premier
350:Northern Ontario Business
78:The region is centred on
27:Mineral deposit in Canada
2636:Steve May (2019-05-18).
1803:"Eagle's Nest Ni-Cu-PGE"
1569:"Ontario's Ring of Fire"
1054:Fort Albany First Nation
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995:Victor Mine/Attawapiskat
940:Sudbury Mining Solutions
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799:Ginoogaming First Nation
667:, Ontario's Minister of
615:guests included Premier
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463:Ginoogaming First Nation
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125:History of development
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1038:Nishnawbe Aski Nation
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1607:Updated May 12, 2018
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1291:. Republic of Mining
791:Aroland First Nation
629:Christian Provenzano
591:Aroland First Nation
479:Matawa First Nations
455:Aroland First Nation
401:Trans-Canada Highway
332:loss of biodiversity
320:McGuinty 25 May 2012
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2582:on 8 September 2012
1506:The Huffington Post
1207:Winnipeg Free Press
952:Republic of Mining,
878:Mid-Canada Corridor
712:Athabasca oil sands
544:Ontario Highway 599
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199:Webequie Junction.
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2644:. Sudbury, Ontario
2447:Burgos, Jonathan.
1869:The Globe and Mail
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84:Attawapiskat River
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