Calling All Miners

This sound like more of an idea than a plan.

“It’s another hypothetical question, there’s lots of steps that have to be finished prior to a mining operation being built,” Pirie said at a mining conference in Toronto on Monday."

“There are a number of studies that will take place over the coming months to ensure that we’re protecting species at risk and mitigating adverse effects while also providing an overall benefit to those species,” Piccini said."

I'm all about protecting and the communities involved but I have a feeling this will get dragged through countless studies and lots of money spent on it. Many years later they will conclude that it is not viable and project is cancelled.

Millions of dollars will be spent that could be put to better use. Just my $0.02
 
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oioioi said:
This sound like more of an idea than a plan.

“It’s another hypothetical question, there’s lots of steps that have to be finished prior to a mining operation being built,” Pirie said at a mining conference in Toronto on Monday."

“There are a number of studies that will take place over the coming months to ensure that we’re protecting species at risk and mitigating adverse effects while also providing an overall benefit to those species,” Piccini said."

I'm all about protecting land the communities involved but I have a feeling this will get dragged throught countless studies and lots of money spent on it. Many years later they will conclude that it is not viable and project is cancelled.

Millions of dollars will be spent that could be put to better use. Just my $0.02
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The big hurdle has been delt with, the rest is who is getting the money and contracts. Seen this game played out many times before. This will be a good thing for the province and communities involved
 
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Let's hope you're right and I'm wrong.

All the power to helping out the northern communities
 
ToSlow said:
The big hurdle has been delt with, the rest is who is getting the money and contracts. Seen this game played out many times before. This will be a good thing for the province and communities involved
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The natives traded minerals with other tribes long before the Europeans came. It would be nice if the aboriginal people could benefit in a way that restored their pride and status. Unfortunately history showed that we moved them to swamp land and when that swampland turned out to have value they were moved again to poorer swampland.

One major hurdle is to match the aboriginal tribal system to world commerce.
 
ToSlow said:
Will be good for the Rez
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Hopefully the money gets spread around better than other rez improvement concepts. Mining pay can be decent or above decent if the upper echelon doesn't screw things up or get greedy.

Secondly, do we just add ore digging to the hewers of wood and drawers of water list? The higher tech jobs are someplace else.

I know a family that ships Canadian oak to China and it comes back as stair railings.
 
nobbie48 said:
Hopefully the money gets spread around better than other rez improvement concepts. Mining pay can be decent or above decent if the upper echelon doesn't screw things up or get greedy.
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Needs to be a percentage of locals on the payroll,
 
nobbie48 said:
I know a family that ships Canadian oak to China and it comes back as stair railings.
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It's difficult to for me to imagine a way this is cost effective given all the costs of shipping involved in teh process.

In the line of my work I've seen people order products from far off in the USA that cost a LOT of money to ship across the country, import, and finally get delivered to their facilities when (I sh!t you not) there are companies literally kilometres away making the same products that could literally be thrown in a pickup truck and delivered same day at a comparable, if not notably *less* cost in the end. Why? People don't take the time to look around and explore *all* the options, they just do a quick Google search and run with the first hit, click "buy", put in a credit card, and done.

Moral of the story here, I'm reasonably confident that if they did some work and put this sort of work out to tender here in Canada they'd find a better, faster, and probably cost competitive method to do it right here.
 
PrivatePilot said:
It's difficult to for me to imagine a way this is cost effective given all the costs of shipping involved in teh process.

In the line of my work I've seen people order products from far off in the USA that cost a LOT of money to ship across the country, import, and finally get delivered to their facilities when (I sh!t you not) there are companies literally kilometres away making the same products that could literally be thrown in a pickup truck and delivered same day at a comparable, if not notably *less* cost in the end. Why? People don't take the time to look around and explore *all* the options, they just do a quick Google search and run with the first hit, click "buy", put in a credit card, and done.

Moral of the story here, I'm reasonably confident that if they did some work and put this sort of work out to tender here in Canada they'd find a better, faster, and probably cost competitive method to do it right here.
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It can be very, very cost effective depending on commodity, volume and terms in the contract.

Case in point; we were ordering a part for our production of Tesla when it launched, from China at around $7/pc. We did source a local shop to make the same part just in case the supply chain got effected (Covid anyone?) and the local shop contract was issued for almost $12/pc

I will note the terms for the China contract was DAP - Concord, ON. So the supplier was on the hook for freight to our door. If the ship sank? Too bad, air freight at their cost. If they lost the container at the port, too bad, air freight at their cost. If the CN railway had a strike (sound familiar?), too bad, air freight at their cost.

Almost $5 savings per piece at (if memory serves) roughly 55,000 vehicles per year, 1 per vehicle.

That's $275k in savings by buying from a country with pre Covid transit times of about 5-6 weeks or so.
 
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Literally tons of oak, maple , walnut veneer is shipping to China and it all comes back as hardwood plywood . Same with hardwood flooring . It got harder three yrs ago when containers went to 26,000 cdn . But now that it’s back to 8k ish , it’s a thing again.

There are dozens of gta companies making stair parts , if you want really consistent quality and material and style, you buy that , if you want Home Depot spindles , it’s from China


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