Following years of complex negotiations and many delays, the Ontario provincial government on Monday made the historic announcement that it will support and fund road proposals that will connect Northern Ontario’s far-flung First Nation communities and provide industrial road access to the emerging Ring of Fire (RoF) mining district.
A political hot potato since its discovery in 2002, the RoF’s rich ores are estimated to hold some C$60-billion worth of nickel/copper/platinum group metals mineral wealth, a figure still touted by both the federal and provincial governments for years, albeit perhaps calculated at a time when metals prices were considerably higher.
