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Sometimes when it looks, sounds and walks like a duck…then it is duck! The continuing decline in the price of some metals including nickel has many analysts clucking that this mining boom is over.

Are we five years into a commodity super-cycle that will last for decades due to China's explosive growth or is this just a routine mining boom followed by a bust? Every time there is a slight decline in the price of metals the conventional "boom-bus

Sudbury wants to become the "Silicon Valley" of the mining sector. A major contribution from the federal government for mining research is needed to enhance the region's globally significant cluster of mining related firms.

Conservative John Tory, the man who hopes to become the next premier of Ontario, wants to relocate government jobs to northern and rural regions and help to diversify local economies.

By consolidating Ontario's university mining engineering and geology programs at Laurentian University, the McGuinty Government could turn that institution into an international "Harvard of the mining sector.

Premier Dalton McGuinty is grasping at green straws to desperately garner the southern Ontario environmental vote regardless of the economic damage and uncertainty his inept energy policies will cause the provincial economy, especially the north.

The McGuinty Liberal's policies of the past four years are destroying or severely hampering Northern Ontario's two main industries - forestry and mining.

The sky is falling, the sky is falling. Or so it seems to the many metallic "Chicken Littles" out there highlighting the plummeting price of nickel.

The current Canadian angst about selling out the country's corporate gems reminds me of the old saying, "Closing the barn door after the horses have already escaped.

The mining sector is ignoring the green light at the end of the tunnel that is attached to a 100-ton locomotive driven by the environmental movement. The collision is going to be messy.