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The price of this strategic, silvery-white metal seems to be going as high as the nickel-containing ballistic missiles that defend North American air space.

Patrick Moore, founding member and former president of Greenpeace, supports the mining sector.

Seventy-five years old and still going strong as ever. The annual Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention, which got under way Sunday at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, is expecting to see almost 18,000 participants.

Sudbury was definitely going to be "nuked" by the Russians. At least that was our conclusion back in 1976 when I worked at CVRD Inco's Clarabell Mill for a year.

"If this is Monday, this must Sudbury." At times, that is exactly what Laura Clinton, the well-traveled project co-ordinator of the Mining Matters education initiative must probably be thinking.

A sniffle in Indonesia, sneezes and coughs in Australia and New Caledonia and a possible full-blown case of the flu in Sudbury are all causing the price of nickel to explode reaching levels we never thought possible.

In my previous column, I suggested that the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame be relocated to a brand new mining museum which should be built in Sudbury.

Canadians are known around the world for innovation and expertise in the mining field. Our high standard of living, especially in this community and many others across Northern Ontario is directly related to the mining industry.

You would have to be living on some unconnected deserted island in the South Pacific - not including New Caledonia - not to know that the "story of the year" was the foreign takeovers of Inco and Falconbridge.

Ireland, well known as the "Celtic Tiger," has become an industrial showcase for economists around the world.