MINING.COM Staff Writer

The Montreal Gazette reports: About two dozen non-unionized workers have walked off the job in a remote mining camp in northern Ontario — in an area known as the Ring of Fire — in protest of what they call unsafe conditions and unsatisfactory compensation. The workers put out a statement late Sunday saying they had stopped working over the weekend.

Dumas Contracting Ltd. (“Dumas”) and JCHX Mining Management Co., Ltd (“JCHX”), a leading Chinese mining contractor, have entered into a strategic alliance. The scope of the strategic alliance covers supporting Chinese clients with projects in Dumas’ core markets of Canada and Latin America.