www gbr eports c om Glob al Business R eport s Table of Contents Pr ojec t Dir ec t or Elisa L Iannac one Journalis t Ben Cherringt on Pr ojec t Coor dina t or Sofia Messina E dit or Mung o Smith Gr aphic Designer Inanc Duman Co v er Imag e Court esy of Cement a tion A Glob al Business R eport s Public a tion F or upda t ed indus tr y ne ws fr om our on the gr ound t e ams ar ound the w orld ple ase visit our w ebsit e a t gbr eport s c om subscribe t o our ne wsle t t er b y signing up t o our VIP lis t thr ough our w ebsit e or f ollo w us on T wit t er GBR eport s D ear Reade r s O n t a r i o M i n i ng 20 1 8 P r e R e l ea se The Financial Clima t e f or Mining in Ont ario Int er vie w TMX Gr oup Pr oduc tion and E xplor a tion in Ont ario Glob al R e ach Mining Inno v a tion 5 6 9 15 20 Glob al Business R eport s is delight ed t o be b ack in Ont ario t o pr ovide a firs t hand ac c ount of the curr ent mining landsc ape in Canada s lar g es t miner al pr oducing pr ovinc e In this edition of our r eport GBR inves tig a t es the la t es t de velopment s acr oss the full v alue chain fr om the ser vic e and supply hub in Sudbur y t o the financial ins titutions junior explor ers and mining pr oduc ers in T or ont o tha t anchor the glob al mining indus tr y GBR s r ese ar ch t e am is s t a tioned in Ont ario f or thr ee months c onduc ting f ac e t o f ac e int er vie ws with the k e y decision mak ers thr oughout the indus tr y t o pr ovide a holis tic vie w of Ont ario s curr ent business envir onment A s the glob al mining indus tr y c ontinues on it s p a th of r ec over y af er a downturn tha t sp anned half a dec ade Ont ario as Canada s lar g es t pr oduc er of c ommodities with C99 billion of min er al pr oduc tion in 2017 is primed t o t ak e adv ant ag e as op timism r e turns Howe ver the financ ing has no t flooded b ack t o all sec t ors of the indus tr y with c annabis cr yp t ocurr encies and block chain domina ting the a t t ention of the Canadian s t ock ex chang es as junior mining c om p anies s truggle t o a t tr ac t inves tment In the f ac e of this ne w c ompe tition and on the b ack of a downturn tha t f or c ed the indus tr y t o f ocus on incr e asing eficienc y and pr oduc tivity an innov a tive ec osys t em of ins titutions SMEs and OEMs ar e pr oducing cut tingedg e t echnologies tha t will fundament ally chang e the glob al mining indus tr y in the c oming ye ars Innov a tion so of en a buzzwor d without b asis in a c on ser v a tive indus tr y is finally bec oming a priority f or mining c omp anies with t echnologies being intr oduc ed t o cr e a t e saf er working envir onment s and r e ach deposit s tha t wer e pr e viously no t c ommer cially viable A s major mining pr ojec t s c ome t o the end of their mine lif e the impending need f or signific ant ne w disc overies has height ened the senses of the junior mining c ommunity int ensifying explo r a tion in ar e as such as the R ed Lak e Gold Camp The glob al r e ach of Ont ario s mining indus tr y also sees T or ont o b ased mining c omp anies exploring a v arie ty of f or eign jurisdic tions in se ar ch of the nex t worldclass deposit This Pr e r ele ase is a snapsho t of the r ese ar ch c onduc t ed so f ar f or GBR s Ont ario series ahe ad of our final Ont ario Mining 2019 r eport t o be r ele ased in Mar ch 2019 a t PD A C We would lik e t o thank all our int er vie wees tha t have t ak en the time t o pr ovide their insight s int o the mark e t T o all our r e aders we alw ays welc ome your f eedb ack or int er es t in being int er vie wed ple ase f eel fr ee t o c ont ac t us a t elisagbr eport s c om A p alp able sense of positivity has r e turned t o Ont ario one of the pr eeminent glob al mining jurisdic tions and the f ollowing p ag es ar e an illus tr a tion tha t the tide has turned as we ent er the nex t upswing Elisa L Iannac one Pr oject Dir ect or Glob al Business R eport s E nj o y t h e r ea d E l i s a L I a n nac one B e n Che r r i n g t on S o f i a Me ss i na V i s i t o u r p o r t f ol i o o f IN D U S T R I A L E X PL OR A T I ONS o n l in e gbreportsc om