Staking a mining claim in Ontario just got easier.
Garry Clark of the Ontario Prospectors Association tells us those claims can now be made online and the prospector doesn’t have to go to the actual site to get it done.
He says it means the “smaller players” can go and acquire ground in the north.
Clark sites the Ring of Fire as an example where staking a claim required companies to fly in with a helicopter or a plane.
The association and the government are working to find other jobs for the people whose jobs are lost because of the new technology.