Thumb through the first volume of CIM Magazine and the impression you get is that, in this industry, a decade is really only a heartbeat. "The Renard project... has the potential to become Quebec's first diamond mine," Stornoway Diamonds CEO Eira Thomas pronounced back in 2006. Up in the Northwest Territories, Fortune Minerals was already cutting drifts to help prove out the viability of its NICO gold-cobalt-bismuth-copper project. It won't be until sometime next year that Thomas' prediction bears out and Renard begins producing the first of its ore. For the Fortune team, which has yet to secure financing for the project, the intervening years have been a test of its agility and resourcefulness.
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