Has anyone heard such crying and negativism as coming from this guy Clark....if the locals want access to the rail/road corridor, then the province can build connecting roads, or better yet, the locals can build the roads....yes, pipelines and roads CROSS/Cross claims, but not 330 KMs of 300 claims...after all is said and done, what is the purpose of the railway/road....to move ore to market....secondary use is for the local populations...

Garry Clark, executive director of the Ontario Prospectors Association, expressed surprised at the ruling since there are plenty of examples of mining claims that have outside roads, hydro and gas pipelines crossing them.

The lack of a road represents a setback in moving the entire camp forward, he said.

“Access is access. A railroad would be good obviously but a railroad doesn't help the First Nations because they would have to haul goods in the railroad and have a road from railroad into their community.

A (main) road would have spur roads off of it going into their communities.” Clark was unsure what the future holds for this string of stranded deposits over the next few years.

“Does this mean someone's going to get onside with (Noront's) East-West corridor instead? If you're Cliffs and you're looking for Plan B do you make a deal with Noront on the east-west corridor instead?”

Clark said the ruling does little to boost investor confidence in the Ring of Fire deposits.

“I think it's stifles it for a while for sure. You never know what's going to happen next or who's going to step up. Right now I'd say everything's totally up in the air. I don't know who can put the push on it.”