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I received an email yesterday with information on the 4th annual North American Infrastructure leadership forum to be held in Denver Colorado, Oct. 16-18 2012. A while ago I registered for information regarding this forum. They sent me an update yesterday.

What caught my eye is the verbage below that I received in my email yesterday from this forum.

The Top 100 Projects in North America - Virginia & Colorado Confirmed, Los Angeles Metro Confirmed - and Thunder Bay, Confirmed

Featured Project: Mineral Deposits of Northwestern Ontario, Canada ($80 Billion) - Power Generation & Transmission, 400 Miles of Bridges and Roads, and more...

Northwestern Ontario, Canada, is home to the world’s richest gold mine, Goldcorp Inc.’s Red Lake Mine. Mineral- rich Northwestern Ontario boast’s 1.2 million ounces of annual gold production, but also a “stable” of 13 new deposits maturing, through the exploration process, to become producing mines between 2013 and 2017.

These 13 deposits represent mineral wealth estimated to have an in ground value of over $80B. Metals to be mined from these major exploration projects include: gold, chromium, copper, nickel, iron, palladium and platinum.

Infrastructure requirements, estimated by industry, are 573.5MW of power, 467 miles of electrical transmission lines, and 400 miles of road. A staggering 3,551 skilled tradesmen and professionals, will be required to operate 9 of the 13 new mines.

This dynamic project will be among the 60+ high-level presentations given at this year's Forum. Stay tuned next week for the latest project confirmations!

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Featured Project: Mineral Deposits of Northwestern Ontario, Canada ($80 Billion) - Power Generation & Transmission, 400 Miles of Bridges and Roads, and more...