By Gary Beech

More research money is heading to Laurentian University with the goal to improve the success of locating future ore bodies.

$5-million from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation will be spread out over 7-years to form a research group that will examine how base and precious minerals are formed.

That information should help companies do a better job of finding and developing new deposits.

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