A new partnership has Lake Shore Gold and Orbit Garant helping in the fight against cancer.
The companies have launched Drilling for Cancer. For every meter drilled in their exploration program, they are setting aside cash to donate.
So far, $10,000 has been raised for the Timmins and District Hospital's Oncology Department.
"The partnership between our contractors and stakeholders are essential to our business and our community," said Marcel Cardinal, director of environment and sustainability.
According to Lake Shore Gold, a subsidiary of Pan American Silver, the initiative took shape earlier this year in meetings to identify how much exploration drilling the Timmins mine and partners Orbit Garant need to do.
"In order to accommodate the additional drilling Orbit identified that a new drill was going to be needed which began the discussions of drilling for a cause. The group decided to paint the drill purple in order to identify our fight against cancer," reads a news release.
The slogan fighting cancer one metre at a time was also developed.
