Economic Benefits

Residents of the Kingston region have long taken pride in the fact that their community has been recognized as being a great place to make a home. Many Kingston-area families can trace their roots back for generations, and in May 2008, Money Sense magazine ranked Kingston as being the 4^th best place in Canada in which to live.

At the same time, the Kingston region is also rapidly becoming known as being one of the nation’s best locations for operating a business. Advantages such as a dedicated and high quality workforce, affordable costs of doing business, top-notch research and development capabilities, and excellent access to North American and international markets are helping Kingston to catch the eye of the global business community. Not surprisingly, in recent years the region has experienced a noticeable level of new activity in both traditional industry sectors and emerging field such as biotechnology and alternative energy. 

	The project will help to create new jobs for residents of the local community.
	The size of the deposit, coupled with growing global demand for wollastonite, will enable mining operations to be
carried on for many years to come.
	Because the deposit is world-class in its significance, it has already attracted considerable interest in the
international mining community. This will help to put Kingston and the surrounding region on the map, and will help the region to build more of a global profile that can be used to attract new investment in other industry sectors as well.

At a time when Ontario is experiencing economic turbulence and many communities across the province are being impacted by layoffs and plant closures, Canadian Wollastonite offers a significant opportunity to provide Kingston and the surrounding region with an important economic development success story.