John Cumming, Editor-in-chief of The Northern Miner, joined the paper's Toronto bureau in 1996. Cumming holds a B.Sc. in geology from Carleton University in Ottawa and a M.Sc. in geochemistry from the University of Windsor. Building on his prior geological field experience in northern Ontario and Manitoba, Cumming has filed on-site reports for the 'Miner from more than a hundred mineral exploration and mining projects in dozens of countries.