Wallbridge said the former open pit and underground mine is capable of producing good grades with low-cost bulk mining methods. Stope grades released by the company ranged between 10.94 grams per tonne (g/t) to 38.33 g/t. Wallbridge ran 33,233 tonnes of ore through the Camflo Mill in Val d’Or from its... read more →

Top officials from paper products firm Kruger Inc., along with representatives of local and provincial government, broke ground May 13 on a $575 million plant in the southern Quebec city’s Brompton borough. Work on the new tissue paper manufacturing facility will take about two years. Kruger said the project will translate... read more →

Approximately $590 million will be spent on rehabilitating and improving transportation infrastructure including $100 million on major roads; $70 million on local roads; $200 million on expressways including the F.G. Gardiner Strategic Rehabilitation project; $60 million on sidewalks and cycling infrastructure; $45 million on Vision Zero infrastructure and the Road... read more →

Terrapure has been working with Vale since 2012 on a program to apply municipally treated biosolids to reclaim and vegetate the mining company's Central Tailings area. This program was the first of kind in Ontario. Tailings are the ore waste rock generated from mining. For more than 100 years, Vale (formerly... read more →

Caterpillar’s 2019/2020 Global Operator Challenge Competition will feature the company’s job-site productivity tools as operators “test their agility, mental toughness, and versatility.” Contestants will also be judged on their competence using machines’ integrated technology. Operators will qualify in local heats conducted by Cat dealers, then compete in regional semi-finals competitions held... read more →

Designed by a consortium of Sudbury-based Yallowega Belanger Salach Architecture and Toronto’s Moriyama & Teshima Architects, the building will be home to seven French-language cultural organizations. A general contractor will be retained to construct the four-storey centre, said Martin Lajeunesse, treasurer of Place des Arts du Grand Sudbury and a member... read more →

Just under a million tonnes of cargo moved through the Port of Thunder Baybetween March 28 and April 30. That was up by a third from the five-year average of 750,000 tonnes and 10 per cent higher than during the same time last year. A May 10 Thunder Bay Port Authority... read more →

Komatsu America Corp. has introduced the new PC1250SP-11 and PC1250LC-11 hydraulic excavators. These EPA Tier 4 Final certified models have SAA6D170E-7 engines with two Komatsu Diesel Particulate Filters that do not require Diesel Exhaust Fluid or a Selective Catalyst Reduction (SCR) system. Both models feature a new single “Power +” operating... read more →

OSSGA engaged Stantec Consulting to conduct the second phase of the study, which analyzed seven sites within the provincial plan areas identified in the first phase to better understand the ecological and cultural characteristics of aquatic habitat created by rehabilitating pits and quarries. “From a public awareness point of view, we... read more →