The money will be used to manufacture five demonstration units to be sold and tested in real-world mining environments. Once complete and fully commercialized, the clean-tech modular drilling system will help mining firms improve operational efficiency and achieve greater environmental sustainability READ HERE
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To develop this electric model, Triumph is working with outside engineering companies including Williams Advanced Engineering, which will develop batteries, and Integral Powertrain, which will handle the motor. The University of Warwick will handle extended research. Triumph will control the final design. Motorcycle companies are building electric bikes to appeal to... read more →
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Three infrastructure jobs, including a major project to extend Quebec Autoroute 19 north of Laval, Que., have secured the backing of the federal government. François-Philippe Champagne, Canada’s minister of Infrastructure and Communities, was in the Montreal suburb of Bois-des-Filion May 13 to announce $345.4 million in federal funding for a trio... read more →
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Tariffs imposed on Canadian steel and aluminum imports into the U.S. have been lifted. The Canadian government made the announcement on May 17. The tariffs – 25 per cent on steel and 10 per cent on aluminum – were imposed last June 1. At the time, the U.S. said the tariffs... read more →
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Amazon broke ground this week on its $1.5 billion Amazon Air hub at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG) in Hebron, Kentucky. The hub will include its own ramp tower, onsite facilities for sortation and eventually space for up to 100 aircraft. The company said that the new facility will help... read more →
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The assembled impeller, installed at the Baixiang onshore wind farm project in Hebei, China, had a diameter of 141 metres and weighed nearly 90 tons. The impeller was installed May 6 by XCMG’s XCA1600 wheeled all-terrain crane. The crane lifted and docked the impeller in 40 minutes while engineers spent another 90... read more →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →