Global expertise cornerstone of success. (Corporate Profile).Providing quality, innovative and comprehensive solutions to its clients for over 40 years, Golder Associates Ltd. (Golder) and its subsidiaries, with 80 offices worldwide, remain an industry leader. Specializing in providing geotechnical and mining engineering, environmental and earth science services for regional natural resource and civil engineering projects, Golder employs more than 2,400 people around the world, including more than 40 in Sudbury. Recently voted as one of the top 50 Canadian firms to work for (20th overall), as well as being identified as one of the 50 Best Managed Private Companies in Canada for the past two years, they are obviously doing something right internally as well. The Sudbury office, located at 662 Falconbridge Rd., was established nine years ago and has grown steadily over that time from its original employee base of two. Golder's Sudbury operation, comprised of three distinct companies operating under the Golder brand, has a reputation as a centre for mining, environmental, earth science and site remediation expertise. The company offers its clients a team of specialized personnel providing consulting and engineering, procurement, construction and management (EPCM EPCM Engineering, Procurement, Construction Management EPCM Essential Procedures for Clinical Microbiology EPCM Enhanced Planning Control Message EPCM Enterprise Portal Content Management EPCM European Project & Change Management (The Netherlands) ) service in a number of key areas including: water supply evaluations, wellhead well·head n. 1. The source of a well or stream. 2. A principal source; a fountainhead. 3. The structure built over a well. wellhead Noun 1. protection studies, waterquality assessments, groundwater contamination investigations, mine dewatering Dewatering (dē′wöd·ər·iŋ) is the removal of water from solid material or soil by wet classification, centrifugation, filtration, or similar solid-liquid separation processes. studies, environmental effects monitoring, environmental risk analysis, mine design, rock mechanics Rock mechanics is the theoretical and applied science of the mechanical behaviour of rock and rock masses; it is that branch of mechanics concerned with the response of rock and rock masses to the force fields of their physical environment. , site decommissioning Decommissioning is a general term for a formal process to remove something from operational status. Some specific instances include:
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Cameron is proud of this internal system of networking and says Golder will continue to use all of its internal resources in providing for its clientele. It is not uncommon for Golder employees to find themselves sitting on a plane heading towards a distant country in support of one of their foreign offices, or having specialists from other offices here in Sudbury to assist on projects. While they are proud of their international success, Golder remains committed to providing clients in Northern Ontario Northern Ontario is the part of the province of Ontario which lies north of Lake Huron (including Georgian Bay), the French River and Lake Nipissing. Northern Ontario has a land area of 802,000 km² (310,000 mi²) and constitutes 87% of the land area of Ontario, although it with quality service. Golder is aware of the role water resources play in human and economic development. As such, the company's services focus on the total issue of waterresource management, including water planning, resource potential, environmental protection, surface and groundwater development and constructive support. These services have been applied in the development of municipal water supply, natural resource development, recreational facilities, residential communities and conservation areas. They offer comprehensive services for evaluating water quality and designing environmental protection measures for water resources. Golder has undertaken numerous hydrogeological assessments of municipal and industrial groundwater supplies for the First Engineer's Reports required under the Ministry of the Environment's 0. Reg. 459/00. These have included delineation of wellhead protection areas for municipal groundwater supply wells, and the evaluation of groundwater resources potentially under the direct influence of surface water. Golder also provides a full range of environmental services The various combinations of scientific, technical, and advisory activities (including modification processes, i.e., the influence of manmade and natural factors) required to acquire, produce, and supply information on the past, present, and future states of space, atmospheric, which permits them to work with clients from early stages of new project development, through operations and decommissioning. The principal environmental services offered by the company include: environmental site assessments and remediation, risk assessment, waste management, biological services, water resource management, water quality assessment, air quality assessment and strategic environmental management. Golder Associates Innovative Applications (GAIA) Inc., a ,division of Golder Associates Ltd., maintains its headquarters at the Sudbury office on Falconbridge Road. This Golder subsidiary was established as a mining contracting company specializing in mine reclamation Mine reclamation is the process of creating useful landscapes that meet a variety of goals, typically creating productive ecosystems (or sometimes industrial or municipal land) from mined land. and decommissioning strategies and applications on a turnkey basis, or as part of a complete rehabilitation program Noun 1. rehabilitation program - a program for restoring someone to good health program, programme - a system of projects or services intended to meet a public need; "he proposed an elaborate program of public works"; "working mothers rely on the day care , including long-term property management. Clients include such companies as Lac Properties, Inmet Mining The 'Inmet Mining Corporation is a Canadian mining corporation that currently holds an 18% stake in Ok Tedi Mining Limited. Corp., Inco Ltd., Barrick Gold Barrick Gold Corporation TSX: ABX NYSE: ABX is the largest pure gold mining company in the world, with its headquarters in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and four regional business units (RBU's) located in Australia, Africa, North America and South America. , Agnico-Eagle, Domtar, CGC CGC Canine Good Citizen (AKC Dog Title) CGC Commission Géologique du Canada (Geological Survey of Canada) CGC Confédération Générale des Cadres (French labor union) , Falconbridge Ltd. and the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines. Bruce Fox, project manager for GAIA in Sudbury, believes the' company has found its niche in dealing with the environmental concerns of its clients. "GAIA applies their expertise towards reducing hazards at mine sites and rehabilitating mines," Fox says. "We take care of potential environmental and physical hazards for our clients." GAIA can solve potential problems clients have and make them environmentally sound. Typical projects will include design/build solutions for dams, tailings Tailings (also known as tailings pile, tails, leach residue, or slickens[1]) are the materials left over[2] after the process of separating the valuable fraction from the worthless fraction of an ore. basin, waste piles, open pits, demolition, revegetation Revegetation is the process of replanting and rebuilding the soil of disturbed land. This may be a natural process produced by plant colonization and succession, or an artificial (manmade), accelerated process designed to repair damage to a landscape due to wildfire, mining, flood, and other mining related infrastructures. Disposing of mine tailings and various waste materials has traditionally consituted a large percentage of the operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales of mining and processing facilities. Environmental regulations in many countries have become more stringent in the last decade. Subsequently, high costs and difficulties obtaining operating permits have forced many companies to look to outside services for help with mine waste-disposal problems. David Landriault, president of Golder Paste Technology Ltd. (Paste Tec), realized this and came up with a solution. Wholly owned by Golder Associates Ltd., PasteTec offers consulting and EPCM services in the area of tailings management, backfill back·fill n. Material used to refill an excavated area. tr.v. back·filled, back·fill·ing, back·fills To refill (an excavated area) with such material. production and placement and the handling and disposal of other waste materials. Plans for the disposal of tailings in paste form are site specific and are developed to ensure the facility's environmental performance meets or exceeds all federal and provincial regulatory requirements. Advantages of surface paste deposition include: smaller footprint for tailings or waste impoundment An action taken by the president in which he or she proposes not to spend all or part of a sum of money appropriated by Congress. The current rules and procedures for impoundment were created by the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C.A. , lower environmental impact, less clean-up and improved water management. PasteTec's consulting and EPCM services are in use worldwide. After the recent successful commissioning of their latest paste systems in Tanzania and Sweden, the company is presently designing tailings paste production plants for operations in Alaska, New Caledonia, Montana and Canada. Paste studies are also underway for mines in Peru, Brazil and Chile. Golder and its subsidiaries, including GAIA and PasteTec, remain committed to bringing quality mining and geotechnical engineering, environmental and earth science services to Northern Ontario and around the world. Over the past four decades, Golder and its various divisions have gained extensive experience and expertise through the successful completion of thousands of work projects. Through a close working relationship with its clientele, Golder has gained the experience and expertise needed to find the right solutions amidst the often complex environments in which industry operates. |
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