Local mining company signs $45M deal.Greater Sudbury Greater Sudbury (2006 census population 157,857) is a city in Northern Ontario, Canada. Greater Sudbury was created in 2001 by amalgamating the cities and towns of the former Regional Municipality of Sudbury, along with several previously unincorporated geographic townships. has a part to play in a $45 million deal between Sandvik
Sandvik is a Swedish company founded in 1862 by Göran Fredrik Göransson in Sandviken. Mining and Construction and De Beers Canada. The contract is one of the largest in the history of the local mining and supply service industry. Sandvik, which has its Canadian Canadian (kənā`dēən), river, 906 mi (1,458 km) long, rising in NE New Mexico. and flowing E across N Texas and central Oklahoma into the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma. head office in the Walden Industrial Park in Lively, is supplying about 35 drills, scoop trams and mechanical bolting bolting 1. of a horse, escaping from restraint at full gallop. 2. of a horse, eating its food greedily and rapidly. machines for a De Beers diamond mine being developed in Snap Lake, Northwest Territories Northwest Territories, territory (2001 pop. 37,360), 532,643 sq mi (1,379,028 sq km), NW Canada. The Northwest Territories lie W of Nunavut, N of lat. 60°N, and E of Yukon. . The machines were built in Finland, shipped by sea to Halifax, and trucked to Lively. Local Sandvik employees will alter the machines so they are ready for use at Snap Lake (located about 220 kilometres northeast of Yellowknife). Sandvik's headquarters are in Sweden, but the company has operations around the world. Locally, it employs 150 people. Once the equipment is altered, it will be trucked across Canada Across Canada was an afternoon program that formerly aired on The Weather Network. The segment ran from early 1999 until mid 2002. The show ran from 3:00PM ET until 7:00 PM ET. to the diamond mine. The trucks will have to drive over some sections of ice road once they get further north. About 40 Sandvik workers, most of them from Greater Sudbury, will be sent to the De Beers project permanently to maintain the equipment. The city's economy will benefit from the deal, says Peter Jarvis, vice-president of Underground Hardrock Mining at Sandvik. "All the equipment comes through here and it's modified and sent to site. We manage the contract from Sudbury, so it involves employment here," he says. "The 40 people that are going up, it involves a lot of support from Sudbury. A lot of the people going will be from Sudbury. It's very important. If we didn't have that expertise, then we wouldn't be up there supporting De Beers, that's for certain." The fact that De Beers trusts local Sandvik workers to take care of their machinery "speaks volumes for the mining and supply industry here in Sudbury," he says. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] De Beers received final regulatory approvals required for the construction of a mine at Snap Lake in May 2004. It is De Beers' first mine outside of Africa, and Canada's first fully underground diamond mine. Construction began with the opening of the ice road in February 2005. More than $430 million has been spent on contracts and purchase orders. BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN For Northern Ontario Business Northern Ontario Business is a Canadian magazine, which publishes monthly in Greater Sudbury, Ontario. The magazine covers business news and issues in Northern Ontario. |
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