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Mechanized mining using jumbos and big loaders are the underground mining method of choice throughout much of the Sudbury Basin and other mining camps around the world, but in the copper-rich Morrison Deposit that Quadra FNX is mining at its Levack C

To Steve Matusch, president of Ionic Engineering Limited in Sudbury, Ontario, there are no boundaries. “People come to us when they can’t find something on the market, but know it can be done,” he said.

The Sudbury-based Mansour Group has sold its flagship ground control business to a consortium of private investors in Ontario. The new company, operating as Mansour Mining Technologies Inc.

There was a decided lack of excitement about the Detour Lake property in 2006. The former Placer Dome property, 250 kilometres northeast of Timmins, had produced 1.8 million ounces of gold between 1983 and 1999 and was owned by Pelangio Mines.

A new technology powerhouse is making its debut in the mining industry as a result of CAE Inc.’s recent acquisition of Datamine and Sudbury-based Century Systems Technologies.

Shaft sinking and mining contractors in Northern Ontario are on a roll. “It’s never been this busy,” said Dave Hansman, senior vice presidentof North Bay’s Redpath Group.

Quadra FNX Mining Ltd. has announced plans to begin sinking two shafts at its Victoria project in the Sudbury Basin next year and expects to be in production in 2017. A NI 43-101 compliant inferred resource totaling 12.5 million tonnes grading 2.

The rising cost of ventilation and stricter emission standards for diesel engines have persuaded RDH Mining Equipment to introduce a fully electric line of underground equipment beginning witha three-yard load-haul-dump (LHD) machine.

The Ontario Mine Contractors Safety Association (OMCSA) has awarded the 2010 Worker Safety Innovation Award to The Redpath Group for its oxyacetylene carrier, a metal cabinet that safely transports and protects oxygen and acetylene bottles on a mecha