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New fire assay lab opens in Sudbury

Business is heating up for SPJ Labs, Sudbury’s new fire assay laboratory. The doors officially opened for business March 12th to interested clients seeking fire assay work for their precious metals.

XRF analyzers increase efficiencies in the field

The steadfast prospector is always looking for a more expedient way to find that needle in the haystack. The Innov-X Systems Inc.

Vale Inco acquires VR tool for seismic interpretation

Ground control engineers at Vale Inco’s Creighton Mine in Sudbury have a new virtual reality (VR) tool for interpreting seismicity and proactively addressing potential rockburst hazards.

Century Systems automates QA/QC reporting

Century Systems Technologies Inc., a Sudbury-based software company specializing in applications for the exploration industry, has released a new product to automate quality assurance and quality control reporting.

Technology centre spreads its wings

Space is filling up quickly in the Northern Centre for Advanced Technology’s (NORCAT) new Sudbury facility.

Micro bolter designed for narrow vein mining

The mining industry has an enviable record of overcoming engineering challenges, but one challenge that has baffled equipment designers and engineers until now is how to install a six- or eight-foot bolt in an eight-foot high drift using mechanized e

CarMix introduces combined batching plant, mixer

When times are good, you should have a CarMix, but when times are difficult, you have to have one, says Norm Maurice, president of Sudbury’s CarMix Canada and Paramount Construction.

Cattron reinvents its remote control system

Cattron ’s New Generation radio remote control system has given compatibility a whole new meaning.

Free visualization software released

Driving innovation is the goal for Sudbury’s Mining Innovation, Rehabilitation and Applied Research Corporation’s (MIRARCO) new open source visualization and data integration software package called ParaViewGeo .

New software product optimizes schedules

New scheduling software developed by MIRARCO Mining Innovation, a not-for profit research organization based at Laurentian University in Sudbury, promises to dramatically change the way schedules are produced for mine development.