January 14th, 2019: MEDATECH is excited to announce that they have agreed to terms for the supply of an innovative drilling system. The system will be used for rehabilitation of aging dam infrastructure in the southern United States. The customer has been conducting extensive on-site assessment of their existing drilling systems for dam rehabilitation. With recent changes on the OEM landscape,...
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Oct. 25, 2018 Nouveau Monde Graphite announced the results of their “all-electric open-pit” feasibility study. The results are favorable for the all electric solution and will have a significant impact on the future of mining. “The mine will be using an all-electric, zero-emission mine fleet, consisting of electric battery-driven 36.3-t mining trucks, battery-driven front-end loaders, cable reel excavators and bulldozers, and...
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After several successful years and significant growth in our engineering and fabrication services, MEDATECH is re-investing in their facilities at the Collingwood location. “The expansion will increase our technical capabilities and give us more room to take on larger and more challenging projects” Says Robert Rennie, President of MEDATECH Engineering. The expansion includes over 5,000 sq-ft of new shop space...
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June 12, 2018 Most of us relate electrification to underground mining for many obvious reasons, lower ventilation requirement and cost optimization being the two primary ones. The question is ‘Does electrification hold equally good with respect to open-pit mining?’. With a belief that electrification makes sense irrespective of the nature of mining, NMG CEO Éric Desaulniers planned an all electric...
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April 29. 2018 Chapleau Ont., MEDATECH and its partners are proud to announce the delivery of the first ever 100% battery electric retrofit motor grader to the Goldcorp Borden Lake Mine. The project was a joint effort with MacLean Engineering who will be commissioning the system this week underground at the Chapleau mine. See our project page for the Battery Electric Motor...
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April 10. 2018 Montreal, Quebec — Nouveau Monde Graphite (NMG) intends on completing by the end of 2018 its feasibility study leading to the implantation of the first ever electric open-pit mine. The results of this study will serve to confirm the project’s economic viability and to determine how best to exploit the graphite deposit of Saint-Michel- des-Saints in a carbon-neutral...
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Why the mines of the future will be diesel free Goldcorp Inc., a gold producer based in Vancouver, BC, recently announced plans to build the world’s first diesel-free hard rock mine near Chapleau, Ontario. Going diesel-free is an ambitious goal. A typical mine can have dozens of diesel engines across its heavy equipment fleet. Going electric means enormous up front...
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How to choose the best industrial lithium battery By: David Francis Lyon, Business Development Manager I recently returned from a large equipment Expo. My goal there was to understand the state of the heavy equipment industry with respect to adapting EV (electric vehicle) technology. There were several machines on display billed as either “Hybrid” or “Electric” but what really caught my...
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