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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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more