Editorial: Mine extension announcement good for remaining Vale employees thompsoncitizen.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thompsoncitizen.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
“Definitely the capital phase is work that we’ll be sending out to be done, which is the boring of the holes for the ventilation and then also the upgrades on the backfill system and the power system,” he said. “It’s kind of specialized work. It’s tendered for a short period of time. It’s big machines but sometimes it’s not a big workforce.” By adding ventilation and power to make more drilling possible and increased backfill capacity speeding up the process of filling in mined areas and moving on to the next block, the project will increase the amount of ore that comes out of Thompson. There is also substantial exploration drilling happening, using five surface drills and three underground drills, though at times the total number may rise as high as 10, Annett said.
Vale spending $150 million on first phase of Thompson mine extension project thompsoncitizen.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thompsoncitizen.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The new owners of a proposed nickel mine off Highway 6 between Ponton and Grand Rapids have recruited plenty of talent who once worked in Thompson to help them bring it to production. Silver . . .
Eighty per cent of workers in Sudbury are expected back on the job within four weeks and the remaining 20 per cent within in six weeks.
Picket lines that went up July 13 last year at Vale s Ontario operations were dismantled after the deal was ratified by 75.5 per cent of members who voted in Sudbury and 74 per cent in Port Colborne.
It was the longest strike in Sudbury s history and the longest strike in Vale s 68-year-history. There have been nine strikes at the former Inco operations in Sudbury since 1958, including an 8 -month one from Sept. 15, 1978 until June 7, 1979. It remains the biggest strike in Canadian history in terms of lost workdays.