Site Services & CrushingPhotos: NUNA/De BeerSite ServicesNUNA’s <strong>high</strong>-arctic experienced personnel are well equipped toprovide efficient site services comprising fully staffed infrastructures;camp, shops and facilities installations; aircraft freight handling; roadand runway clearing; and transportation of fuel and supplies.CrushingBeing open for business from Day 1 of Canada’s diamond discovery,NUNA was provided the opportunity to supplying the majority of theNorthwest Territories and <strong>Nuna</strong>vut mine developments vital crushingservices and site infrastructure construction for efficient mineoperations. By employing NUNA’s complete crushing plants, NUNAhas crushed natural esker and blasted rock and has constructed themajority of site runways (3,000' to 7,000'); site access roads 275 +km (8.2 m to 25 m wide x 2 m to 3 m <strong>high</strong>); pads for 100 to 350person camps, shops and tank farms; and dams and dikes.Successful Projects by NUNA & PartnersAgnico-Eagle Mines LimitedMeadowbank Gold Project, <strong>Nuna</strong>vut, Canada108 km Road - Baker Lake to Meadowbank ProjectThe longest all-weather road in <strong>Nuna</strong>vut employed NUNA’s heavyequipment construction fleet, crushing plant and crew of 60 + to drill,blast, crush, move and place over 1.7 million m 3 of ROQ material.BHP Billiton Diamonds Inc.EKATI Diamond Mine, Northwest Territories, CanadaNUNA crushed, moved and placed 100,000 tonnes of blastedgranite for the construction of EKATI’s 7,000' runway, plant site,31 km access and haulage road linking EKATI to Misery, plusadditional crush for road maintenance. Cumulative crush was300,000 + tonnes.De Beers Canada Inc.Snap Lake Diamond Mine, Northwest Territories, CanadaNUNA crushed, moved and placed rock for the construction ofSnap Lake’s 5,000' airstrip, facilities pad, tank farm, 2 kimberlitecontainment dams and site access roads.Diavik Diamond Mines LTD.Diavik Diamond Mine, Northwest Territories, CanadaLac de Gras Constructors, a partnership of NUNA and Peter KiewitSons, developed the site earthworks which involved the crushing ofmaterial for the construction of a 5,250' airstrip, haul roads, plantsite, kimberlite containment facilities, A154 and A418 water retainingdikes and cutoff wall and 200,000 + m 3 crush for PKC dams.Additional contracts included: jaw-only crush for 70,000 tonnesof kimberlite material to a finished product of 304 mm; and716,800 m 3 of crushed material to a finished product of19 mm up to 150 mm.Tahera Diamond CorporationJericho Diamond Mine, <strong>Nuna</strong>vut, CanadaCrushed, moved and placed rock for the construction of site accessroads, pads, dams, lay down areas, tank farm and camp.BAFFINLAND IRON MINES CORPORATIONMary River Iron Ore Project, <strong>Nuna</strong>vut, CanadaNUNA’s scope relating to the mining of a bulk sample and crushingservices comprised the construction of a 120 km access road anda 9 km all-weather mining road, site infrastructure pads, airstripand fuel tank farms. The bulk sample alone required NUNA to drill,blast, haul and crush raw ore to fine and lump product totaling120,000 tonnes.www.nunalogistics.com
Committed to Northern DevelopmentDependable Project DevelopmentEarthworks &Site DevelopmentPhoto: NUNANUNA’s in depth knowledge of northern operations and specialized equipment enable us tomobilize, build and maintain the reliable infrastructure required for continuous and cost-efficientoperations in isolated regions of Northern Canada and the world.
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