Last week, the Redpath Group reached a major milestone, as the company completed an 875-metre-long by 6.3-metre-diameter raise at the privately held Niobec mine in Quebec. The raise is the largest by volume ever completed in the Americas and in…
Miners develop best practices for operating during a pandemic
In many jurisdictions around the world, mining has been classified as an essential service, allowing mines to continue to operate during the COVID-19 pandemic. For a sector that takes safety extremely seriously, how are practices being amended to deal with…
As Canadian mining companies rushed to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak to protect their workers and operations, many dusted off their crisis communications plans and realized they hadn’t accounted for a possible pandemic. And yet mining leaders across the country…
ONTARIO – In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, North Bay-headquartered Redpath Canada has donated 19,000 pairs of disposable medical gloves to the North Bay Regional Health Centre (NBRHC), a COVID-19 assessment centre. The virus response, together with ongoing medical needs, places additional…
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ONTARIO – Toronto-based North American Palladium has signed a major mine development contract with Redpath Canada of North Bay, Ont. Redpath. The expansion will double the capacity of the mine and mill to 12,000 t/d from 6,000 t/d. The project…
MONTANA – As announced in September, Toronto’s Barrick Gold has laid off 135 of its open pit crew at the Golden Sunlight gold mine near Whitehall. The change became effective Nov. 30, 2015. Low gold prices and concerns about slope…
QUEBEC – Mag Copper of Toronto has signed a non-binding letter of intent with J.S. Redpath of North Bay, ON, and AR2K Industries of Sudbury, ON, to form a joint venture to mine an underground bulk sample from the Magusi copper-zinc…
NORTH BAY, Ontario – Following in the footsteps of Redpath’s in-house manufactured line of Redbore raise drills, Redpath Raiseboring has introduced an innovative raise drill carrier to their fleet, the Redtrax.
SUDBURY, Ontario – At the annual Workplace Safety North conference, held April 4-10, J.S. Redpath Limited earned top honours in the juried line-up of industry safety innovation awarded annually by the Ontario Mining Contractors’…
“Standing tall” are two words that connotate ‘pride in achievement’ and that’s exactly what J.S. Redpath Limited of North Bay feels right now after successfully answering the question: “What do you do when you have an ore body…