Mining — Surface
Sub-contractor since 1982
- Open pit mining and quarrying
- Shaft collaring and drop-raising
- Long-hole drilling
- Site preparation and road excavation
- Backfill and tailings dam quarrying
Capabilities
Drill Hole to Ore Delivery
Integrated Mining Services
Our own drills, explosives and crews
Consbec owns the drills, makes the explosives and employs the crews, so one company is responsible for a job from the first hole to the broken rock. Standard equipment across the fleet and a large parts warehouse keep it running.
Most of our work is in the hard, complex rock of the Canadian Shield, and most of our people live in the North.
Infrastructure
Facilities
- 10acre
- Val Caron head officeSudbury, Ontario
- 30,000sq ft
- Shop facilityNorthern Ontario
- 1,500acre
- Nairn Centre explosives siteDetonator facility
Markets
What we do
Mining — Underground
Mine contractor since 2018
- Development — drill, blast, support, load and haul
- Production — up-hole and down-hole emulsion loading
- Service and utility holes — dewatering, electrical, backfill
- Ground support — anchors, cable support, shotcrete
- Minor construction — ventilation walls and fan set-ups
Energy
Pipeline work since 1981
- Pipeline mainline and distribution
- Hydro-electric
- Wind and solar site preparation
- LNG site preparation
Heavy Civil & Quarry
- Road and highway construction
- Site preparation and rock dowels
- Tunnelling, bridge and dam piers
- Limestone and granite quarrying
- Test drilling and grout holes
Explosives Supply
Manufacturing since 2010
- Bulk emulsion manufacturing and transport
- Packaged explosives and ANFO
- Electronic and non-electric detonators
- Mobile and modular on-site emulsion plants
- Product storage, distribution and customer service
Technical Services
- Budgets, schedules and procurement consulting
- On-site operational support
- Third-party verified testing of ground support and shotcrete panels
- Blast vibration monitoring
- Land surveying
Equipment
A fleet of 100+ drills
Our drilling side grew out of a Gardner Denver, Terex Reedrill and CAT dealership, and today we distribute Hyundai Everdigm hydraulic drills. Because we sell and rebuild drills ourselves, the carriers, drifters and parts are on hand, and our own shop services them.
Hydraulic top hammer drills
1½" – 7" diameter
Surface and underground carriers, drifters and parts supported in-house.
Jumbo drills
Underground development
Development headings, ground support and service holes.
Down-the-hole (DTH) drills
4" – 10" diameter
Production drilling in open pit and quarry applications.
Rotary drills
9⅞" – 15" diameter
Large-diameter production holes.
Explosives delivery fleet
- 25
- Bulk pumpers2 t – 20 t capacities, rough terrain and cold weather capable
- 20
- Highway & storage tankers20 t capacity, point-to-point bulk emulsion distribution
- 500ft
- Pumping reachLong-distance borehole loading with minimal access construction
- 100,000kg
- Daily plant capacityDual batch plant, single shift
Strengths
What we do best
- Ore dilution control
- Fragmentation tuned to the mill downstream
- Ground control
- Vibration control beside dams, highways and buildings
- Bulk emulsion on construction jobs
- Mine closure work, surface and underground
Health & Safety
Health and safety
We are covered by Ontario’s WSIB and by WorkSafeBC, and every facility, site and project is audited and inspected under one health and safety management system.
In-house training
Programs for drillers, blasters, operators, mechanics and supervision, with training records and matrices maintained and provided to clients.
Drug & alcohol program
Pre-employment and post-incident testing, with 100% employee enrollment.
Third-party certification
Blaster, Shifter and Supervisor certifications (B.C.), WHMIS and First Aid.
Critical Controls Program
Risk assessment to identify operational exposures, with defined controls for high-potential activities.
Health & safety management system
An HSMS designed to eliminate or mitigate risk, with roles and responsibilities defined at every level of the organization.
Auditing & injury management
An auditing and inspection program across all facilities, sites and projects, with an injury management and return-to-work program.
Next Step
Have a project?
Tell us the ground conditions and the schedule. We’ll tell you how we’d approach it.