Consbec in Ontario
What we do here
Ontario is home. Our head office and main shop are in Val Caron, outside Sudbury, and our explosives site is at Nairn Centre. Most of our crews live in the North.
We drill and blast open pits and mine sites across northern Ontario, have cut rock on five contracts for the twinning of Highway 11/17 between Thunder Bay and Nipigon, and run underground crews at mines from Red Lake to Timmins. Our pipeline work in the province goes back to 1981.
- 5projects shown below
- 8underground jobs
- 1981first pipeline job in the province
- 2Consbec sites
On the Ground
Our sites in Ontario
Head Office
Sudbury
Head office and shop complex on a 10-acre site, with a 30,000 sq ft maintenance facility supporting the group's drilling fleet.
Explosives Site
Nairn Centre
A 1,500-acre licensed explosives site and the group's detonator assembly facility. It is the base of Consbec's explosives operations.
Projects
Our work in Ontario
Highways
Highway 11/17 Twinning
Thunder Bay to Nipigon, Ontario
Drill and blast across five contracts on the twinning of the Trans-Canada Highway between Thunder Bay and Nipigon — cutting rock for new lanes with traffic running alongside.
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Surface mining
Côté Gold
Ontario · Surface drill & blast
Surface mining
Lac des Îles Mine
Thunder Bay, Ontario · Surface drill & blast · 6 years
Surface mining
Macassa Mine
Kirkland Lake, Ontario · Surface drill & blast · ongoing
Surface mining
Mine Site Preparation
Ontario · 2020–Present
Underground
Underground in Ontario
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Borden Mine
Chapleau, Ontario
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Young-Davidson Mine
Matachewan, Ontario
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Island Gold Mine
Dubreuilville, Ontario
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Bell Creek Mine
Timmins, Ontario
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Madsen Mine
Red Lake, Ontario
Underground
Onaping Depth Shaft
Sudbury, Ontario
Underground
Moxley Tunnel
Ontario
Underground
Red Lake Portals
Red Lake, Ontario
Stock photos: Young-Davidson Mine — photo by Office of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan (primeminister.kz), CC BY 4.0; Island Gold Mine — photo by Draceane, CC BY-SA 4.0; Bell Creek Mine — photo by Peeter Paaver, CC BY 4.0; Madsen Mine — photo by Allill (Korean Wikipedia), CC BY-SA 3.0; Onaping Depth Shaft — photo by Allill (Korean Wikipedia), CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Pipeline
26 pipeline jobs in Ontario
- Ottawa, ON1981
- Bracebridge, ON1988
- Hearst, ON1989
- Kapuskasing, ON1989
- Nipigon / Upsala / Armstrong, ON1990
- Smooth Rock Falls, ON
- Martin River, ON
- Vermillion Bay, ON1996
- Upsala / Jellicoe, ON1997
- Ottawa, ON
- Vermillion Bay, ON1998
- Jellicoe, ON1998
- Kenora, ON1998
- Swastika, ON1999
- Chalk River, ON1999
- Hearst, ON1999
- Huntsville, ON2001
- North Bay, ON2002
- Stittsville / Deux Rivières, ON2007
- Kirkland Lake, ON1990
- Kenora, ON1991
- Marmora, ON1997
- Parry Sound, ON2000
- Oakville, ON2003
- Niagara Falls, ON2006
- Parry Sound, ON2010
Across Canada
Where else we work
Manitoba
An emulsion plant north of Winnipeg, and underground crews at Snow Lake.
Nova Scotia
Highway rock cuts, building excavations and anchored walls in and around Halifax.
New Brunswick
Our Atlantic emulsion plant near Moncton, and spillway blasting beside tailings dams in the north.
British Columbia
Pipeline right-of-way across the north, with a site in development at Terrace.