Site Services & Crushing

Mineral exploration and mine site services requires specialize knowledge of Canada's remote and harsh northern conditions and terrain.  NUNA's high-Arctic experienced personnel are well equipped to provide efficient site services comprising:

• site planning
• crushing
• fully staffed infrastructures
• camp, shops and facilities installation, maintenance and upgrades
• road and site maintenance
• aircraft support
• fuel handling
• freight handling
• communications and administration support

Crushing services - being open for business from Day 1 of Canada’s diamond discovery, NUNA has supplied the majority of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories mine developments with vital crushing services and site infrastructure construction. By employing NUNA’s complete crushing plants, NUNA has crushed natural esker or recycled mine pit waste rock and blasted rock for the construction of runways (3,000' to 7,000'); over 400 km of site access roads (20 m to 25 m wide x 1 m to 3 m high); laydown pads for 100 to 350 person camps, shops and tank farms, and dam and dike material. 

NUNA key projects

108 km Tehek Road - Crushed, Moved & Placed 1.7 Million m³
Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited, Meadowbank Project, Nunavut, Canada

NUNA M&T Services Ltd. constructed the longest all-weather road in Nunavut employing NUNA M&T's heavy equipment construction fleet, crushing plant and a crew of 60⁺ to drill, blast, crush, move and place over 1.7 million m³ of material. 

7,000' Runway & Infrastructures - Crushed, Moved, Placed 300,000+ Million m³
BHP Billiton Diamonds Inc., Ekati Diamond Mine, Northwest Territories, Canada

NUNA has provided crushing and construction services to BHP Billiton since the early years of mine development.  NUNA's 1st projects required crushing, moving and placement of 100,000 tonnes of blasted granite for the construction a 7,000' runway, plant site, and 31 km access and haulage road linking Ekati site to the Misery site.  NUNA continued to provide crushing and construction services to BHP Billiton until 2008 resulting in an approximate cumulative crush of 300,000+ tonnes.

716,800 m³  (finished product of 19 mm to 150 mm)
Diavik Diamond Mines Inc., Diavik Diamond Mine, Northwest Territories, Canada

Lac de Gras Constructors (LDGC), a partnership of NUNA Logistics and Peter Kiewit Sons Ltd., developed the Diavik mine site earthworks which involved the crushing of material for the construction of  5,250' airstrip, haul roads, plant site, kimberlite containment facilities, A154 and A418 water retaining dikes and cutoff walls, and 200,000⁺ m³ crush for processed kimberlite containment dams, North Inlet dam.  Additional contracts included jaw-only crush for 70,000 tonne of kimerlite material to a finished product of  304 mm and 716,800 m³ of crushed material to a finished product of 19 mm up to 150 mm.