A fleet of construction machines is working in a very tough climate in Canada, helping to keep an important road link open. Tsetsaut Ventures, a local contracting company, is using its fleet of Volvo CE equipment to maintain an 11km ice road that runs over the Knipple Glacier in the remote North Western region of British Columbia.
The ice highway allows for the transportation of supplies and materials to a remote underground extraction operation, located in the Golden Triangle, an area known for its abunda
In the Canadian city of Coquitlam, 3,628tonnes of glacial clay is being excavated every day across a 90hectare aggregate open-pit mine.
LaFarge in North America is the largest diversified supplier of construction materials in the United States and Canada. For the last decade the company has used Greater Vancouver-based contractor, Vertex Excavating, to work across its 90hectare aggregate open-pit mine, exposing and transporting some of the best concrete aggregate material available on the market.
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