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North American Construction Group’s mining and heavy construction division has over fifty years of earthworks experience in hard rock and oil sands mining, overburden removal, mine site development, and mine reclamation. The division has extensive project management and design-build construction experience, and can deliver constructability design reviews, budgetary cost estimates, and a full range of planning and scheduling services. By getting involved early in projects, North American Construction Group often helps clients define project scope, cost, project timelines and project risk.

North American Construction Group’s absolute and uncompromising commitment to health and safety, and to the protection of the environment, is a core operating principle of the company and its operating divisions. The mining and heavy construction division continuously strives to improve its safety performance through ongoing training, employee competency testing and evaluation, and through the use of an extensive range of management tools and techniques designed to improve safety performance.

Did You Know: NACG has over 900 pieces of equipment making us the largest fleet in Western Canada including three Hitachi EX8000 shovels.

North American Construction Group’s modern fleet (approaching 900) of haul trucks, cable shovels, hydraulic excavators, and related pieces of mining equipment, is the largest in Western Canada and features the biggest hydraulic and cable shovels available. This large and diverse fleet gives NACG the ability to respond quickly to changing client requirements, and to provide equipment that is optimally sized for each project.

The division is led by a talented and experienced leadership team that has developed a highly skilled and engaged operations team. The division has fostered excellent relationships with key clients and has earned a solid reputation for completing projects safely, on budget and on schedule, while adhering to the utmost standards of quality. The division has a very strong customer focus and measures success by its customers’ success.

Our services include:

  • Constructability reviews
  • Budgetary cost estimates
  • Design-build construction
  • Project Management
  • Contract mining (drill, blast, excavation and haulage)
  • Pre-stripping / pit pioneering
  • Overburden removal and stockpile
  • Muskeg removal and stockpile
  • Site preparation (drill, blast, excavate, fill, grade,
    piling)
  • Air strip construction (gravel and asphalt)
  • Site dewatering / perimeter ditching
  • Tailings and process pipelines
  • Haulage and access road construction
  • Tailings dam construction
  • Tailings densification
  • Mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) walls
  • Dyke construction
  • Reclamation (materials replacement, compaction, terrain
    contouring and hydro-seeding)

 

Heavy Construction & Mining Brochure

 
 
 
CNRL Horizon Overburden & Mine Services

Canadian Natural Resources Limited’s Horizon Project is located 70 kilometres north of Fort McMurray in the Alberta oil sands. Phase 1 start-up is scheduled for the third quarter of 2008, which will see production of 110,000 barrels of synthetic crude oil (SCO) per day.Future phases will see production of 232,000 barrels of SCO per day, followed in due course by an expansion to 500,000 barrels of SCO per day.

North American Construction Group is contracted to remove approximately 400 million bank cubic metres (BCM) of overburden, including 300 million BCM of tailing dyke construction. NACG’s 53,000 square foot on-site maintenance facility has truck maintenance bays, a welding bay, and a wash bay to ensure that NACG’s fleet is kept in optimal condition.

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De Beers Victor Project

The Victor Project is located in the James Bay Lowlands of Northern Ontario, approximately 90 kilometres west of the coastal First Nations community of Attawapiskat. The Victor mine is the first diamond mine in Ontario and the second in Canada for De Beers.

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Grande Cache Coal Corporation

Grande Cache Coal Corporation’s (GCCC) coal leases cover over 22,000 hectares of the Smoky River Coalfield located in west-central Alberta, within the inner foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The mine is located approximately 20 kilometres north of the town of Grande Cache, and 360 kilometres west of Edmonton. Metallurgical coal has been produced in the Grande Cache area since 1969.

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Albian Muskeg River Labour & Equipment Supply

Albian Sand Energy Inc. is the operator of the Muskeg River Mine located 75 kilometres north of Fort McMurray. The site produces 155,000 Bbls of bitumen per day for the Athabasca Oils Sands Project which is a joint venture among Shell Canada Limited, Chevron Canada and Marathon Oil Canada Corporation.

NACG supplies equipment and labour to perform work that is extraneous to the core mine production and have been doing this since the mine began production 7 years ago.

In recent years this has included:
Muskeg Stripping
Salvaging of reclamation material

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Albian Sands Jackpine Mine Development

Albian Sands’ Jackpine Mine is located approximately 70 kilometers north of Fort McMurray and is designed to produce 200 000 barrels per day (bpd) of bitumen product. The Jackpine Mine is planned to have full production in 2010. The Jackpine Mine is part of The Athabasca Oil Sands Project (AOSP) a joint venture between a joint venture among Shell Canada Limited, Chevron Canada and Marathon Oil Canada Corporation.

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