Vale will invest $49 million in a demonstration plant in Copper Cliff which will feature Rail-Veyor technology and offer opportunities to test safer and more efficient mining techniques and new, specialized equipment.

The project is expected to create roughly 100 jobs for the duration of the project. Completion is scheduled for the first quarter of 2013.

Natural Resources Canada – July 2011

TORONTO — Today, on behalf of Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, the Honourable Joe Oliver, Mark Adler, Member of Parliament for York Centre, and Ted Opitz, Member of Parliament for Etobicoke Centre, announced that the Government of Canada, through Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), will invest $7 million for clean technology projects in Ontario.

Engineering & Mining Journal Thursday, 10 February 2011

Offering mining equipment and services ranging from basic ‘big iron’ to high tech, companies in the Sudbury/North Bay/Timmins area are taking a hard look at export-market opportunities.

Canada’s Northern Ontario, a region larger than France and Germany combined—representing about 90% of the land area of the entire province, but containing only a small fraction of its people—is geographically distant from most population centers but is solidly emplaced in the nexus of world-class mining districts that form the backbone of the global minerals industry. The region’s Sudbury Basin is host to one of the world’s largest deposits of nickel and copper, and offers such favorable prospects for additional mineral wealth that it has attracted billions of investment dollars from both Canadian and international mining giants such as Brazil’s Vale (Vale Ltd., formerly Inco) and Switzerland’s Xstrata plc (Xstrata Nickel, formerly Falconbridge).

Mining Engineering-Dec 2010

by William Gleason, Senior Editor

From a distance, the 0.75-km (0.5-mile) rail line that sits in the shadows of Vale-Inco’s Stobie Mine outside of Sudbury, Ontario could be mistaken for a standard conveyor belt hauling ore from the nearby mine. But with its large, yellow-painted loop and interconnected green rail cars that invert themselves on the loop before correcting with a smooth rollover further down the track, one might assume that this is some sort of test track for a new roller coaster. The fact of the matter is that it is the proving ground for Rail-Veyor technology, a technology that the company hopes will one day change the face of ore transportation in surface and underground mines around the world.

Sudbury Mining Solutions Journal 

The mission to commercialize Rail-Veyor material handling technology has been cranked up a notch.

Peter Golde, Vale’s chief engineer, research and development, announced at the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy’s Maintenance Engineering and Mine Operators …

New Rail-Veyor system allows marginal mineralization to become economical

Northern Ontario Business – Feb 2010

It only seems fitting that Greater Sudbury would be the testing site for a new underground mine technology that could change the face of deep mining forever. After all, it is one of the most prolific mineralized deposits in the world, with more than 100 years of mining in its history. The city, its residents and businesses have experienced many mine evolutions, but this one is sure to impact local and global mining in a monumental way.

By 2010, Kelly Lake may be the site of a brand new technologically-advanced Vale Inco mine where there will be no shafts, no head frame, no ropes, crushers, conveyor belts, no toggle replacements, no main ore passes, no haulage trucks, little diesel fumes and no drifts larger than 12 ” by ” 12 feet.

Northern Life -Feb 2010

By 2010, Kelly Lake may be the site of a brand new, technologically advanced, Vale Inco mine. Imagine this: no shafts, no head frame, no ropes, crushers, conveyor belts, no toggle replacements, no main ore passes, no haulage trucks, little diesel fumes and no drifts larger than 12-by-12 feet. Welcome to the Rail-Veyor operated mine. In a city that has hauled ore from its belly for more than 100 years, change is coming. A second feasibility study on Kelly Lake is looking at an all Rail-Veyor option.

Sudbury Mining Solutions Journal – 2008

BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN

What if a mine could transport ore underground quickly and inexpensively and, at the same time, reduce diesel emissions?

Starting in September 2008, Sudbury-based Rail-Veyor Technologies Inc. will demonstrate a novel …