This Tuesday, August 30th, 10 a.m. at the NORCAT Underground Centre, Strathcone Mine Road, in Levack, you are invited to learn details of a new project involving Cambrian R&D and NSS Canada, which will make mining safer for workers who are underground.
NSS has partnered with Cambrian R&D to develop a harness that would allow an Augmented Reality (AR) headset to fit on a standard miner’s underground hardhat. The AR headset allows miners to operate machinery at a greater distance away from the mining face, potentially reducing the risk of injury.
We invite you to learn more about this project and see a demonstration. It should take you between 40 minutes to arrive on site, if you are leaving from the city’s core.
Directions:
- Take Highway 144 to Onaping
- Turn right at the Onaping Turnoff (Regional Road 8, Nickel Street)
- Proceed past Strathcona Mine Road into Levack and stay on Nickel Street until the 4-way stop at the train tracks.
- Turn right, then a sharp left on to Mine Road.
- Proceed along Mine Road/Coleman Road until you come to a marked 4-way stop next to a Major Drill Rig. You will see the Norcat Facility over the tailings pond to your right before you hit this intersection
- Turn right onto Seal Lake Road and follow the signs towards Strathcona Mine Road.
- Turn right onto Strathcona Mine Road and proceed along it until you see the Norcat Facility on your left- hand side.
