The Ontario government is providing more than $1 million to expand the Northern Centre for Advanced Technology underground mining centre.
The money will fund a news facility at NORCAT’s Underground Centre in Sudbury to provide companies with a place to design, test and repair technologies that will help develop solutions for the global mining industry.
The Underground Centre is an underground operating mine that provides innovative technology development, testing and demonstration services, as well as experiential and hands-on training services.
“We’re investing to make Ontario’s mining sector – as well as the companies and people that support and service this strategically important industry – more competitive, innovative and current,” George Pirie, Minister of Northern Economic Development and Growth, said in a news release Tuesday.
“Through targeted investments, our government is building a more resilient, prosperous and self-reliant economy that will create jobs and help build communities and businesses across the province.”
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