Hundreds of Sudbury residents got a close-up look June 20 at how the largest mining and refining company in Sudbury is moving forward with new technology.
The event was the annual Vale community open house, an event that had been cancelled for a couple of years because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The venue was Vale’s North Atlantic operations headquarters building in Copper Cliff, also known as the former engineering building.
One of the more popular displays at the event was the tour of Vale’s Integrated Remote Operations Centre (IRoC) which takes up a significant area of the building.
Because the technology is new, and because much of the technology is proprietary, no photography or video recording was allowed there.
In a large open area of several hundred square metres, the walls are dominated by large graphics with signs indicating the various Vale mines in large block letters — CREIGHTON — COLEMAN — COPPER CLIFF — TOTTEN — GARSON.
Beneath each was a series of large flat screen televisions with numerous charts and diagrams showing various mining operations in real time.
Other flatscreens had multiple live shots of actual tunnels and mining areas where work was underway, again in real time.
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