Location: Labrador City, Newfoundland & Labrador
Client: Iron Ore Company of Canada
In 1998, the Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOCC) awarded H.J. O’Connell Construction Ltd. the contract to develop a new iron ore pit. This project involved clearing, constructing access roads and drilling and blasting approximately 1.5 million m3 of rock. This is IOCC’s main pit, and is being used to extract in access of 1 billion tonnes of iron ore.