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    Cementation Canada Island Gold contract: materials handling insights for mine planners

    May 1, 2026|

    Reviewed by Tom Sullivan

    Cementation Canada Island Gold contract: materials handling insights for mine planners

    First reported on International Mining – News

    30 Second Briefing

    Cementation Canada has secured the underground ore and waste handling system construction contract at Alamos Gold’s Island Gold Mine in Dubreuilville, Ontario, returning after completing underground development and construction work there in 2019 and 2021. The scope centres on new materials handling infrastructure to support Island Gold’s expanding underground operations, where hoisting capacity and efficient waste movement are key constraints in deep narrow-vein mining. For geotechnical and mining teams, the award signals continued capital investment in underground materials handling upgrades rather than short-term contract development.

    Technical Brief

    • Contract scope explicitly covers both underground ore and waste handling system construction at Island Gold.
    • Cementation Canada is acting as construction contractor rather than mine operator or EPCM lead.
    • Award follows earlier Cementation underground development and construction campaigns at Island Gold in 2019 and 2021.
    • Repeat engagement suggests continuity in excavation methods, ground support standards and shaft/level layouts already established.
    • For similar Canadian underground mining projects, repeat contractors can reduce interface risk and re‑learning on deep infrastructure.

    Our Take

    In our database of 1224 Mining stories, Canada-based gold work such as Alamos Gold’s Island Gold Mine tends to feature a high proportion of underground expansion and debottlenecking contracts, signalling that brownfield optimisation is still absorbing a lot of project capital versus new greenfield builds.

    Repeat awards to contractors like Cementation Canada at the same Ontario operation, following earlier work noted in 2019 and 2021, usually indicate that owners are prioritising continuity of underground design philosophy and equipment standards, which can simplify long-term maintenance and integration of new ore and waste handling systems.

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    Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.

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