Sandvik announces $45 million deal with De Beers

Peter Jarvis, vice-president of underground hardrock mining with Sandvik Mining and Construction, says Greater Sudbury's economy will benefit from his company's $45 million deal with De Beers Canada.

Sandvik, which has a branch office in the Walden Industrial Park, is supplying drills, trucks and loaders and mechanical bolting machines for a De Beers diamond mine in Snap Lake, Northwest Territories.

The machines were built in Finland, shipped by sea to Halifax, and driven on trucks to Greater Sudbury.

Local Sandvik employees will alter the machines so they are ready to be used at Snap Lake. About 40 Sandvik workers, some of them from Greater Sudbury, will be sent to the De Beers project to maintain the equipment.