📋 Tender Overview
LOCATION Manitoba CanadaScopeThe Wanipigow sand project previously known as the Seymourville silica sand extraction project is being developed by Canadian Premium Sand. The project will supply silica sand to be used in oil and gas operations and glass production. The Wanipigow sand project is estimated to mine 43.2 million tonnes Mt of raw sand and 11.6 million bank cubic metres of waste materials throughout its life. The project has an initial mine life of 25 years. The environmental licence for the project was approved by the government of Manitoba in May 2019 and project construction activities are expected to begin in 2020. The project is being developed with an investment of more than C330m 250m and expected to create 150 jobs. The Wanipigow sand project is located on provincial Crown land surrounded Hollow Water Manigotagan and Seymourville communities in Manitoba. The site is located to the west of Hollow Water First Nation Reserve approximately 200km north-east of the City of Winnipeg. The Wanipigow sand deposit lies within a 25m high hill of Lake Winnipeg Formation an extension of the Historical Black Island silica deposit. The silica sand found at the project site is high-purity quartz with round and uniform grains. The sand deposit was formed during the Paleozoic era of the Ordovician period. Similar sand deposits along the eastern outcrop of Lake Winnipeg were investigated and found to hold sand sandstone and quartzose sandstone. The Wanipigow silica sand project will employ a conventional open pit quarry truck-and-excavator mining operations. The project will witness an active open-pit sand quarry during each year of operation along with site reclamation of closed quarries. The silica sand will be extracted sequentially from each quarry extending across an area of 5ha with depths ranging between 10m and 30m. The project will operate a single active quarry cell in a year while reclamation will be undertaken each year after completion of mining in each cell. The project will utilise tracked push dozers to strip and clear the overburden off the quarry cell while front-end loaders will be used to excavate the sand. Operations at the quarry and the fully enclosed plant will be active for 24 hours a day throughout the week. The project will have the capacity to extract 1.8Mtpa of raw sand.
