Services
Mine Site Construction
Surface infrastructure for operating and developing mines: portal pads, haul and access roads, laydown and shop pads, water management, foundations and underground services. RAM Excavating has worked inside mine operator safety and environmental management systems in British Columbia and Alberta since 1986, around live production, without a lost time incident.
Working around production
On an operating mine the construction schedule is not the priority, the production schedule is. Our crews work to the mine traffic management plan, the mine radio protocol and the mine permit conditions, take direction from the site through the same daily planning process the operator uses, and shut down when production needs the ground. Owners keep bringing us back because we do not need to be supervised into compliance.
Roads, pads and water, built for loaded traffic
Haul roads carry the heaviest vehicles on any site, in the worst weather, over ground that is usually poor. We build them the way they need to be built: proper subgrade preparation, geotextile and geogrid where the ground demands it, structural fill in controlled lifts with compaction testing, crowned and ditched for drainage, with erosion and sediment control installed as part of the road rather than after a turbidity exceedance.
Mine construction scopes we deliver
- Portal pads, ramp excavation and underground access preparation
- Haul roads, access roads and site road maintenance
- Shop, warehouse, laydown and equipment storage pads
- Settling ponds, sedimentation basins, ditching and site water control
- Concrete foundations for process, shop and camp infrastructure
- Buried water, sewer, power and communication services
- Bulk earthworks, overburden stripping and stockpile management
- Erosion and sediment control, reclamation earthworks and site closure works
Remote sites, same standard
A crew hours from the nearest hospital works to exactly the same program as a crew in downtown Quesnel. Site specific safety plans and orientations on every project, daily hazard assessments, emergency response plans written for the actual drive time, and a COR standard safety system behind all of it. Distance from help is the reason the standard does not move.
Where we do this work
Mine and exploration sites across British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan, including remote and camp based operations, mobilised from our offices in Quesnel and Grande Cache.