10 Mile Bay operations started at the end of August, and were scheduled to shut down on October 26th.
However, operations had to be extended due to equipment downtime.
Chris Webb, Vice President of Operations, says they extracted about 30 blocks of raw material, which range from 5-10 cubic meters/block.
He adds that quarry operations went extremely well this season.
The raw materials were well received by the inspectors, who said that the blocks extracted are okay for market.
He says that they have only a couple more days of work left.
According to Webb, the two barges at the quarry site will be used to remove contaminated soils and materials from the Hopedale PCB remediation program.
So the Nunatsiavut Group of Companies will have to use external resources to ship the blocks to the Market.
The tug that is used at 10 Mile bay is currently coming down from the James Bay area in Quebec.
Consequently, they may have to use other methods of shipping to transport the 30 blocks of stone from Ten Mile Bay.
Current operations at 10 Mile Bay include getting the loader operational to move additional blocks closer to the lay down area.
They are also prepping the drills and gear for winter storage.
Webb adds that if they do not have the opportunity to ship the blocks out this season, they will return next season to ship them out to market using their own equipment.
In other Nunatsiavut Group of Company operations, the company will be delivering approximately 150 cords of wood to Nain, Hopedale, and Makkovik.
A larger portion of the wood will be delivered to Nain and Hopedale given their larger populations.
The wood comes out of Happy Valley Goose Bay.
It will be distributed to the Inuit Community Governments (ICG’s) during this shipping season.
Several containers full of wood are sitting on the dock in Goose Bay ready for shipment on the next available run north.
At which time, the ICG’s will disperse the wood to elderly populations, single parent families and those who are unable to get wood themselves.
They are also currently looking at working on a plan to assist Rigolet and Postville with other ways to obtain wood for elders.
Webb says that this is the 2nd year that they’ve delivered wood to the ICG’s on the North Coast.
Webb is hopeful that they will be able to make wood delivery to Nunatsiavut communities an annual project.