North Bay's Cementation Skanska Canada Inc. has been awarded an $85-million contract to further deepen Falconbridge's Kidd Creek's No. 4 shaft. The project, already underway and scheduled for completion in 2004, is to sink a new 1,906-metre deep access shaft to allow mining at the 3,220-metre level. The innovative project, which will be North America's deepest operating mine, shaves about a year off the original construction timeline. The shaft is already down to the 1,440-metre level and a headframe has been constructed. Cementation Skanska will design the shaft structure, loading pockets and shaft stations.
