Design, drawing and job supervision of a complete new receiving and stacking of raw material for the Quebec Cartier Mining Plant for the iron ore industry.

The system is unique of its kind and is used to receive self-unloading ships, to handle the by-products and stack the by-products into various stock piles.

The project includes the following characteristics:

• one receiving hopper of raw material, having a capacity of 350 metric tons which receive self-unloading ships. The hopper offers the following characteristics:
  • continuous weighing system using strain gauges;
  • a set of lights and communication system that indicates to the ship captain the volume and the weight of the product inside the hopper; and
  • walk-way system and skirt to minimize dust emission.
• one feeder belt conveyor having a capacity of 2850 metric tons per hour, 60" wide belt with deflector chute that subdivides the flow between two radial stackers;
• addition of a new radial stacker having a span of 285', 36" wide belt, having a capacity of 1500 metric tons per hour. The stacker can store raw material into various stock piles in a circle;
• one series of portable belt conveyors, 110' long, feeding in cascade one radial stacker mentioned above; and
• one existing radial stacker from QCM which has been modified and adapted to give another circle of stock pile. This stacker has a capacity of 1350 metric tons per hour.