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Mining and Mineral Logistics
For over 50 years, Lynden has been helping mining customers explore, develop and operate mines across Alaska, Canada, and in other locations around the world. From copper and zinc to silver and gold, we are committed to safely and cost-effectively bringing your product to market with our mining and mineral logistics services.
Whether you need camp modules trucked to a remote mining site or charter air support to deliver freight to the top of a mountain, Lynden’s combination of logistics and transportation companies can provide the services you need to make your exploration or mining operation a success. An entire operations team, truck transport of ore concentrates from mine to port, or ship loading and charter barge services – we tailor our services to your specific needs. We can also assist with mine construction, management and setup and distribution of product to smelters anywhere in the world.
Lynden has earned a reputation for safely bringing supplies and equipment to and from hard-to-reach locations, no matter how wide, tall or heavy. With barges, hovercraft and a fleet of L-382 Hercules aircraft, we can access any area and troubleshoot the route ahead of time to make sure there are no worries with oversize permits or sensitive areas. Our unique marine-rail facilities in Whittier and Fairbanks allow for efficient rail-to-truck, barge-to-rail transfer for transporting mining materials.
Specialized equipment and decades of experience allow us to take on extraordinary projects like delivering five oversized 777 Caterpillar trucks from Seattle to Alaska’s Manh Choh Mine via barge and truck. Our Hercules aircraft deliver essential equipment to mines with no road or water access, including a gold mine above the Arctic Circle. We do our best work when challenges arise. When an Idaho mine’s smelter was down for repairs, Lynden pulled together its people, equipment, and multimodal capabilities to transport the concentrate in ore pots from the Lower 48 to an Alaskan port. From there, it was loaded onto a ship bound for an Asian smelter, saving time, money and wasted product.
Every shipment includes Lynden’s free online EZ Commerce system for tracking, tracing and reporting as well as other helpful online tools.
Experience
With an emphasis on safety, innovation and industry compliance, Lynden has provided decades of support to mining customers in the U.S., Canada, the Yukon and other locations. Our experience goes way back to providing services at Alaska’s historic Kennecott Mine in the 1960s. In the 1970s, our Lynden Transport trucks backhauled mining materials southbound on the Alcan Highway for a variety of mines, including one in Cassiar, B.C.
Today, our success stories include the following long-term partnerships:
Since 1998, Lynden has provided logistics, marine, and trucking services for the Red Dog Mine, through a partnership with NANA. The mine is one of the world’s largest producers of zinc concentrate. Our services include delivering supplies to the mine’s port via barge, and mine site trucking of ore concentrates, fuel and mine supplies on the 52-mile road from port to mine. Lynden also supports the mine’s container movement and staging of materials.
Lynden provides weekly barge service and freight hauling at the remote Kensington Gold Mine in the Tongass National Forest. Since 1995 our barges have transported mine supplies from Seattle and backloads of ore southbound. We also provide truck transport and freight stevedoring to various locations at the mine site via a steep, one-lane road.
Lynden assisted with construction of the Greens Creek Mine on Admiralty Island near Juneau in 1989 by barging in construction materials. Since then, we have provided weekly barge service.
Lynden companies transport equipment and supplies to both the Fort Knox and Pogo Gold Mines near Fairbanks. Rock trucks, grinding balls, fuel, and sensitive loads like cyanide and acid for precious metal extraction are all carefully and reliably delivered via land, air, or sea using our array of specialized equipment.
Common Questions
Mines are typically located in remote locations, and often have specific supply chains designed for efficient deliveries. Many have off-highway access roads or their own airports, and others are set up primarily to receive their supplies via marine transportation, like tug and barge. Some have multiple modes of shipping access, some do not. Some have seasonal access and use an ice road in the winter, or ice-free marine transportation in the summer.
Shipping to a mine can be highly time-sensitive, often requiring planning ahead and assessing alternative modes of transport to meet each mine’s unique supply chain. Since most mines are in remote locations, supply chains may require shipping long distances from population centers using specialized equipment. It’s important to plan so that material does not miss open seasonal periods for economical shipping. Some mines have planned shipping that occurs periodically (weekly), so missing a schedule may mean having to shift modes and incur significantly higher costs for on-time delivery. Using a transportation provider, like Lynden, familiar with the specific mine and access to shipping options and schedules is vital for success.
Depending on the products you are shipping, all modes of transportation may be used, including air for smaller, urgent shipments, full containers by land, and heavy-haul or specialized equipment via barge and ship services. Look for a carrier, like Lynden, that can provide all these transportation options for flexibility and the convenience of project management with just one bill.
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