The City of Greater Sudbury and the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board will build a new mine-rescue training centre in Ontario.
The facility represents a significant investment in provincial industrial safety, aiming to provide advanced, hands-on rescue training for miners to reduce fatalities and injuries in underground environments.
The project carries an estimated cost of $125 million [1]. The new Ontario Mine Rescue Training Institute will occupy a 40,000-square-foot facility [2], which is designed to simulate high-risk mining scenarios. According to project plans, the centre will feature specialized areas for live-fire exercises, rope-work, and confined-space training [3].
To facilitate the development, the City of Greater Sudbury is providing the land for the site. The facility will be located on Frood Road in Sudbury, positioned adjacent to Vale’s Stobie mine [4]. This location places the training hub in the heart of one of the world's most active mining districts.
Officials said the centre is scheduled to open in 2029 [5]. The partnership between the city and the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board is intended to modernize how rescue teams prepare for emergencies across the province's mining sector [6].
By centralizing these resources, the province intends to standardize rescue protocols. The 40,000-square-foot space [2] will allow teams to practice complex maneuvers in a controlled environment before facing real-world hazards in the field.
“The project carries an estimated cost of $125 million.”
The establishment of a dedicated, large-scale training institute in Sudbury leverages the city's existing mining infrastructure to improve provincial safety standards. By integrating live-fire and confined-space simulations, the province is shifting toward a more proactive, simulation-based readiness model for mine rescue, which may reduce response times and increase survivor rates during underground emergencies.
