Being located in the 'Canada's mining centre' prompted move north for Wireline Services Group (Canada)
Wireline Services Group got its start more than 20 years ago working in the historic Kambalda nickel and gold mining region of Western Australia.
“It’s the mining centre of Canada,” said CEO Joe Dwyer, when asked what prompted the move north from Toronto. “Everyone calls Sudbury the birthplace of nickel.” The company’s bread and butter work is subsurface boreline geophysics and surface geophysics, mainly for mine exploration and development. Basically, they provide various advanced technical solutions for mining companies to better understand the geological makeup of ore bodies.
“We thought, why aren’t we in Sudbury? It’s so obvious, we’ve spent pre-COVID and COVID battling to do business in Scarborough where we have no mining connection. Sudbury, why not?” One of WSG’s largest clients back home is Fortescue Metals Group, the Western Australian iron ore company owned by mining magnate Andrew Forrest, who’s Tattarang private investment group runs Wyloo. Dwyer describes business as being “very buoyant” for the last year.