Holy Sunday. – A Canadian military aircraft carrying over 52,000 pounds of machinery, tools and various technologies to help the rescue of the two miners trapped for a week in the Cerro de Maimón, will arrive at 8:00 p.m. this Sunday at the José Francisco Peña Gómez Las Américas International Airport.

The aircraft, which will take off at 4:00 p.m. from Val-d’Or regional airport in Canada, will be received by the Vice-President Raquel Peña and a delegation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

With the shipment of the equipment, he responds to the request made by President Luis Abinader to the federal government of Canada, which was announced during his visit last Thursday to the facilities of the mine of Dominican Mining Company (CORMIDOM) send a message of encouragement to miners Gregory Alexander Méndez Torres and Carlos Yépez Ospina.

Equipment provided includes a Cubex Model 6200 drill, weighing over 25,000 pounds with its mast, and an R-110 Cubex Booster. Also, 8,500-pound equipment reinforcements, tool boxes, rod racks, transformers and miscellaneous equipment make up the rest of the equipment for this type of operation.

The aid, coordinated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MIREX) and the Dominican Ambassador to Canada, Michelle Cohen, was provided by Machines Roger International, a mining company based in Val-d’Or, Canada. It is executed in coordination, in addition to MIREX, with the Ministry of Defence, the Canadian Armed Forces and their counterparts in the Dominican Republic.

CORMIDOM, which manages and operates an underground metal mine in Cerro Maimón, province of Monseñor Nouel, is a Dominican company with Canadian capital and shareholders.

As part of the procedure, Ambassador Cohen was in direct contact with Lieutenant General Carlos Luciano Díaz Morfa, Minister of Defense; Antonio Almonte Reynoso, Minister of Energy and Mines; Miguel de Peña, Mining Advisor to the Executive Power; Christine Laberge, Ambassador of Canada to the Dominican Republic and Elizabeth Mena, Vice-President of CORMIDOM.