specializes in the sale of second hand equipment for mining and mineral processing. Relationships with most new products manufacturers, enables the company to offer competitive new product alternatives as well. The company conducts liquidations of closed mines and cement plants, and maintains a computerized database of surplus equipment located at numerous minesites throughout North America and at
various sites overseas. The company has used equipment available for virtually all aspects of the mining and mineral benification process, including equipment for underground mining and tunneling, surface mining, material handling, crushing, grinding, separating, concentrating, filtering, pumping, dewatering, drying and loading. Complete plants can often be matched or adapted to a purchaser’s needs. Equipment and plants usually become surplus not because of obsolescence or breakdown but because of changes in a process or depletion of an orebody. The pool of used surplus equipment allows purchasers to make savings in both cost and delivery time when compared to the purchase of new equipment. Nelson Machinery & Equipment can offer items on a “as is” basis, subject to the buyers inspection and approval, or alternatively on a “reconditioned” basis. The company also sells surplus and new parts for many types of mining equipment. In addition to equipment sales, the company offers various services including appraisals of used equipment and complete plants. Experience in the marketplace makes the company uniquely qualified to provide an accurate assessment of current market values. Whether the evaluation involves a single piece of equipment, or a complete plant, selling clients can be confident of a realistic and fair appraisal. An aggressive marketing program can then be developed, designed to bring the equipment to the attention of prospective buyers worldwide. Export sales are conducted through the head office located in Langley. The company also has a sales office, shop facility, warehouse and a 14-acre equipment storage yard at Savona, in central BC.
