Milestones

IOS, 27 years of expertise and growth in order to meet your needs. A long tradition.

  • 10 July, 1992: Foundation of IOS by six doctoral students studying at Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)
  • 1993: First contracts from prospectors
  • 1994: First microanalyses contracts from Saskatchewan Energy and Mines
  • 1995: First numerisation contract for the SIGÉOM system for the ministère de l’Énergie et des Ressources du Québec
  • 1997: Lac Doré Project: First exploration contract over $1 000  000
  • 1997: Stock market crash
  • 1998: First large contract for heavy mineral analysis for BHP Billiton Diamonds Inc.
  • 1998: First international contract in Mauritania
  • 1999: Restructuring of the company to have one single stockholder
  • 2001: Start of the diamond exploration surge
  • 2003: Purchase of present day offices on Boulevard St-Paul, Chicoutimi
  • 2005: First lake bottom sediment sampling campaign
  • 2006: First large soil sampling campaign
  • 2007: Beginning of the uranium and iron ore exploration booms
  • 2008: Involvement in a series of feasibility studies
  • 2008: Global financial crisis
  • 2009: Purchase of an industrial building destined for a laboratory, logistics and storage
  • 2010: 100 000 meters drilled
  • 2011: Participation in the development of the KASKOO-X04 all-terrain vehicle
  • 2012: Recession in the mining industry
  • 2013: Purchase of a scanning electron microscope (SEM)
  • 2014 : Cheechoo project
  • 2015 : ARTGold method development
  • 2016 : Time for your project?

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