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?