Can't buy powder or caps anymore without a joint magazine license which is a liability question. Minimum door price for your own magazine(s) (Caps and powder are 2 mags) is 30K irrespective of land price and development cost. That is just the specialty doors -- they cost 30K together and then there is the no penetration reinforced concrete, sand filled mags themselves. Fenced land is another, every 24 hour checks when dynamite is present is yet another cost. In my opinion you are looking at 40K a year, and 100K for set up bare minimum. If prospectors/small companies wanted a joint license for 200 people/firms it could cost from 500 to 1,250 CDN each to start up and probably 250 each per year for occasional powder use. (not counting cost of powder -- and you would need to rent it (min cost 50 bucks a day.) when powder was in there, as the worker has to be there to check the mags every 24 hours if even one stick is left there. Nitro HAS to be cleared within a certain time, and powder returned HAS to be competently inspected before storage. An old miner is your only conceivable person to work there and he needs WMHS, first aid and other courses (blasting and special explosives hazmat and firefighting) to work there.
If dynamite freezes it is a problem so the block houses need electric heat for plus 40 degrees F when nitro dynamite is present.) Possibility of a government grant is there for small business.
Reality is you would need to sell powder to make it work. Insurance would be 10K a year. I would not personally take anyone on a joint license (which does not require storage of powder at any time) unless they checked out with no substance charges, no large debts, and no serious fraud, theft, or violence charges. Absolutely no MC members or other suspect orgs. Legit farmers, miners, roadwork companies and prospectors only need apply.
It might make sense to make a hazardous substance parking lot on outskirts chain linked fenced, as drivers cannot be unwaking or out of truck for any time now. Many fines being laid these days. Serious to ticket too. Austin paid about 50K one time for a driver covering his hazmat sign and going asleep in a hotel room. And there are plenty of hazmat trucks on highway from fuels to fertilizer and insecticide to dynamite. Need fence, heated blockhouse and retiree to do shift work. 250 a night for commercial, 50 for non. Build a motel 1/4 mile away and you would make double money. My bet is at Hearst and Kenora you would make 6 or 7 trucks a night. Need 100+ feet between trucks, so we are talking an old lumber yard.
Compare that however to the 1500 a day for a commercial blaster to load and blast your holes. Plus powder and plus access to claims....
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