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(Photo from Nickel Belt M-P Marc Serre’s Twitter feed)

By Stew Kernan

The Canadian Space Agency has awarded a company in Capreol a contract to help develop a multi-purpose device that’s designed for future mining on the moon and Mars.

Deltion Innovations will use $700,000 to develop the combination drill and rotary multi-use tool, described as a space-age Swiss Army knife.

Deltion CEO Dale Boucher says the device, which would be installed on the end of a robotic arm, is designed to drill into rock and other materials to capture a variety of samples.

He says this proto-type will be used here on earth with an eye on space as part of the next phase.

The design pre-work should be complete by the summer with construction to follow.