RE:Hoverbarge proposed for year-round access to Ring of Fire
"Self-propelled, diesel-powered versions can carry up to 200 tonnes and travel at a speed of 10 kilometres an hour over muskeg, water and ice. Larger units would be towed by a tractor with oversized balloon tires". At 10 km an hour that'll be a 3 day trip one way... so who will be making the bucks if a hovercraft is used to haul the cromite... I could see them using this as a means of transporting the equipment etc..up to start the development of the mine but for the hauling of the chromite you're fair better off with a rail road