Translation for Energy and Mining
Translation of environmental impact assessments, technical reports, HSE procedures and consultation documents for Canadian energy and mining projects.
What does Asiatis translate for energy and mining?
Asiatis translates the documentation of Canadian energy and mining projects: environmental impact assessments, technical reports, health and safety procedures, safety data sheets and public consultation material. These texts are filed with bodies that publish them, and read by local communities as much as by engineers.
Documents handled
Each document type raises a difficulty of its own — and that is what decides how the engagement is organized.
Environmental impact assessment
A document running to thousands of pages, filed and then published: it will be read by project opponents as closely as by the regulator.
Technical reports and feasibility studies
Units, orders of magnitude and geological notation: one displaced decimal reclassifies a deposit.
Health, safety and environment procedures
Posted on site and applied by multilingual crews — clarity outranks literal fidelity.
Safety data sheets
Format and statements are prescribed: translation reorganizes nothing and rewords no hazard statement.
Public and community consultation material
Aimed at non-specialist readers; the register shifts completely from the rest of the file.
Agreements and supply contracts
Legal texts embedded in a technical file, carrying their own formal requirements.
Industry vocabulary
A few terms where the calque is expensive. They enter the account glossary on the first engagement.
- Résidus miniers
- Renders "tailings". The broader "déchets miniers" names different material in a regulatory file.
- Teneur
- Renders "grade" — ore concentration. Translating it as "quality" is a plain error in a technical report.
- Mise en valeur
- Renders "development" in the sense of bringing a deposit into production, distinct from developing a project.
- Restauration du site
- Renders "reclamation". "Réhabilitation" also circulates, but the two do not cover the same obligations province to province.
Applicable regulatory requirements
What makes translation mandatory in this sector, and under whose authority. We tell you what applies to your situation before the quote, not after the invoice.
Canada Energy Regulator
Filings before the Regulator are handled in both official languages, and hearings may be held in either.
Official source: Canada Energy RegulatorImpact Assessment Agency of Canada
Impact assessment documents are made public in both official languages.
Official source: Impact Assessment Agency of CanadaWHMIS 2015
Safety data sheets and hazardous product labels are provided in both French and English, in the prescribed format.
Official source: WHMIS — Health CanadaCharter of the French Language (Bill 96)
On a Quebec site, safety instructions, training and worker communications are delivered in French.
Official source: Charter of the French Language (CQLR c. C-11) — LégisQuébec
Last regulatory review: July 27, 2026. Provided for information only. This is not legal advice. Consult legal counsel for your own situation.
Most requested language pairs
Standard translation rates per word. Certified translation is billed differently and delivered in 2 to 3 business days.
| Language pair | Standard rate per word |
|---|---|
| English ↔ French (Quebec/Canada) | $0.17 – $0.19/word |
| English ↔ Spanish (Latin America) | $0.17 – $0.19/word |
| English ↔ Portuguese (Brazil) | $0.16 – $0.18/word |
| English ↔ Russian | $0.18 – $0.20/word |
The full grid is on the pricing page.
A representative engagement
High-volume regulatory filing
A proponent files an impact assessment running to thousands of pages, with technical appendices and a plain-language summary for the public. The engagement is split across several translators under a shared glossary, locked before work starts onto the project's geological nomenclature and units. The public summary goes to a different writer: it is the one part of the file whose reader is not an engineer, and rendering it in the register of the main body would make it useless.
Sector questions
Can you absorb a study running to thousands of pages?
Yes, by splitting the text across several translators under a shared glossary. Terminological consistency does not come from having one person translate, but from having one terminology prevail.
What do you do about units and figures?
They are checked separately from the text, in a dedicated pass. This is the error class a linguistic review does not catch, because the sentence stays perfectly correct.
Do you translate community consultation material?
Yes, and not in the register of the technical file. A public summary written in engineering language misses its audience and feeds the charge of opacity.
Are safety data sheets in scope?
Yes. They follow standardized formats and hazard statements that the translation carries across as they stand, without rewording.
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