Shell said that a large tear in the belt had forced all bitumen production from the mine to be stopped while the partners in the Athabasca Oil Sands project assessed the damage.
The conveyor belt, the largest in the world, transports ore from the crushers to the storage silo at the mine north of Fort McMurray.
"Without the conveyor belt, we are unable to feed ore into our plant," a spokeswoman said.
"So
