Fecunis-North Mine

Producer in Ontario, Canada with commodities Nickel, Copper, PGE, Gold, Silver, Cobalt, Selenium, Tellurium
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Host and associated rocks
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Geologic structures
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10024461
MRDS ID ISM0177
Record type Site
Current site name Fecunis-North Mine
Alternate or previous names North Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.3534, 46.65693 (WGS84)
Relative position MINE; 200 M

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Canada Ontario

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Nickel Critical Primary
Copper Primary
PGE Critical Primary
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Cobalt Critical Primary
Selenium Primary
Tellurium Critical Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Sudbury Sublayer;Levack Complex
    Rock description Sudbury Sublayer;Levack Complex

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.3534, 46.65693

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Footwall Breccia Below The Base Of The Sudbury Nickel Irruptive.

Ore body information

  • Depth to top 300M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1964
Year of first production 1965
Year of last production 1982

Mining district

District name Sudbury Mining Division; Sudbury District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Falconbridge Ltd.
    Home office Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ONTARIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, SMDR000861

  • Deposit

    ANON., 1959, THE FALCONBRIDGE STORY: CANADIAN MINING JOURNAL, V. 80, NO. 6, P. 105-127.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1982 Zwartendyk, Jan Energy Mines and Resources of Canada

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.