(Facility) Tokyo Nickel Matsuzaka Refinery

Plant in Tokyo, Japan with commodity Nickel
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Ownership information
  9. Production statistics
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10182969
MAS/MILS ID 5880401056
Record type Site
Current site name (Facility) Tokyo Nickel Matsuzaka Refinery
Alternate or previous names Tokyo Nickel Smelter

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: 139.74871, 35.66538 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tokyo(province)

Japan(country)

Asia(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Japan Tokyo

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Nickel Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) 139.74871, 35.66538

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Processing Plant
Development status Plant
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Year of first production 1975
Plant type Refiner

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Tokyo Nickel Co.
    Home office Japan
    Year 1991
  • Type Owner
    Owner Japanese Partnership
    Interest 55
    Home office Japan
    Year 1991
  • Type Owner
    Owner Inco.
    Interest 45
    Home office Canada
    Year 1991

Production statistics

  • Year 1990
    Description Below Capacity 20000 Mt Nio/ Year
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Nickel Nickel 20000mt
  • Year 1991
    Description Projected 27000 Mt Nio/ Year
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Nickel Nickel 27000mt

Comments on the production information

  • ACCORDING TO A PRIVATE SOURCE, MATSUZAKA REFINERY PRODUCES BYPRODUCT SULFURIC ACID AT 20,000 MT/YEAR.

Comments on other economic factors

  • SOURCE STATES THAT MATSUZAKA ALSO PRODUCES NICKEL OXIDE (97%), BUT LISTS NO PERCENTAGE OF OUTPUT OR TONNAGES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NICKDATA, INC. A COMPREHENSIVE NICKEL INDUSTRY COST DATABASE

  • Deposit

    AND COSTING PROGRAM. 1991. ILMAR J. MARTENS,

  • Deposit

    THOMAS F. TORRIES.

  • Deposit

    BUREAU OF MINES INFORMATIONAL CIRCULAR / 1991. AVAILABILITY

  • Deposit

    OF PRIMARY NICKEL IN MARKET ECONOMY COUNTRIES.

  • Deposit

    A MINERALS AVAILABILITY APPRAISAL. DONALD I. BLEIWAS.

  • Deposit

    CRU - QUARTERLY MARKET SERVICE. NICKEL. APRIL, 1991.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 24-SEP-1991 Bleiwas, Donald U.S. Bureau of Mines

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.