1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

East Mine, Falconbridge Limited

Producer in Ontario, Canada with commodities Nickel, Copper, PGE, Gold, Silver, Cobalt, Selenium, Tellurium
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
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 10024572
MRDS ID ISM0296
Record type Site
Current site name East Mine, Falconbridge Limited
Alternate or previous names East Falconbridge

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.78255, 46.58193 (WGS84)
Relative position SHAFT; 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 Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Gabbro > Norite
    Rock unit name Sudbury Nickel Irruptive;Elsie Mountain Formation
    Rock description Sudbury Nickel Irruptive;Elsie Mountain Formation
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock > Mafic Metamorphic Rock > Meta-Basalt

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.78255, 46.58193
ListMap

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Penecontemporaneous Fault Cutting Basal Contact Of Irruptive.

Ore body information

  • Depth to top 30M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1949
Year of first production 1953
Year of last production 1978

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

    MANAGEMENT AND STAFF, FALCONBRIDGE NICKEL MINES LIMITED, 1959, THE FALCONBRIDGE STORY: PART I, GEOLOGY, CANADIAN MINING JOURNAL, V. 80, NO. 6, JUNE 1959, P. 116-127.

  • Deposit

    PYE, E.G., NALDRETT, A.J. AND GIBLIN, P.E., (EDS.), 1984, THE GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE SUDBURY STRUCTURE; ONTARIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, SPECIAL VOLUME 1, TORONTO, ONTARIO, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, 603 P.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1978 Swartendyk, Jan Mineral Policy Sector, Dept. of Energy Mines & Resources, Ottawa, 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:

  • Falconbridge Ltd. — now part of Subsidiary of Glencore (2013)
    Acquired by Xstrata in 2006; Xstrata merged into Glencore in 2013.

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.

Maps centered on this site