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Fraser Mine

Producer in Ontario, Canada with commodities Nickel, Copper, PGE, Gold, Silver, Cobalt, Selenium, Tellurium
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  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. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10024575
MRDS ID ISM0299
Record type Site
Current site name Fraser Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.35118, 46.66527 (WGS84)
Relative position OREBODY; 600 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

Comments on the commodity information

  • PLATINUM-GROUP ELEMENTS

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Sudbury Sublayer
    Rock description Sudbury Sublayer
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.35118, 46.66527
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Depth to top 300M

Comments on the geologic information

  • ; PYTT + PNLD + CLCP. PLATINUM GROUP MINERALS: NO INFORMATION. PROBABLY SIMILAR TO THOSE REPORTED FOR INCO SUDBURY MINES UNDER CREIGHTON.; NO PUBLISHED GEOLOGICAL INFORMATION. THE DEPOSIT MAY CONSIST OF COPPER-RICH FOOTWALL VEINS (SIMILAR TO THOSE AT THE STRATHCONA MINE) JUDGING BY THE PUBLISHED PRE-PRODUCTION GRADE (0.52% NI, 8.9% CU).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1970
Year of first production 1981
Year of last production 1981

Mining district

District name Sudbury Mining Division; Sudbury District

Ownership information

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

Comments on development

  • NON-GEOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS ON DEVELOPMENT OR EXPANSION IN 1-5 YRS. ().

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC MINERALS INVENTORY DATA BASE

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS RECORD WAS COMPILED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC MINERALS INVENTORY. THE DATA WERE USED IN PREPARATION OF THE USGS CIRCULAR 930 SERIES OF REPORTS. MINERAL RESOURCE CATEGORIES AND CODES HEREIN ARE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM RECOMMENDED BY THE UNITED NATIONS GROUP OF EXPERTS ON DEFINITIONS AND TERMINOLOGY FOR MINERAL RESOURCES. (SEE NATIONAL RESOURCES FORUM, V. 4, NO. 3, P. 307-313.). UNDERGROUND 40 M INTERMEDIATE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1981 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.

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