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Combined Falconbridge Ni Operations

Producer in Ontario, Canada with commodities Cobalt, Copper, Nickel
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  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. Reserves and resources
  11. Workings at the site
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10158001
MAS/MILS ID 1220400130
Record type Site
Current site name Combined Falconbridge Ni Operations
Alternate or previous names Combined Falconbridge

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -84.99991, 50.00002 (WGS84)

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
Cobalt Critical Primary
Copper Primary
Nickel Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -84.99991, 50.00002
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant Yes
Mining method Combined Methods
Milling method Flotation

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Noranda
    Interest 50
    Home office Canada
    Year 1991
  • Type Owner
    Owner Trelleborg
    Interest 50
    Home office Sweden
    Year 1991
  • Type Operator
    Owner Falconbridge Ltd.
    Year 1991

Comments on the ownership information

  • OWNERSHIP OF FALCONBRIDGE LTD. IS 50% NORANDA MINES LTD. AND 50% TRELLEBORG AB. FALCONBRIDGE LTD PRODUCED 57.8 KMT NI,36.5KMT CU AND1.8KMT CO IN 1990.

Production statistics

  • Year 1990
    Description Copper Production Falconbridge 31700 Tonnes Cu Contained
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Copper Copper 31199.14mt
  • Year 1990
    Description Cobalt Production Falconbridge 800 Tonnes Co Contained
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Cobalt Cobalt 787.36mt
  • Year 1990
    Description Nickel Production Falconbridge 33600 Tonnes Ni Contained
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Nickel Nickel 33069.12mt

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1995
    Measured 14532000mt ore
    Indicated 11866000mt ore
    Demonstrated 26398000mt ore
    Total resources 26398000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Nickel Ni 1.72 wt-pct Nickel Major 1995
    Copper Cu 1.63 wt-pct Copper Major 1995
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1995
    Inferred 13753000mt ore
    Total resources 13753000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Nickel Ni 1.24 wt-pct Nickel Major 1995
    Copper Cu 1.22 wt-pct Copper Major 1995

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • CMH-91-92 STATES RESERVES FOR LINDLEY AT 6.4MMT @ 1.58%NI AND RAGLAN AT 16.8 MMT 3.13 NI AND .88 CU
  • REPRESENTS COMBINED FALCONBRIDGE OPERATIONS IN SUDBURY, ONTARIO. COMPANY HEADQUARTERS. VERY ACTIVE EXPLORATION WILL DEVELOP CRAIG MINE FOR PROD OF 20,000 MT NI AND 9,000 MT OF CU IN 1993. EXPANSION AND ADDITIONAL DEV. AT LINDLSEY AFTER MAJOR NEW OREBODIES WERE DISC. PRODUCTION FROM NEW AREA IN 1991
  • RESERVE ESTIMATES ARE FOR ABOUT 7-10 YEARS. RESOURCE ESTIMATE IS NOT PUB, BUT PROBABLY AT LEAST 3 TIMES LARGER (COMPANY SOURCE)

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Field Value
    MAS Development Schedule # 1
    Mining Record # 1
    Status of Mining Method ESTIMATE
    Percent Waste Rock 23
    Capacity 14390
    Capacity Units MT ORE/DAY
    Operating Days per Year 250
    Operating Shifts per Day 2
    Year of Information 1991

Comments on other economic factors

  • MINES OPERATING IN 1991 ARE ONAPING, LOCKERBY, FRASER AND STRATHCONA. CRAIG MINE IS TO START PRODUCTION BY 1994.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Reserve-Resource

    NICKDATA, INC. A COMPREHENSIVE NICKEL INDUSTRY COST DATABASE

  • Reserve-Resource

    AND COSTING PROGRAM. 1991. ILMAR J. MARTENS,

  • Reserve-Resource

    THOMAS F. TORRIES.

  • Reserve-Resource

    FALCONBRIDGE LTD., 1994 ANNUAL REPORT, P.4.

  • Deposit

    BUREAU OF MINES INFORMATIONAL CIRCULAR. 1991. TABLE 7.

  • Deposit

    AVAILABILITY OF PRIMARY NICKEL IN MARKET - ECONOMY

  • Deposit

    COUNTRIES. A MINERALS AVAILABILITY APPRAISAL.

  • Deposit

    DONALD I. BLEIWAS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 23-JAN-1997 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:

  • 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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