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Inco Combined Sudbury Nickel Oper

Plant in Ontario, Canada with commodity 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. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10181501
MAS/MILS ID 1220400131
Record type Site
Current site name Inco Combined Sudbury Nickel Oper
Alternate or previous names Combined Innco Nickel

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Town
Geographic coordinates: -84.99991, 50.00002 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 10000(meters)

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

Nearby scientific data

Town (1) -84.99991, 50.00002
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Plant
Commodity type Metallic
Significant Yes
Discovery year 1883
Mining method Combined Methods
Year of first production 1902
Plant type Beneficiation (Mill)
Plant subcategory Flotation
Milling method Flotation

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Inco Ltd.
    Interest 100
    Home office Canada
    Year 1991

Production statistics

  • Year 1990
    Description Inco Canada Ops; Ni Metal And Oxide 109200 Tonnes Ni Contained
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Nickel Nickel 109200mt

Comments on the production information

  • 14% CU CLIFF PRODUCT IS 75% NI SINTER. FINAL DESTINATIONS IN % OF CU CLIFF 65% MATTE ARE: NICKEL OXIDE TO CLYDACH CARBONYL REF. = 23%. TO CU CLIFF REF. = 44%. TO KOREA ZINC = 11%. TO TAIWAN NICKEL = 10%.

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1993
    Demonstrated 43200000mt ore
    Total resources 43200000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Nickel Ni 1.63 wt-pct Nickel Major 1993

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • REPRESENTS COMBINED NICKEL OPERATIONS COMPANY HEADQUARTERS WERE VISITED. CAPACITY WAS NOT CHANGED FROM THE ORIGINAL ENTRY.
  • RESERVE INFORMATION DERIVED FROM 1990 10K AND COMPANY OFFICIALS. RESOURCE IS PROBABLY TEN TIMES THE RESERVE ESTIMATE

Comments on other economic factors

  • THERE ARE 1 OPEN PIT AND 12 UNDERGROUND MINES OPERATING IN 1991. THESE ARE: CU CLIFF SOUTH, NORTH, CREAN HILL, CREIGHTON, FROOD, GARSON-OFFSETS, LEVACK, LITTLE STOBIE, LOWER COLEMAN, MCCREEDY WEST, STOBIE, SHEBANDOWAN, AND WHISTLE OPEN PIT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Production

    INCO OPERATIONS FLOWSHEET. 1984.

  • Production

    EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY OF NICKEL & COBALT. 1988. EDITED BY

  • Production

    G.P. TYROLER AND C.A. LANDOLT. "INCO'S COPPER CLIFF

  • Production

    NICKEL REFINERY". BY WISEMAN, BALE, CHAPMAN, AND

  • Production

    MARTIN. PP. 373 - 390.

  • Deposit

    INCO MINING AND DISCOVERY. PUBLIC AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT,

  • Deposit

    ONTARIO DIVISION. INCO LTD.

  • Reserve-Resource

    AME MINERAL ECONOMICS QUARTERLY MINE ANALYSIS, JUNE, 1993,

  • Reserve-Resource

    P. 40.

  • Deposit

    NICKDATA, INC. A COMPREHENSIVE NICKEL INDUSTRY COST DATABASE

  • Deposit

    AND COSTING PROGRAM. 1991. ILMAR J. MARTENS,

  • Deposit

    THOMAS F. TORRIES.

  • Deposit

    PRODUCTION UNITS 1-5.

  • Deposit

    BUREAU OF MINES INFORMATION CIRCULAR. 1991.

  • Deposit

    AVAILABILITY OF PRIMARY NICKEL IN MARKET-ECONOMY

  • Deposit

    COUNTRIES. A MINERALS AVAILABILITY APPRAISAL.

  • Deposit

    DONALD I. BLEIWAS.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit COPPER CLIFF MINE WAS OPERATING PRIOR TO 1902, WHEN INCO WAS FORMED FROM THE CANADIAN COPPER COMPANY. SUDBURY WAS THEN ONLY A COPPER OPERATION.

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:

  • Inco Ltd. — acquired by Subsidiary of Vale (2007)
    International Nickel Company; acquired by Brazilian miner Vale in 2007 for ~US$18 B.

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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