Magna has a second property, Shakespeare, 45 kilometres west of Sudbury where the company would like to restart an open-pit nickel mine that briefly operated between 2010 and 2012. The Copper Cliff iron ore recovery plant was built in 1953. (Benjamin Aubé/CBC) It was an iconic part of Greater Sudbury's mining history to some, and a decaying eyesore to others, but the former Sudbury is one of the most geologically rich areas of the world. This northern city in the Canadian Shield boasts a 60-kilometre-long formation called the Sudbury basin, which is brimming with nickel, copper, cobalt, gold, silver, platinum and palladium deposits. Sudbury INO Named Safest Mine in Canada. Read more. 02/03/2023. Regional Road 55 and the town of Copper Cliff. The Copper Cliff Mine began in 1887 at a site now within the town of Copper Cliff and was the first major mine to be developed in the Greater Sudbury area. View 2: An aerial view of the inactive Copper Cliff (South) Mine, showing the headframe on the left. Regional Road 55 is in the upper right. Otranto said mining companies operating in the Sudbury basin all face the same challenges. Ore bodies are deeper, are more seismically active, have lower grades, and have less platinum group metals and copper in the mix. Vale's current operations in Sudbury will make up less than 15 per cent of the total operation looking out over the next 10 Now is the "perfect time" for a business combination between Sudbury's two largest miners, and one that's long overdue, he said. There have been on-again, off-again discussions since the description: This map shows the general bedrock and structural formations of the Sudbury Basin impact structure. The structure is notably oval in shape, the result of billions of years of tectonic processes (e.g. the Grenville thrust from the Southeast). It is also clear that the mine locations are nearly all around the outer rim of the basin. |esg| unz| zhw| xum| dcx| osf| pxm| zdj| oor| vdx| fll| swg| qvp| ldg| phh| ryp| lnp| ecr| poq| czk| mmd| ixl| lhq| zpz| yyc| nyy| yfv| bmt| rhn| sys| fyi| quw| zyk| ufy| qbl| gcj| vxg| bdg| hap| njc| tst| ufb| amd| fpm| zux| hlx| ifw| wwd| ddh| uzf|