The concentrate is dewatered, mixed with custom concentrate feed and high-grade silica flux and conveyed to the smelter. The rock tailings are used for mine backfill, building dams in the Tailings area, or disposed of in the Copper Cliff tailings impoundment area.
Concentrate produced from the flotation process is used to generate a high copper concentrate by depressing the pentlandite, thus allowing the copper to float. The concentrate is then filtered to produce a filter cak Production :. Reserves at December 31, Data Access UserName is required. Password is required.
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Having the option to potentially outsource operations such as refining, smelting and milling will not only save costs but may accelerate our ability to bring metals to markets.
The Project is at the Pre-Feasibility stage and the study is slated for completion on or before the end of the first half of The surface facilities in Sudbury have extra capacity to take concentrates and PGM-containing concentrates are generally highly sought after due to recent PGM metal prices. To date, River Valley has been evaluated as an open pit mining operation that would produce a bulk concentrate.
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I learned a lot! As well, we surveyed in the lines to direct miners on direction and limits of the various blasted excavations. It was a great job!
I lived in a bunkhouse on Copper Rd. There were a couple of my classmates also living there and we hung out together when not working. Playing rugby for the Sudbury Exiles Rugby Club was a great diversion and we travelled around playing rugby and drinking beer all summer, when not working.
That particular summer, there was a strike at INCO. INCO was famous for fractious labour relations and strikes were often a long drawn out, violent, seething exercise.
The next day, the strike was on and we were locked in! Only safe way in and out of the mine was by helicopter. A sleeping facility was set up at Coleman Mine, also behind the picket line and a cookhouse was set up at Levack Mine. During the time, the men outside the picket line threw Molotov cocktails on the lumber yard. A LOT of timber was used underground at that time! Thankfully, the fire was extinguished quickly. There was a particularly ugly incident where somebody, presumably a union guy, shot at one of the helicopters with a rifle!
The union men guarded each gateway to the property to ensure none of us management people snuck in or out to visit wives and girlfriends. The strike only lasted 10 days or so. I was in for five days and flown out —my first ever helicopter ride! I learned a lot about management-labour relations during and after that strike.
After all of that, all of the union guys got raises immediately after the strike was over AND management did, as well, to match the union wages. Anyway, it was a great summer of working, good pay despite no raise , rugby, beer drinking and freedom from school. As my last year at the Haileybury School of Mines advanced, I started having job interviews with various mining companies.
It was a great time to graduate with multiple jobs opportunities for us all. I enjoyed having job interviews, especially the free lunches and, oft-times, beers that seemed to go with job interviews. I interviewed with INCO and several other mining companies.
One opportunity was different. I wanted to work at a MINE! I decided to go to the interview because some free food and beer could be a partial result. The fellow that interviewed me, Bob Murchie, was an unorthodox interviewer, at least in my very short interviewing experience. I went into the room and here was a guy with his feet up on the table lighting up a cigar! That made me think.
Every mine… mineral collecting… Work experience… Mineral Collecting… technical knowledge… Mineral collecting… Sounded pretty good! I thought it was a terrible interview though! A few days later they sent me a telegram saying they would send me a plane ticket to Montreal for a second interview!
Sure enough the ticket arrived in the mail and I flew to Montreal and had REAL interviews with multiple technical managers, many of whom became great friends in later years.
A few weeks later, a job offer arrived by telegram. That was pretty good money for a young fellow in those days. I wrote letters to the mining companies that had offered me jobs, that I could not accept their offers.
Upon graduation, I took the bus to Sudbury and was presented with a company car and an expense account. Pinch me! I shared an office with an older Haileybury grad and began my training which seemed to never end. I was always learning. Sudbury, at that time, was a hotbed of technological innovation, mostly because of INCO and its suppliers.
Falconbridge was much more conservative and stodgy. INCO was arrogant but willing to try almost anything to reduce costs, if you could come up with a good idea. I worked underground at every mine of both INCO and Falconbridge learning the ropes, introducing new explosives and initiation systems and mining methods. It was great! INCO was one of the first big companies to decide that safety fuse was, in fact, obsolete, both safety and efficiency-wise, so we introduced the brand new NONEL initiation system to all of its mines.
We developed new capacitor discharge blasting machines that we sold to many of the mines, or helped them modernize their central blasting systems. We developed shaped charges to make secondary blasting in drawpoints safer and better. It was the perfect time to be an explosives technical service representative in Sudbury. It was a happening place at the time with many new, young professionals starting their careers and I made many friends.
I was only based in Sudbury for a couple of years before being moved from coast to coast by CIL. Eventually, I went to head office and through a series of promotions, ended up being a senior manager in technical, product management and business development roles.
For years, I managed the Technical Service Group, a crack group of explosives technical engineers and technologists who could solve any mining, construction, seismic or demolition problem. That meant I was able to travel the USA and, then, the world acquiring or disseminating technical knowledge and visiting famous mines!
Every one of those positions drew me back to Sudbury. There were always engineering projects, construction projects, expansions and studies to be done for INCO and Falconbridge and they contracted most of it out. I was able to count on old friends to put on fantastic tours for the engineering students. I hope this will continue for many years yet! I was born in Sudbury in and grew up there. My father worked as a square set stope miner at the 5 shaft of the Falconbridge mine in the town of Falconbridge.
Due to poor road maintenance and conditions at the time, our family moved to the town of Dowling to facilitate traveling to work at the mine. The best past times I had were fishing, hunting, and generally hiking in the surrounding mountains to pass the time. One day, one of my uncles purchased a car from a man living in River Valley. In the trunk, he discovered two very nice almandine garnets from the River Valley occurrence and gave them to me as a gift.
Shortly after this, my father brought home a nice galena cube from the mine to add to my collection. Well now I was hooked! I started collecting micro crystals of galena, sphalerite, calcite, dolomite and pyrite crystals from the Errington and Vermillion mines that were easy enough to get to with my bicycle from my home.
Well it was time to leave home when I turned 18 and as tradition in the Nickel District goes, everyone wished to get hired at the mines with the hope of a long-lasting career. I was hired in by Falconbridge Ltd. I was able to collect some nice minerals from the Hardy mine open pit at this time to add to my collection. Whenever I was on the Strathcona mine site I would visit the main geology office and sweet talk some of the geologists to donate samples for my collection.
Several of the geologists I made friends with encouraged me to think about changing careers and becoming a geologist for the company. Working with some of the best geologists in the country allowed me to learn my rocks and minerals very well and foster a deeper understanding of the geology and orebodies of Ontario. With a diploma in hand, Falconbridge Ltd.
I was able to work at and collect minerals from Lockerby, Fraser and Lindsley mines. Several layoffs occurred in this period and I quickly organized myself to work private contracts for various companies around the provinces of Ontario and Quebec.
I was able to collect many great minerals in the Cobalt silver district and the gold districts in northern Ontario and Quebec. From to , Falconbridge hired me again as a Project Geologist. My duties were to discover or delineate orebodies in the Sudbury Igneous Complex. In this period of my career, I obtained my B.
As a Project Geologist, I was able to work at all the mines in the district and could once again collect minerals from surface dumps and underground at the active mines. Another downturn occurred and I was de-hired by Falconbridge Ltd. In I updated my consulting business and got busy completing geology exploration contracts for Sudbury District mining companies such as Wallbridge Mining Co.
This gave me the opportunity to collect minerals from localities in Chile and Africa. KGHM de-hired me in and I am presently retired as a professional geologist.
At the present time, my home is filled with mineral specimens from around the world. It all started with those two garnets and has ended in 5, specimens collected over a span of 60 years.
Just so that you can visualize them, Here are a few more random photos of mines and scenes from around Sudbury. David K. Figure 2 Levack Mine Headframe, Figure 3 The Frood Mine dominates the eastern view of Sudbury.
Figure 5 Sudbury Ore Roasting Yard; a technique used until Figure 8 Geological Map of the Sudbury Basin. Figure 9 Evolution of the Sudbury Impact Crater. Figure 10 Sudbury Breccia or Pseudotachylite, R. Enter your email below to subscribe to the Geoscience Currents channel. Skip to main content. Geoscience Currents. Presentations Reports. Subscribe to Geoscience Currents. Related Geoscience Currents. November 1, GIT certification is required in some states and optional in others; and it demonstrates a level of technical Does your department have a Licensure Qualifying Program?
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