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Completion of a national inventory and data base which identify and rate the mineral potential for economic development on 2,267 reserves across Canada has been announced by Indian Affairs and Norther…

It has always been the case at the Sudbury operations of Falconbridge that one mine bore the brunt of the production load. It was so in the beginning with the original mine at Falconbridge, where the …

Clean, bright, airy and spacious — not uncommon for office space, but for a flotation mill? Or more unusually still, a smelter? When it built its plant, Kidd Creek not only constructed a modern, func…

Falconbridge is spending $46 million this year on exploration. It will feed another $23 million (of capitalized funds) to the New Quebec Raglan project on the Ungava Peninsula. Most of the other money…

Falconbridge’s Kidd Creek copper-zinc-silver massive sulphide deposit is at the west end of the Archean-age Abitibi greenstone belt, 27 km north of Timmins, Ont. The orebody was discovered by diamond …

Falconbridge’s fifteenth mine in the Sudbury Basin and tenth on the North Rim, the Craig, was drilled during the 1970s, disclosing several zones of good grade nickel-copper ore. Shaft-sinking was star…

Falconbridge came into being because of the vision of two great men. The first was Thomas Alva Edison, the well-known inventor. The second was less well known, outside of mining, and far more private….

Falconbridge Gold Corp., a subsidiary of Falconbridge Ltd., produced 82,018 oz. of gold in 1990. Hoyle Pond, a high-grade producer near Timmins, contributed about 64,500 oz. to the total. The rest cam…

Despite the mining of 12 million tons of ore and the passage of nearly three years, there has been only one change in mining methods since we reported on Kidd Creek in the July, 1988 issue. On the oth…

Ever since the Falconbridge smelter was completely updated in the late 1970s — the original pelletizing and sintering plants were replaced with slurry-fed, fluidized-bed roasters; the blast furnaces …

It has been said that a picture is worth a thousand words, and A.J. Casson’s painting entitled “The Entrance to Baie Fine” has come to speak volumes about Falconbridge’s commitment to environmental pr…

The Ontario Mine Contractors Safety Association recently appointed the following to its 1991-1992 executive: (Back row, left to right) Dan Sweeney (MacIsaac Mining & Tunnelling), Ron Dion (J.S. Redpat…