FALCO GOLD: A GLOBAL PLAYER
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…
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ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER: FALCONBRIDGE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
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…
EXPLORATION HIGHLIGHTED BY QUEBEC RAGLAN PROJECT
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 AT TIMMINS: THE GEOLOGY OF KIDD CREEK
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 AT TIMMINS: KIDD CREEK: DEVELOPMENT AT DEPTH
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…
SUPPLIERS’ NOTES (May 03, 1991)
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…
FALCONBRIDGE IN SUDBURY: THE FINE-TUNED SMELTER
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 …
A FALCO VETERAN AT THE HELM
Not long ago Frank Pickard, the new president of Falconbridge, calculated the odds were slim that he could land the presidency at the base metal mining company. The owners, Noranda Inc. and Trelleborg…
FALCONBRIDGE IN SUDBURY: SULPHUR REDUCTION AT STRATHCONA
Falconbridge’s first mill on the North Rim was the Hardy (1955), followed by the Fecunis (1957) and finally the Strathcona mill, commissioned in 1968. The earlier mills closed in 1972 and 1975 respect…
FALCONBRIDGE IN SUBBURY: SELECTIVE MINING AT CRAIG
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 IN SUDBURY: FRASER: STILL A CONTENDER
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 …
FALCONBRIDGE IN TIMMINS: KIDD CREEK: MILLING AND BEYOND
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…