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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 …

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’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’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…

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…

Thayer Lindsley, a lanky New Englander whose second home became Canada, founded Falconbridge Nickel Mines (and ushered into existence a host of others, most prominent among them Sherritt Gordon Mines …

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….

Special shareholders’ meetings will be held in early June to consider a proposal to amalgamate Royal Oak Resources (TSE) and four associated companies into a new, Vancouver-based intermediate gold pro…

London Metal Exchange Spot closing prices in $US per tonne, except copper and lead (pounds sterling per tonne) Date April 23 April 22 April 19 April 18 April 17 Copper 1451-1453 1489-1491 1458-1460 14…

N.Y. Commodity Exchange Week’s High Low Close Change COPPER (HG) (in UScl per lb.) Apr 110.10 108.40 108.60 +0.45 May 110.50 108.50 108.70 +0.15 Jun 109.50 108.50 108.50 +0.45 SILVER (in UScl per oz.)…

Ron Shipes, president of Arizona-based Arimetco International (TSE), recently revealed the latest stage in his plan to build Arimetco into a significant player in the North American copper industry. W…