Location Greater Sudbury Products Nickel Company Vale Limited Opened 1901 | Country Canada Website vale.com Province Ontario | |
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Type Underground, originally open pit | ||
Creighton mine memories
Creighton Mine is an underground nickel mine, owned and operated by Vale (formerly known as INCO) in the city of Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. It is currently the deepest nickel mine in Canada.
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HistoryEdit
Production at Creighton Mine began in 1901, and as of August 2004 there was an estimated 20 years of reserves left.
ProductionEdit
In 2005 the mine produced an average of 3,755 tons per day on a 6 days per week schedule. Ore is processed off site at Vale's Clarabelle Mill.
Creighton Deepening ProjectEdit
Two projects are underway to allow deeper mining at Creigton Mine. The first is an $8-million, four-year diamond drill exploration program that will allow for ore tonnage to be defined down to the 10,000-foot (3,000 m) level. The second is a $48-million expansion project that will establish production ore at the 7,810-foot (2,380 m) level and bring 1.8 million tons of high-grade ore into production from 2006–2011.
SNOLABEdit
Creighton Mine's 6,800-foot (2,100 m) level is the home of the world's deepest underground physics laboratory. Originally excavated for the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO), it has been expanded into a general-purpose facility called SNOLAB.