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The Big Nickel is a nine-metre (30 ft) replica of a 1951 Canadian nickel, located at the grounds of the Dynamic Earth science museum in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, and is the world's largest depiction of a coin. [1]
Dynamic Earth is an interactive earth sciences museum in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Owned-and-operated by Science North, Dynamic Earth builds on the city's mining heritage, focusing principally on geology and mining history exhibitions. The centre, which opened in 2003, is home to the Big Nickel, one of the city's most famous landmarks. [1]
Mine: Coordinates: Associated town: Owner: Dates: Comments: References: Birchtree Mine: Thompson: Vale Inco: 1965–Present In 2005 Birchtree mine was the recipient of the John T. Ryan Trophy for having achieving the lowest accident frequency of all Canadian metal mines.
In the early 2000s, the Big Nickel was temporarily moved to the grounds of Science North while its original and current site was refurbished into Dynamic Earth. Science North is an interactive science museum and Northern Ontario's most popular tourist attraction [147] with around 288,000 visitors per year (as of 2018). [148]
The Sudbury Basin (/ ˈ s ʌ d b ə r i /), also known as Sudbury Structure or the Sudbury Nickel Irruptive, is a major geological structure in Ontario, Canada. It is the third-largest known impact structure on Earth , as well as one of the oldest. [ 1 ]
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Vale's nickel mining and metals division is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It produces nickel, copper, cobalt , platinum , rhodium , ruthenium , iridium , gold, and silver. Prior to being purchased by CVRD (now Vale) in 2006, Inco was the world's second largest producer of nickel, and the third largest mining company outside South ...
Nickel Centre (1996 census population 13,017) was a town in Ontario, Canada, which existed from 1973 to 2000. It was created as part of the Regional Municipality of Sudbury . On January 1, 2001, the town and the Regional Municipality were dissolved and amalgamated into the city of Greater Sudbury .