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QIT-Fer et Titane (QIT from its old name "Quebec Iron and Titanium") is a Canadian mining company located in Quebec.The company operates an ilmenite (titanium oxide ore) mine at Lac Allard [] (aka Lake Tio) [1] in northern Quebec, and in the southern Quebec municipality of Sorel-Tracy [2] operates refining facilities that produce titanium dioxide, pig iron, steel, and other metal products.
The Mary River Mine is an open-pit iron ore mine in the Mary River area of Baffin Island, Canada. [3]: 2 It is operated by the Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation (BIMC).As of 2021, the operation consists of an open-pit mine, two work camps for hundreds of workers, a tote road—from the Mary River site to Milne Inlet—and port infrastructure at Milne Inlet. [1]
Adams Mine is an abandoned open pit iron ore mine located in the Boston Township of the District of Timiskaming, 11 km (6.8 mi) south of Kirkland Lake in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is situated [ 1 ] on the Canadian Shield .
In 2019, Canada was the 4th largest producer of platinum; [4] the world's 5th largest producer of gold; [5] the world's 5th largest producer of nickel; [6] the world's 10th largest producer of copper; [7] the 8th largest world producer of iron ore; [8] the 4th largest world producer of titanium; [9] the world's largest producer of potash; [10] the 2nd largest world producer of niobium; [11 ...
TrentonWorks is an industrial manufacturing facility located in the town of Trenton, Nova Scotia, Canada.. This collection of factories on the bank of the East River of Pictou has witnessed a large variety of industrial operations, ranging from steel making (the first steel plant in Canada), rolling mills, forging, shipbuilding, munitions manufacturing, rivets and bolts, and most recently (and ...
Iron Ore Company of Canada (often abbreviated to IOC) (French: Compagnie Minière IOC) is a Canadian-based producer of iron ore. The company was founded in 1949 from a partnership of Canadian and American firms, the largest being the M.A. Hanna Company. It is now owned by a consortium that includes the Mitsubishi and Rio Tinto corporations.
The Canadian Shield has been divided up into seven areas based on differences in orogenic history. The Labrador portion of Newfoundland and Labrador forms the eastern region of the Canadian Shield, which hosts the entire Nain structural province, as well as some of the Superior, Churchill and Greenville provinces. [1]
But on the Mesabi and Cuyuna Ranges, iron mining operations evolved into enormous open pit mines, where steamshovels and other industrial machines could remove massive amounts of ore. "Large-scale commercial production of magnetite taconite ore on the Mesabi Range started in 1956 at the Peter Mitchell Mine near Babbitt, Minnesota." [2]