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East Pit of Sherman Mine in Temagami, Ontario, Canada. Adams Mine – abandoned mine in Kirkland Lake, Ontario; Athabasca oil sands – second largest proven petroleum reserve in the world as of 2013, located in northern Alberta along the Athabasca river. Barkerville Mine - Gold Mine near Wells, British Columbia
The following lists of mines in Canada are subsidiaries to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and future mines in the country and is organised by the primary mineral output and province.
Open-pit mining, also known as open-cast or open-cut mining and in larger contexts mega-mining, [1] is a surface mining technique that extracts rock or minerals from the earth. Open-pit mines are used when deposits of commercially useful ore or rocks are found near the surface where the overburden is relatively thin. In contrast, deeper mineral ...
In November 2009, Joseph Carrabba, Cliffs' president and CEO, claimed the "world-class deposits" had the "potential to support an open pit mine producing 1 to 2 million tonnes per year for more than thirty years". Carrabba announced that the ore would be "further processed into 400,000–800,000 tonnes of ferrochrome". [15]
Gilbert (pop. 1,799) is the location of Lake Ore-be-gone, an artificial lake created by flooding three open-pit iron ore mines. Hibbing (pop. 16,361) is the largest city by area in the state of Minnesota. It is home to the Hull–Rust–Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine, one of the world's largest open pit iron mines.
Construction of the mine began in February 2006 which created 3200 positions; mining and operations will create around 400 permanent positions. The Victor Mine is an open-pit mine, with a processing plant, workshops, and an airstrip located on site. By 2013–2014 royalties collected from De Beers Victor Mine amounted to $226. At that time De ...
Bell Island Mine Iron ore Wabana: 1895–1966 Underground Mine Buchans Mine Zinc, copper, lead, silver, gold Buchans: AND Co., Asarco 1906–1911, 1926–1984 Underground mine, open pit mine Rambler Copper 49°57'14.57"N 56°4'5.049"W Ming's Bight Rambler Metals & Mining Canada 2005 to present Underground mine Coal Brook Gypsum Deposit [2] Gypsum
Sherman Mine is a closed open pit mine in Temagami, Ontario, Canada.It was a major producer of iron ore, starting production in 1968 and closing in 1990.Sherman was the largest open pit mine in Temagami, consisting of seven open pits known as the East Pit, South Pit, North Pit, West Pit and the Turtle Pits.