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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. For practical purposes stone, marble and other quarries may be included in this list.
Today, all of the producers doing surface mining, such as Syncrude Canada, Suncor Energy and Albian Sands Energy etc., use a variation of the Clark Hot Water Extraction (CHWE) process. In this process, the ores are mined using open-pit mining technology. The mined ore is then crushed for size reduction.
Mount Polley mine is a Canadian gold and copper mine located in British Columbia near the towns of Williams Lake and Likely. It consists of two open-pit sites with an underground mining component and is owned and operated by the Mount Polley Mining Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Imperial Metals. In 2013, the mine produced an output ...
The mine was opened by the Cyprus Anvil Mining Corporation in 1969, which was formed to mine the deposit. [19] From the late 1960s until 1982 the mine was one of the largest lead-zinc mines in the world. At one time it was the largest open-pit mine in the world. During its history, 320 million tonnes of waste rock was removed to reach the ore.
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 ...
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: 48.373375°N 58.451512°W St. George's Bay: Galen Gypsum Mines Ltd. 2009 to 2018 [3] Open-pit mine Duck Pond mine: Copper, zinc, silver, gold
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.