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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 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.
[citation needed] Canada's second mine, first opened in January 2003, is one of the largest open pit diamond mines in the world (according to production) and currently produces around 8 million carats annually. [citation needed] The mine is currently in a transitional shift from open pit mining to underground mining. [13]
This is a list of mines in the Canadian province of Quebec and includes both operating and closed ... Lac d'Amiante du Canada: Asbestos: Ophiolite: Estrie : 1958-2012 ...
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.
Mining of the original Bethlehem Copper pits ceased in 1982. The Bethlehem concentrator continued to operate on ore from the Valley Copper deposit until June 1989. Production on the Valley Copper mine, now the largest mine and most noticeable feature, began in January 1983. [5] For fifty years the ore was dug using shovels and open pit methods ...
In Alberta, the industry’s mark on the landscape is profound: over an area larger than New York City, oil companies have carved chunks of earth into open-pit mines plunging hundreds of feet deep ...
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 ...