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Noranda was incorporated in 1922 as Noranda Mines under the leadership of James Y. Murdoch to exploit the Horne deposit, discovered by Edmond Henry Horne on mineral claims he staked in 1920 near Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec. [1] [2] Extraction of copper began on 17 December 1927. Although extraction was originally predicted to last for only three ...
The Horne claims, together with a number of other properties that had been acquired developed Noranda into an outstanding copper-gold producer. Noranda went on to employ more than 32,000 people, and have assets in excess of $11.8 billion. Edmund Henry Horne died on March 15, 1953, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. [3]
The smelter produces copper anodes of 99.1% purity. Its feedstock consists of both copper concentrate sourced from mines and shredded electronic waste. [5] Copper from electronic scrap comprises 15% of its production. [6] In addition to copper and other metals, the facility also produces sulfuric acid. Commissioned in 1989, production from the ...
Rouyn-Noranda (French pronunciation: [ʁwɛ̃ nɔʁɑ̃da]; 2021 population 42,313) is a city on Osisko Lake in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec, Canada.. The city of Rouyn-Noranda is a coextensive with a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) and census division (CD) of Quebec of the same name.
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The village was the site of some of the most successful gold mines in the Maritimes. [2] Edmond Henry Horne of Enfield, Nova Scotia, apprenticed here, learning his trade in the Renfrew gold mines before going on to establishing the great Noranda, a mining and metallurgy company originally from Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada.
Noranda may refer to: Noranda (mining company) Noranda Caldera, an Archean caldera in Canada; Noranda, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth; Noranda, Quebec, a former ...
This is a list of mines in the Canadian province of Quebec and includes both operating and ... Noranda mining: 1968-1999 Aldermac : Au, Ag, Cu: Abitibi-Témiscamingue ...