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This is a list of mines in the Northwest Territories and includes both operating and closed mines. ... NorZinc 10] Quartz Mountain mine: Gold ...
The North Zone mine is a large open pit mine located in the eastern part of Canada in York County, New Brunswick. North Zone represents one of the largest tin reserves in Canada having estimated reserves of 15.2 million tonnes of ore grading 0.38% tin , 0.86% zinc and 0.006% indium . [ 1 ]
In 2019, 552,400 tonnes of zinc, 71 percent of US mined zinc production, and 4.2 percent of world zinc production, came from Teck Resources' Red Dog mine, the world's most productive zinc mine, in northwest Alaska, near Kotzebue. [2] [3] [1] The mine opened in 1989. [4] The zinc is shipped as concentrate to foreign smelters.
A zinc mine is a mine that produces zinc minerals in ore as its primary product. Common co-products in zinc ores include minerals of lead and silver . Other mines may produce zinc minerals as a by-product of the production of ores containing more valuable minerals or metals, such as gold , silver or copper . [ 1 ]
This was the site of a large zinc mine which began operations in 1881 and closed in 1899, due to the changing market prices of zinc and high extraction costs. At its peak, the mine had 160 employees and was a major part of zinc exports from Norway.
Noranda had bought 19.9% of rival mining company Falconbridge in 1988, which was raised to a 58.4% stake in 2002. In 2004 China Minmetals was interested in buying Noranda, and completed negotiations with the Noranda board in October 2004 with a sale price of $6.7 billion, which caused the Canadian federal government to review its foreign investment policy.
Nordic Mining ASA is a Norwegian public limited company (allmennaksjeselskap), registered with VAT number NO 989 796 739 in the Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises. [4]
Nanisivik (Inuktitut: ᓇᓂᓯᕕᒃ, lit. 'the place where people find things'; / n ə ˈ n iː s ɪ v ɪ k /) is a now-abandoned company town which was built in 1975 to support the lead-zinc mining and mineral processing operations for the Nanisivik Mine, in production between 1976 and 2002.