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Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited was a Canadian mining company with operations in 18 countries, involved in the exploration, mining, processing, and marketing of metal and mineral products, including nickel, copper, cobalt, and platinum. In 1982 the company was renamed Falconbridge Limited.
Noranda Inc. was a mining and metallurgy company originally from Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada. It was listed on the TSX under the symbol NRD.LV. After eventually acquiring a large interest in rival mining company Falconbridge, it merged with that company in 2005. The combined company continued under the name Falconbridge Limited, ending the ...
The Kidd Metallurgical Site (or Met Site) is a metallurgical facility in Timmins, Ontario, Canada.It was built in 1980 and owned and operated by Xstrata Copper, following their 2006 takeover of Falconbridge Ltd. [1] [2] The site employs approximately 675 hourly employees.
Kidd Mine and Met Site collectively employ approximately 850 employees and contractors. In 2008, the company committed to investing $120 million to extend the production to 2017, and deepen the mine to 9,600 feet (2,900 m). [4] [9] The investment would add 3.4 million tonnes of ore into the mine plan.
Average CEO Pay is calculated using the last year a director sat on the board of each company. Stock returns do not include dividends. All directors refers to people who sat on the board of at least one Fortune 100 company between 2008 and 2012. The Pay Pals project relies on financial research conducted by the Center for Economic Policy and ...
Longyear subsequently merged with other small mining companies in the area to form the basis of what would ultimately become Falconbridge Ltd., although actual mining operations in the community did not begin until 1928, when Thayer Lindsley purchased the company for $2,500,000 and finally sunk the Falconbridge deposit's first mine shaft the ...
Investing in nickel is a bet on the prospects of the industrial and manufacturing sectors, both of which use lots of this base metal. Nickel investing, and investing in other base metals like zinc ...
The "Alternatives to Detention" program is tracking more than 25,000 migrants using ankle and wrist-worn monitors, which costs taxpayers an average of nearly $80,000 each day, according to ICE data.