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Working interest is the ownership interest that would require the participation in production expenses. [3] Mineral interest is the percentage of real property interest after severance of oil and gas from surface rights. [4] Tract participation factor is the number of lease acres of the lessor divided by total number of acres. [5]
Mineral resource estimation is used to determine and define the ore tonnage and grade of a geological deposit, from the developed block model.There are different estimation methods used for different scenarios dependent upon the ore boundaries, geological deposit geometry, grade variability and the amount of time and money available.
Silver Crater Mine, previously known as the Basin Deposit, [1] is an abandoned mine in Cardiff, Ontario. It has produced some of the world's most notable betafite crystals. The mine has been worked since the late 19th-century, with industrial mining of mica starting in 1927. Uranium was sought in the 1950s and the mine has been abandoned since ...
The Ring of Fire is a vast, mineral-rich region located in the remote James Bay Lowlands of Northern Ontario, Canada. [1] Spanning approximately 5,000 square kilometres (1,900 sq mi), the area is rich in chromite, nickel, copper, platinum group elements, gold, zinc, and other valuable minerals.
Ontario, owing to its size, has diverse geology that varies in structure, age, and lithology. About 61% of the province is covered by the Canadian Shield, mostly with Precambrian rock. [10] These rocks contain large mineral deposits that are vital to the economy of northern Ontario. The shield can further be divided into three sections.
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.
In 1672, French settlers in Cape Breton Island detected coal deposits. [2] Matonabbee and Samuel Hearne sought after copper in the Hudson Bay region in the 1770s. [1] The first truly industrial mining operation in what is now Canada was an iron mine at Forges du Saint-Maurice near Trois-Rivières in Quebec, which remained a going concern from ...
The flagship property is the Windfall Lake Gold Deposit, in the Urban-Barry Greenstone Belt of the Abitibi sub-province of the Superior Province. Osisko Mining - Malartic, Quebec (100% owned) and Atikokan, Ontario (Duparquet 50% interest was abandoned in 2011). Agnico Eagle - Currently holds the largest land package in the Kirkland Lake area.