The Copper Smelting Industries Of Canada Classic Reprint

Author : International Nickel Company of Canada
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ISBN 13 : 9781331946496
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book The Mining and Smelting Operations of the International Nickel Company of Canada, Limited written by International Nickel Company of Canada and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Mining and Smelting Operations of the International Nickel Company of Canada, Limited: Written by the Staff This introduction gives a sketch of the geology of the Creighton mine, which, at the present time, supplies all the ore used by the International Nickel Company of Canada. A few notes regarding the history of the mine are included. The mine is in the Sudbury district, Ontario, six miles west of Copper Cliff where the smelter and general offices of the Mining and Smelting Division are situated. Mining was begun in 1901 and production increased so rapidly that within a few years the Creighton mine was known as the greatest nickel deposit ever worked - and it still retains that distinction. The earliest records date back to 1856, when a surveyor noticed a strong deflection of the needle where his line passed close by the Creighton deposit. The locality was examined during the same season by Alexander Murray, a colleague of Sir William Logan, who in 1843 had founded the Geological Survey of Canada. Murray reported an "immense mass of magnetic trap" which he found to contain "magnetic iron ore and magnetic iron pyrites generally disseminated through the rock, the former in small grains; titaniferous iron was found in association with the magnetic ore, and a small quantity of nickel and copper with the pyrites." Murray's description evidently refers to the norite with disseminated sulphides and he probably did not see the gossan covering the orebody at the foot of the ridge. Twenty-seven years passed without further discoveries, but immediately after construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1883, many finds were made throughout the district and within a few years practically every deposit exposed at the surface had been staked. The Creighton deposit was re-discovered in the fall of 1886, and in 1887 a patent was issued to the Canadian Copper Company, which had been incorporated in January of the previous year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.