John Solomon

Falconbridge, Kidd Creek Mines, Timmins, Ontario Falconbridge, Kidd Mine Copper D Mine, Timmins, ON - Detailed design and installation of the 96 Level Shaft Bottom Pump. Falconbridge Mines, PML 7350 Energy Management Meters Installation, Timmins, ON - Detailed design for the substation on the Smelter Feeders. Installation of two 60 hp …

REAGENT ADDITION EFFECTS IN ZINC ELECTROWINNING FROM KIDD CREEK

The individual and combined effects of antimony, sodium silicate, Dowfroth and Saponin on zinc deposition current efficiency and polarization and on the zinc deposit morphology and preferred orientation were determined in 6-h electrolysis tests conducted at 38°C and 500 A/m 2 current density. Platinum anodes and aluminum cathodes were …

Sudbury gears up for another 100 years

The First World War increased the strategic importance of nickel. Between the wars, in1928, Falconbridge Nickel Mines was incorporated. Its first mine, the Falconbridge mine, began production in 1930 and continued until reserves were exhausted in 1984. The merger. In mid-October, 2005, Inco launched a friendly takeover bid for Falconbridge.

Falco plans $700M mine investment (10/02)

Falconbridge Ltd. plans to invest more than $700 million in its nickel-copper Montcalm project near Timmins. Falconbridge is expected to make a production decision in October once the feasibility study and public consultations have been completed. The Montcalm site, once in full operation, is expected to employ 145 people.

Falconbridge Limited -- Company History

Founding of Falconbridge: 1928. Falconbridge took its name from the township of Falconbridge, Ontario, an area possessing large deposits of nickel. In 1928, businessman Thayer Lindsley paid $2.5 million for mining claims in the area and created Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited. The new company took immediate steps to work the claims, and ...

Indium

Indium is a soft, malleable metal with a brilliant lustre. The name indium originates from the indigo blue it shows in a spectroscope. Indium has a low melting point for metals and above its melting point it ignites burning with a violet flame. Bizarrely, the pure metal of indium is described as giving a high-pitched "cry" when bent.

Lead and zinc | Wat On Earth

Kidd Creek Mine (Falconbridge) at Timmins, Ontario, produces ore containing zinc, copper, lead, silver and cadmium. Uses of Zinc. Zinc is essential to a healthy life for humans and animal. It is necessary for the function of different enzymes. It is necessary for skin and bone growth. Above all, the body uses zinc to process food and …

FALCONBRIDGE LIMITED

Since January 1, 2002, Falconbridge's capital and project expenditures have totaled $1,177.8 million, including $341.9 million at the Kidd Creek Operations, $286.1 million at Collahuasi, $79.6 million at Raglan, $170.1 million at the Sudbury Operations, $76.5 at the Montcalm mine, $111.8 million on the Koniambo project, $46.5 million at ...

ENVISIONING OPPORTUNITIES

Kidd Creek Timmins, Canada. FALCONBRIDGE LIMITED 2002 ANNUAL REPORT / PAGE 1 CORPORATE PROFILE Falconbridge is a leading low-cost producer of nickel, copper, cobalt and platinum group metals. We are also a major recycler and processor of metal-bearing materials. Falconbridge is committed to improving shareholder returns

Ed Katic on LinkedIn: Well it finally happened. I'm retired. 37 …

37 years In mining and never a dull moment. It started in 1983 with Falconbridge Kidd Creek Mine, MTI, Tamrock / , Dumas Mining, BMI, Lakeshore Gold, DeBeers and finally Newmont Porcupine ...

Processing of indium: a review

Indium is recovered from Falconbridge Ltd.'s Kidd Creek Cu/Zn operations located in Ontario, Canada. Although the original plant design capacity was 30 metric tpa …

Ernie Hamilton

Falconbridge - Kidd Creek Mines - Texasgulf 1971 - 1993 22 years. Kidd Creek Metallurgical Complex - Timmins, Canada Process Engineer CEZinc 1969 - 1971 2 years. Valleyfield Canada Zinc Plant - Student Engineer Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co., Limited 1967 - 1968 1 year. Flin Flon Canada ...

ing behavior of surfactants for acid mist control in …

Falconbridge, Kidd Creek Division, operates a modern zinc plant at Timmins, Ontario, with an annual production capacity of about 145,000 tonnes of zinc slab via the conventional roast-leach-electrowinning extraction route. Through a series of changes and plant improvements, the acid mist conditions in the cellhouse have steadily improved …

Falconbridge's Kidd Copper Refinery

Falconbridge's Kidd Copper Refinery - Birthplace of the Kidd Process: An Update on the Refinery, and Latest Developments in the Kidd Process™

Falconbridge Limited | Encyclopedia

Falconbridge Limited 95 Wellington Street, Suite 1200Toronto, Ontario M5J 2V4CanadaTelephone: (416) 956-5700Fax: (416) 956 ... James outmaneuvered his ex-boss and mentor at Noranda, Alfred Powis, to acquire Kidd Creek Mines, a major silver, copper, zinc, and gold producer. The ore body, located near Timmons, Ontario, was discovered …

Xstrata Copper Launches Kidd Creek Expansion Project

Kidd Creek Puts the 514 to Work Kidd Creek currently operates 20 LHDs in production and three of those are the new 514s. The mine was expecting another machine to arrive during August 2008 and it plans to purchase three more in 2009. Of the six 514s currently operating in North America, Kidd Creek purchased the first three.

The hydrogeology of a tailings impoundment formed by …

The Kidd Creek mining and metallurgical operation, located near Timmins, Ontario, has been in operation since 1965, producing approximately 10,000 tonnes of tailings per day. Presently there are over 100 million tonnes of tailings stored in an impoundment that is constructed on top of 1 to 5 m of glacial-lacustrine silt and clay …

Inco and Falconbridge History – Page 2 – Republic of Mining

Kidd Creek Mine has been in production since 1966. It has processed 106.5 million tones grading 6.55% zinc, 2.31% copper, .24% lead and 94 grams silver per tonne. In addition, there is an estimated 32.2 million tones of ore in the proven, probable and possible reserves for a grand total of 138.7 million tones of base metals.

Commissioning and Operation Experience with a 400 …

ABSTRACT. A paper was presented at the ACG 2004 Paste and Thickened Tailings confer-ence in South Africa that described the design considerations for a 400 tph paste backfill system at Kidd Creek Mine. Since that time, the system has been con-structed and commissioned and has experienced enough run time for observa-tions and conclusions …

History of the deposit

About us. On November 8, 1963, diamond drill hole K55-1 launched the greatest ore body discovery in Timmins at the time—the Kidd Creek ore body which is recognized as one of the world's largest massive sulphide deposits. This discovery brought economic revitalization back to the town and a renewed optimism in the future of the City. Glencore ...

Releases from copper smelters and refineries and zinc

The annual mean concentrations of Pb in ambient air are elevated above regional background near all of the Canadian facilities (Table 2), although levels exceeding the WHO guideline occur near just a few of the facilities, including two of the copper smelters and the Falconbridge–Kidd Creek smelting and refining complex.

Falconbridge Limited

1982: Company name is changed to Falconbridge Limited. 1985: Kidd Creek Mines Limited is acquired. 1989: Falconbridge is acquired by Noranda Inc. and Trelleborg AB and taken private. 1994: Stock offering returns Falconbridge to public company status. Additional Details. Public Subsidiary of Noranda Inc. Incorporated: 1989; Employees: 6,234

CALLAGHAN CLAIMS AND NORTHAIR MINES OPTION

1987. Kidd Creek Mines Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Falconbridge Limited, owns the Callaghan claims and has the option to acquire the Northair Mines claims. The Callaghan claims are adjacent to and immediately west of the Northair Mines option. Kidd Creek Mines Ltd. is the operator. The project was initiated to explore the Gambier

Kidd Creek mine location map (Falconbridge, 2004).

Kidd Creek, located in Tim- mins, Ontario, Canada (Fig. 7), produces copper, zinc, indium, cadmium, silver and sulphuric acid. The deposit lies near the top of an overturned, …

Kidd Mine

Kidd Creek Mine is the deepest active base metal mine in the world, extending to a depth of 3 km below surface. The mine operators and engineers have met the ongoing challenges of mining sublevel open stopes at extreme depth through the utilisation of cutting edge technology, while expanding on a knowledge base encompassing 48 …

Kidd Creek mine location map (Falconbridge, 2004).

Kidd Creek, located in Tim- mins, Ontario, Canada (Fig. 7), produces copper, zinc, indium, cadmium, silver and sulphuric acid. The deposit lies near the top of an overturned, steeply dipping ...

Mend | A Geochemical, Hydrogeological and Hydrological

A geochemical, hydrogeological and hydrological study of the Kidd Creek tailings impoundment was initiated in August 1991 at the request of Falconbridge …

ing behavior of surfactants for acid mist control …

The Kidd Creek zinc cellhouse presently uses a combination of ing reagents (Dowfroth 250 at 1–4 ppm and saponin at 1–4 ppm) and ventilation system to …

The hydrogeology of a tailings impoundment formed by …

The Kidd Creek Cu–Zn sulfide mine is located near Timmins, Ontario. Mill tailings are thickened and deposited as a slurry in a circular impoundment with an area of approximately 1200 ha. Deposition of tailings as a thickened slurry from a central discharge ramp results in a conical-shaped tailings deposit with low perimeter dykes, a uniform …

Kidd Creek research turns waste into new products.

The indium is sold to the Indium Corporation of America which, in turn, markets the substance around the world. At press-time the metal fetched between $225 and $250 per kilogram on the open market. Under its supply agreement, Kidd Creek will eventually provide one million ounces per year when it reaches full capacity.

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Kidd Creek . The Kidd Creek copper/zinc orebody is located in Timmins, Ontario. The mine produced approximately 41,000 tonnes of copper and 88,000 tonnes of zinc in concentrate in 2004. The ore is transported by a Falconbridge-owned railway to Kidd's mineral processing facilities located 27 kilometres southeast of the minesite.

Model based analysis and control of a cementation process

At Falconbridge Kidd Creek division in Ontario, Canada, zinc is produced by an aqueous The scope of this work is to improve the present control electrowinning process. Before the electrowinning, the strategy in the cementation reactor, and hence reduce zinc solution is processed in a leach plant. The main the variations in the effluent …

National Instrument 43-101 Technical Report, Updated …

the Bell Creek Mine Property, Hoyle Township, Timmins, Ontario, Canada NTS: 42-A-11 Southeast Longitude: 81° 10' 41" West, Latitude: 48° 33' 45" North

Kidd Creek research turns waste into new products.

It has been a little more than a year since Falconbridge Ltd. began operating its indium plant at the Kidd Creek metallurgical site. According to Warren Holmes, vice-president …

Life cycle inventory analysis of the production of …

The Falconbridge Limited's Kidd Creek operation in Timmins, Ontario is another major producer of indium. The general flowsheet of indium recovery from zinc …

FALCONBRIDGE LIMITED

TECHNICAL GLOSSARY: 2: KEY ASSUMPTIONS FOR MINERAL RESERVE AND RESOURCE ESTIMATION: 4: CURRENCY: 4: METRIC/IMPERIAL CONVERSION TABLE: 4: FALCONBRIDGE …

The Underground Giant: Life in the Hard Rock …

Driving a ramp with a jumbo drill for the Kidd D Mine expansion at the 8,000-foot level of the Kidd Creek Mine, Timmins, Ontario. We walk out into the station, the air humming from the ventilation fan …

Case Studies in Applying Recoflo Ion-Exchange Technology

At the Kidd Creek copper refinery in Timmins, Canada, electrolyte control is important to ensure the consistent pro-duction of a high-quality cathode prod- ... was installed at the Falconbridge Kidd Creek plant in Timmins, Canada, in 1995. The APU operating cycle, which normally lasts about five minutes, is divided into an upstroke and downstroke

Volcanic Reconstruction of the Archean North …

Rhyolite, Kidd Creek Mine, Timmins, Ontario, Canada Michelle DeWolfe ... Falconbridge Limited Kidd Mining Division, PO Box 2002, Hwy 655, Timmins, Ontario, P4N 7K1 John Ayer

Ontario Mine Rescue Provincial Competitions 1950-2018 …

Technician: Jim Nault, Falconbridge Ltd., Kidd Creek Mine 2005 Provincial Competition Hamilton SCENARIO A mine foreman reported to the superintendent that a high water alarm had been triggered in the sump and 10minutes later smoke was reported coming out of the shaft; a fault alarm at the conveyor transfer has also gone off. ...