The Nickel Industry: With Special Reference to the Sudbury Region, Ontario
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The Nickel Industry: With Special Reference to the Sudbury Region, OntarioEntry/Object ID
2022.115.01Tags
Mining History, Mining Industry, Nickel Mining, Sudbury, Ontario, The Canadian Copper Company, International Nickel Company of Canada (INCO), Mond Nickel MineScope and Content
Book discussing the development of the nickel industry in the Sudbury area.Context
The book discusses the development and creation of the nickel industry in the Sudbury area as well as the mining corporations that were created as a result of the industry. It covers a history from roughly the 1890s until 1913. The book is broken down into chapters, they are as follows: 1. Introduction 2. Position and Means of Communication 3. Physiography of the nickel region 4. Outline of the general geology: The Keewatin, Grenville series, Sudbury series, Basic eruptives of the Sudbury series, Acid eruptives of the Sudbury series, The Laurentian, The lower Huronian, The upper Huronian, The norite-micropegmatite sheet, Later dykes, Historical sketch of the development of the Sudbury nickel region, The Canadian Copper Company, H. H. Vivian and Company, Dominion Mining Company, Mond Nickel Company, Other mining and smelting operations, The Dominion Nickel Copper Company 5. Description of the Sudbury Nickel Ores: Pyrrhotite, Pyrite, Marcasite, Pentlandite, Other nickel minerals: polydymite millerite gersdorffite ad nickelite, Chalcopyrite and other copper minerals, Magnetite and other oxides, Later metallic minerals, Natural gas, Gossan minerals, Minerals of the precious metals, Sperrylite 6. Source of the Ores 7. Rocks associated with the ores: Transition from norite to micropegmatite 8. Types of ore deposits: Marginal deposits, Offset deposits 9. Individual deposits of the Sudbury nickel region: The Sultana mine, The Chicago mine, Chicago to Victoria mine, Victoria mine, Vermillion mine, The Worthington offset, The Crean Hill mine, From Crean Hill to Gertrude mine, Gertrude mine, The Creighton mine, North Star mine, The Copper Cliff offset, Copper Cliff mine Other mines on the offset, Evans mine, Elsie mine, Murray mine, Murray mine to Mt. Nickel, The Frood-Stobie offset, Frood or No. 3 mine, Stobie Mine, Blezard mine, From Blezard to Garson Mine, Garson mine 10. The Eastern Nickel Range: The Blue Lake Region, The Whistle mine 11. The Northern Range: The Foy offset, The Levack and Strathcona mines, Nickel range in Trail 12. The Acid Edge of the Nickel Eruptive: Southern range, Eastern and Northern ranges 13. Economic minerals of the Interior Basin 14. Quartz Mines 15. Composition of the Sudbury Nickel Eruptive: Proportions of metals in the Sudbury Ores 16. The Precious Metals 17. Other Canadian Nickel Deposits: Nickel ores of the Cobalt Region, The Alexo mine 18. Nickel Deposits in the United States 19. Nickeliferous iron ore in Cuba 20. Nickel Ores in Europe: Norwegian Mines, Other European deposits 21. Nickel Ores of New Caledonia 22. Nickel Ores of Cape Colony 23. Statistics of nickel production: Sudbury District, New Caledonia 24. Methods for Prospecting an Exploration Use of the diamond drill 25. Methods of Mining 26. Mechanical Treatment of Sudbury Ores: Magnetic seperation, hand picking 27. Metallurgical Processes: Roasting the ore, Smelting plant: Copper Cliff, Smelting in blast furnaces, Recent improvements at Copper Cliff, Reverberatory furnace 28. This Power Plant, Canadian Copper Co 29. Refining Processes of the Orford and Mond Companies 30. Methods at Evje and Kristiansand 31. Treatment of New Caledonian ores 32. Uses of Nickel: Mond metalCollection
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