Canadian Arrow Mines Ltd. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Legendary Ore Mining Corp., began shipping nickel ore in early April to Sudbury for processing from their advanced exploration project on their Alexo nickel property.
The company has reactivated the former Alexo mine, about 45 kilometres northeast of Timmins, within the Town of Iroquois Falls, and has entered
into a trucking agreement to ship 200 tonnes of nickel per day, with plans on entering full mine production this year.
Since April 5, the company has shipped 4,700 tonnes of material to Falconbridge's Strathcona mill in Sudbury. The company has an advanced exploration permit for a 10,000-pound bulk sample.
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BLV
Blackstone Ventures Inc. is a Vancouver based, mineral exploration company focused on nickel and related metals. In partnership with Falconbridge, Blackstone's key exploration properties are located in south-central Norway and are well positioned with respect to infrastructure. The Espedalen project is a historical, small scale, nickel producer that has an abundance of nickel showings but has never been explored with modern geophysical methods and deep drilling. The Vakkerlien project area contains a small near surface nickel deposit but is in an area of extensive surficial cover. In June of 2004 the Company reached an agreement to purchase the Kenbridge Nickel deposit in northern Ontario from Falconbridge. In addition to these projects, the company ...
1912--
We have the greatest nickel mining region in the world, with deposits of at least 50,000;000 tons of comparatively rich ore, containing, in addition to the nickel, a large amount of copper. There are blessings attached to all sorts of spheres in this world, as I am sure His Lordship the Bishop will admit. One of the greatest preventives of a quarrelsome spirit among the nations is the rising cost of nickel, because nickel is necessary for armour plate. (Laughter.) It is a very important constituent of armour plate, and when Germany builds four dreadnoughts in a year then England has to build eight, with the result that nickel shares are booming, and splendid dividends are being paid by both companies at the present time. Perhaps I should qualify this statement a little by saying that a very considerable part of the nickel output goes into automobiles. The wealthy millionaires sitting around this table, no doubt get a new automobile every year, thus helping the nickel industry to continue to thrive. I see no just reason why it should not. The only copper mined in Ontario at present is the accompaniment of nickel. About one half as much copper as nickel is produced in the treatment of the ores.
Table of Nickel Deposits
mustangminerals.com
No Subtype Deposit Age Size (Mtonnes) Ni% Cu% Reference
1 27.1a Sudbury (total), Ontario Proterozoic 1648 1.2 1.03 Naldrett, 1994; Canadian Mines Handbook 91-92
2 27.1b Great Lakes Nickel, Ontario Proterozoic 45.6 0.183 0.344 Great Lakes Nickel Ltd.1976 Annual Report
3 27.1c Thompson Ni belt (INCO), Manitoba Proterozoic 89 2.5 0.13 Naldrett, 1994; INCO Prospectus, 1968
4 27.1c Amax Area 1 ("Nose"), Manitoba Proterozoic 7.3 1.33 Roth (1975)
5 27.1c Manibridge, Manitoba Proterozoic 1.409 2.55 0.27 Coats and Brummer (1971)
6 27.1c Bucko, Manitoba Proterozoic 2.5 2.23 0.17 Falconbridge Review, 1991
7 27.1c Bowden, Manitoba Proterozoic 80 0.6 Northern Miner, 1970-08-06
8 27.1c Raglan deposits (6), Ungava, Quebec Proterozoic 18.5 3.13 0.88 Northern Miner, 1992-11-02
9 27.1c Expo-Ungava, Quebec Proterozoic 6.3 0.86 1.01 Northern Miner, 1992-11-02
10 27.1c Texmont, Ontario Archean 3.19 0.93 Coad (1979)
11 27.1c Langmuir (Nos.1&2), Ontario Archean 1.6 2.09 0.08 Coats (1982)
12 27.1c Mine Marbridge, Quebec Archean 0.774 2.82 0.1 Brett et al. (1976)
13 27.1c Alexo Mine, Ontario Archean 0.057 3.58 Shklanka (1969)
14 27.1c Redstone, Ontario Archean 1.22 2.39 0.09 Barrie et al. (1976)
15 27.1c Dumont, Quebec Archean 150 0.5 Duke (1986)
16 27.1c Gordon Lake, Ontario Archean 1.07 1.62 0.68 Coats (1982)
17 27.1c Shebandowan, Ontario Archean 15 1.5 1 Coats (1982)
18 27.1c Namew Lake, Manitoba Proterozoic 2.6 2.44 0.9 Canadian Minerals Yearbook, p.45.2
19 27.1d Montcalm, Ontario Archean 3.56 1.44 0.68 Barrie and Naldrett (1989)
20 27.1d St. Stephen (3 zones), NB Devonian 1 1.05 0.53 Potomac (1986)
21 27.1d Macassa, Limerick Tp., Ontario Proterozoic 1.8 0.91 0.26 Northern Miner, 1971-10-14
22 27.1d Lynn Lake, Manitoba Proterozoic 20.151 1.023 0.535 Pinsent (1980)
23 27.1d Giant Mascot, B.C. Cretaceous 2.05 1.4 0.5 Coats (1982)
24 27.1d Canalask, Yukon Triassic 0.5 1.68 0.04 NMI 115F/15Ni001**
25 27.1d Wellgreen, Yukon Triassic 0.669 2.04 1.42 Hulbert et al. (1988)
26 27.1d (?) Lorraine, Quebec Archean 0.661 0.39 0.91 NMI 031M/07Cu002**
43 27.1d Voisey's Bay "Ovoid" (Labrador) Proterozoic 31.7 2.83 1.68 Northern Miner, 1995-10-23
Mustang Minerals Corp. Maskwa, Manitoba Archean 6.5 0.75 0.14 Roscoe Postle Associates 2005
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