Scientific data near [46.50000,-80.97000]

Search area extends approximately 17.8 km east-west and 25.9 km north-south.

Geographic context

Canadian census divisions
Greater Sudbury	Census Division
Ontario	Province
Canada	Cross reference of political and quadrangles
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
CONISTON	1:50,000 scale quadrangle
SUDBURY	1:250,000 scale quadrangle
Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Ontario	province
Canada	country
North America	continent
Land	continent

World copper smelters

Locations and characteristics of the copper smelters throughout the world as of 2002.

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Record	Type	Comment
Falconbridge Ltd.

Major mineral deposits of the world

Regional locations and general geologic setting of known deposits of major nonfuel mineral commodities. Originally compiled in five parts by diverse authors, combined here for convenience despite likely inconsistencies among the regional reports.

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Deposit name	Deposit type	Commodity
Frood - Stobie	Igneous	Nickel, copper, platinum, palladium, cobalt

Mineral Resource Data System

MRDS describes metallic and nonmetallic mineral resources throughout the world. Included are deposit name, location, commodity, deposit description, geologic characteristics, production, reserves, resources, and references.

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Site name	Development	Commodities
Little Stobie	Producer	NI CU PGE CO AG AU PB ZN SE TE
Stobie Mine	Producer	NI CU PGE AU AG CO SE TE
Frood Mine	Producer	NI CU PGE AU AG CO SE TE
Frood Mine	Producer	NI CU PGE AU AG CO SE TE
Little Stobie Mine	Producer	NI CU PGE AU AG CO SE TE
Stobie Mine	Producer	NI CU PGE AU AG CO SE TE
Little Stobie Mine	Producer	NI CU PGE AU AG CO SE TE
Lindsley Mine	Producer	NI CU CO PGE_PT PGE_PD AU
Frood	Producer	CO CU NI PGE_PT AU AG PGE PGE_PD
Frood Mine	Producer	AU PGE_PT CU NI
Shepard Mine	Past Producer	NI CU PGE_PT AU AG
Mount Nickel Mine	Past Producer	CU NI PGE_PT AU AG
(Facility) Copper Cliff Copper Smelter	Plant	CU CO AU NI AG S_A
(Facility) Copper Cliff Copper Refinery	Plant	CU AU NI SE AG TE
Little Stobie	Plant	CU NI CO AU AG PGE PGE_PD PGE_PT
(Facility) Falconbridge Nickel/Copper Smelter	Plant	CO CU NI
(Facility) Copper Cliff Nickel Refinery	Plant	NI
(Facility) Copper Cliff Smelter	Plant	NI CO
Lindsley Mine	Producer	CU NI CO PGE
(Facility) Sudbury Smelter	Plant	NI FE S
(Facility) Falconbridge Smelter	Plant	NI CU

An index to PGE-Ni-Cr deposits and occurrences in selected mineral-occurrence databases (web-accessible database)

A compendium of references to previously published databases and database records that describe PGE, nickel, and chromium deposits and occurrences. These data show where to obtain more detailed information about each deposit or occurrence.

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Deposit name	Deposit type	Location
McKim	unclassified
Mount Nickel	unclassified
Lindsley	unclassified
Little Stobie	unclassified
Frood	unclassified
Stobie	unclassified
Blezard	unclassified
Kirkwood	unclassified
Sheppard	Past Producer	Ontario, Canada
Blezard	Past Producer	Ontario, Canada
MCKIM MINE AREA PITS	Past Producer	Ontario, Canada
McKim	Past Producer	Ontario, Canada
FROOD-STOBIE	Producer	Ontario, Canada
MOUNT NICKEL	Past Producer	Ontario, Canada
Little Stobie	Producer	Ontario, Canada
Stobie Mine	Producer	Ontario, Canada
KIRKWOOD	Past Producer	Ontario, Canada
FROOD-STOBIE	Producer	Ontario, Canada
KIRKWOOD	Past Producer	Ontario, Canada
Sheppard	Past Producer	Ontario, Canada
Blezard	Past Producer	Ontario, Canada
MOUNT NICKEL	Past Producer	Ontario, Canada
McKim	Past Producer	Ontario, Canada
Little Stobie	Producer	Ontario, Canada
MCKIM MINE AREA PITS	Past Producer	Ontario, Canada
Stobie Mine	Producer	Ontario, Canada
Mekim Mine	Past Producer	Ontario, Canada
Frood Mine	Producer	Ontario, Canada
Little Stobie Mine	Producer	Ontario, Canada
Stobie Mine	Producer	Ontario, Canada
Clarabelle No. 2 Open Pit	Producer	Ontario, Canada
Frood Mine	Producer	Ontario, Canada
Copper Cliff North	Past Producer	Ontario, Canada
Stobie Mine	Producer	Ontario, Canada
Little Stobie	Producer	Ontario, Canada
Shepard Mine	Past Producer	Ontario, Canada
Mount Nickel Mine	Past Producer	Ontario, Canada
Clarabelle	Producer	Ontario, Canada
Frood	Producer	Ontario, Canada
Lindsley Mine	Producer	Ontario, Canada
MEEHAN	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
MICROWAVE SHOWING	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
MCKIM J SHOWING	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
LASALLE	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
CAMERON MINE	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
NEELON TOWNSHIP NW	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
DISCOVERY SITE	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
MINNOW LAKE WEST PIT	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
MCKIM H SHOWING	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
MCKIM I SHOWING	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
MALBEUF AND MARTIN	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
MCCONNELL MINE	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
Lindsley	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
SIR MORTIMER DAVIS	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
BLEZARD LOT 8, CON II	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
BRODER NE	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
RAMSEY LAKE	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
JUNIOR FROOD	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
Mccormick	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
LASALLE	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
RAMSEY LAKE	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
SIR MORTIMER DAVIS	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
BLEZARD LOT 8, CON II	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
Mccormick	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
MEEHAN	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
JUNIOR FROOD	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
Lindsley	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
MALBEUF AND MARTIN	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
BRODER NE	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
CAMERON MINE	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
NEELON TOWNSHIP NW	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
DISCOVERY SITE	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
MICROWAVE SHOWING	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
MINNOW LAKE WEST PIT	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
MCKIM H SHOWING	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
MCKIM I SHOWING	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
MCKIM J SHOWING	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
MCCONNELL MINE	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
Blezard Mine	Past Producer	Ontario, Canada
Lindsley Mine	Producer	Ontario, Canada
Clarabelle No. 2 Open Pit	Producer	Ontario, Canada
Frood Mine	Producer	Ontario, Canada
Little Stobie Mine	Producer	Ontario, Canada

Mineral operations outside the United States

Mineral facilities and operations outside the United States compiled by the National Minerals Information Center of the USGS.

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Facility name	Facility type	Commodity
Sudbury Division, Sudbury, Ontario	Plant	Copper
Smelter in Sudbury, Ontario	Smelter	Copper
Refinery in Sudbury, Ontario	Refinery	Copper
Craig, Fraser, Lindsley, and Lockerby in Sudbury district, Ontario	Plant	Nickel
Smelter in Sudbury, Ontario	Smelter	Nickel
Refinery in Sudbury, Ontario	Refinery	Nickel

Global assessment of undiscovered copper resources

Deposits, prospects, and permissive tracts for porphyry and sediment-hosted copper resources worldwide, with estimates of undiscovered copper resources.

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Tract name	Deposit type	Geology
Pacific Margin	porphyry copper	Cretaceous through middle Tertiary volcanic and intrusive rocks representing a series of continental- and island-arc systems accreted and superimposed onto the paleomargin of northeast Asia.