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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.

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
(Facility) Copper Cliff Copper Refinery	Plant	CU AU NI SE AG TE
(Facility) Copper Cliff Copper Smelter	Plant	CU CO AU NI AG S_A
(Facility) Copper Cliff Nickel Refinery	Plant	NI
(Facility) Falconbridge Nickel/Copper Smelter	Plant	CO CU NI
(Facility) Copper Cliff Smelter	Plant	NI CO
(Facility) Falconbridge Smelter	Plant	NI CU
(Facility) Sudbury Smelter	Plant	NI FE S

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
FROOD-STOBIE	Producer	Ontario, Canada
Frood Mine	Producer	Ontario, Canada
Frood	Producer	Ontario, Canada
MICROWAVE SHOWING	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
LASALLE	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
MINNOW LAKE WEST PIT	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
MCKIM H SHOWING	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
MCKIM I SHOWING	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
BRODER NE	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
RAMSEY LAKE	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
LASALLE	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
RAMSEY LAKE	Occurrence	Ontario, Canada
BRODER NE	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
Frood 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.