• Data Access
  • Your Email  
  • Your Email  
Keep me signed in.
Forgot your password?
Close
  • Forgot Your Password?
  • Enter the email you signed up with and we'll email it to you.
  • Your Email  
Close
Back
MDO
Mining Data Solutions
  • Home
  • Database
  • Subscribe
  • Sign In
  • Sign In
Canada
Onaping Depth Project (Sudbury INO Operation)

This page is not tailored to
devices with screen width under 750 px.
 Location:
1.5 km E from Levack, Ontario, Canada

  Project Contacts:
6 Edison Road
Falconbridge
Ontario, Canada
P0M 1S0
Phone  ...  Subscription required
EmailEmail
WebsiteWeb
Additional Resources for Suppliers & Investors
Drill results over 30 g/t Au
Stay on top of recent discoveries.
Search drill results by commodity and grade.
Largest mines in the Americas
Mining and mill throughput capaciites.
Full profiles of select mines and projects.
Deepest underground mines
Shaft depth and mill throughput data.
Full profiles of select mines and projects.
Heavy mobile equipment
HME type, model, size and quantity.
Full profiles of select mines and projects.
Permitting and construction projects
Projects at the permitting or construction stage. Full profiles of select projects.
Mines with remote camps
Camp size, mine location and contacts.
Full profiles of select mines and projects.
Mines & projects in Canada
A list of country's mines and projects.
Full profiles of select mines and projects.
  • Overview
  • Owners
  • Mining
  • Processing
  • Production
  • Reserves
  • Costs & Financials
  • Fleet
  • Personnel
  • Filings & News

Thank you for browsing through mine profiles compiled by the Mining Data Online team.

Would you like to subcribe or schedule a Demo?
  • Name:
     
  • Company:
     
  • Position:
     
  • Phone:
  • Email:
  • Message:

Overview

StageConstruction
Mine TypeUnderground
Commodities
  • Nickel
  • Copper
  • Cobalt
  • Platinum
  • Palladium
Mining Method
  • Backfill
Production Start...
Mine Life2035
Once complete, Onaping Depth mine will become a primary source of nickel ore for Glencore Sudbury mill and smelter operations.

The current timeline has first ore up from Onaping Depth in 2024 and the mine completed by 2025.


Owners

Source: p. 27
CompanyInterestOwnership
Glencore plc. 100 % Indirect
Glencore Canada Corp. (operator) 100 % Direct

Contractors

Subscription required - Subscription is required.


Deposit Type


Summary:


Mining Methods

  • Backfill


Summary:

The Onaping Depth project will be equipped with digital technologies such as real-time remote management, monitoring, and control from surface. Innovative safety systems will be integrated into the operation in addition to mine-wide Wi-Fi communication between employees and from underground to surface.

The battery electric vehicles (EV) to be used at the project will be a more effective system to save energy compared to a diesel-fueled operation. The EVs are expected to minimize the power used for ventilation and refrigeration at the project.

The battery vehicles to be used are the R1700 XE, Caterpillar’s first commercial battery electric load-haul-dump (LHD) vehicle. The LHD is a result of the extensive research and testing conducted on the proof-of-concept R1300 at Sudbury INO underground operation.

Underground mining with bottom-up mining approach supported by a single shaft development will be conducted at the Onaping Depth project.

The project will have a 7.2m diameter production shaft, which will be sunk from the 4025 Level of Craig Mine. The shaft will be approximately1.5km horizontal from the existing Craig shaft.

A fleet of 40t, 14t, and OEM 14T/18T LHD trucks will be used for underground mining operations at Onaping.

The Onaping Depth mine will have a rock production capacity of 1.74 Mt/y which is waste and ore combined, of which some 1.4 Mt/y will be ore, constrained by the hoist capacity of 248 t/h, ........


Crushing and Grinding


Processing

Flow Sheet: Subscription required

Summary:

- subscription is required.


Projected Production:

CommodityUnitsAvg. Annual
Nickel kt 20
Copper kt  ......  Subscription required

Operational Metrics:

Metrics
Annual mining rate 1.74 Mt *
Annual ore mining rate 1.4 Mt *
* According to 2017 study.

Reserves at December 31, 2017:

CategoryTonnage CommodityGrade
Measured & Indicated 14.5 Mt Nickel 1.67 %
Measured & Indicated 14.5 Mt Copper 1.25 %
Measured & Indicated 14.5 Mt Cobalt 0.06 %
Measured & Indicated 14.5 Mt Platinum 0.45 g/t
Measured & Indicated 14.5 Mt Palladium 0.52 g/t
Inferred 1.2 Mt Nickel 3.6 %
Inferred 1.2 Mt Copper 1.2 %
Inferred 1.2 Mt Cobalt 0.1 %
Inferred 1.2 Mt Platinum 0.5 g/t
Inferred 1.2 Mt Palladium 0.5 g/t

2018 Study Costs and Valuation Metrics :

MetricsUnitsLOM Total
Total CapEx $M CAD  ......  Subscription required
Subscription required - Subscription is required.


Heavy Mobile Equipment:
HME TypeModelSizeQuantityStatusRef. Date
Load-Haul-Dump (LHD) 14 t ....................... Subscription required Existing Dec 11, 2018
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Proposed Dec 11, 2018
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Proposed May 14, 2019
....................... Subscription required Proposed May 27, 2022
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Proposed May 27, 2022
....................... Subscription required Proposed May 27, 2022
....................... Subscription required Proposed May 27, 2022
Truck (haul) 40 t Existing Dec 11, 2018
Subscription required - Subscription is required.

Mine Management:

Job TitleNameProfileRef. Date
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Subscription required Jul 4, 2022
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Subscription required Jul 4, 2022
Subscription required - Subscription is required.


Corporate Filings & Presentations:

DocumentYear
Other 2022
................................... Subscription required 2021
................................... Subscription required 2021
................................... Subscription required 2021
................................... Subscription required 2019
................................... Subscription required 2019
................................... Subscription required 2019
Corporate Presentation 2018
Other 2018
Other 2017
Subscription required - Subscription is required.

Subscription required - Subscription is required.

Terms of Use Privacy Policy © 2017-2023 MDO Data Online Inc.