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Coleman Mine (Sudbury Operation)

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 Location:
34 km NW from Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

  Regional Office:
18 Rink Street
Copper Cliff
Ontario, Canada
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Overview

StageProduction
Mine TypeUnderground
Commodities
  • Nickel
  • Copper
  • Cobalt
  • Platinum
  • Palladium
  • Gold
Mining Method
  • Mechanized Cut & Fill
  • Post Pillar Cut & Fill
  • Underhand Cut & Fill
  • Blast Hole Stoping
Production Start...
Mine Life2025
Coleman mine is a part of Vale integrated Ontario Operations which also includes (Copper Cliff, Creighton, Garson and Totten mines), processing and refining facilities (Clarabelle Mill, Copper Cliff Smelter and Nickel Refinery, Port Colborne refining complex), supported by the Clydach Refinery in Wales, and non-operating mines, and non-producing properties.


Owners

Source: p. 6
CompanyInterestOwnership
Vale S.A. 100 % Indirect
Vale conducts nickel operations primarily through wholly owned subsidiary Vale Canada Limited, which operates two nickel production systems, one in the North Atlantic region and the other in the Asia Pacific region.

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Deposit Type

  • Magmatic
  • Footwall hosted
  • Breccia pipe / Stockwork


Summary:

The magmatic copper-nickel sulphide deposits at Sudbury are part of the Paleoproterozoic Sudbury Structure which comprises the Sudbury Igneous Complex (SIC); breccias, mudstones siltstones and wackes of the Whitewater Group which occupy the centre of the Sudbury Basin; and a ring of brecciated and shockmetamorphosed Archean and Paleoproterozoic footwall rocks which surrounds the SIC. All rocks defined as footwall to the Sudbury Structure are cut by occurrences of Sudbury Breccia. This breccia occurs as small veins, irregularly shaped patches and large, laterally extensive, crudely tabular bodies, which may extend for many kilometres along strike. The rocks of the SIC, dated at 1.85 Ga, are exposed within an elliptical or beanshaped ring with a NE-rending long axis of 60 km and a short axis of 27 km.

North Range contact-type Ni-Cu deposits occur at the base of the SIC in association with a noritic to gabbroic inclusion-bearing contact phase termed the sub-layer, and within the metamorphic textured footwall breccia/granite breccia below the sub-layer in embayment features. These deposits include the Coleman Mine (formerly McCreedy East), Main, West and East orebodies.

The sub-layer inclusions consist of footwall and mafic to ultramafic rocks with the volumetric distribution of the sub-layer controlled by the shape and morphology of the basal contact of the SIC. Sulphide mineralization within the sub-layer consists of disseminated to massive sulphide genera ........


Mining Methods

  • Mechanized Cut & Fill
  • Post Pillar Cut & Fill
  • Underhand Cut & Fill
  • Blast Hole Stoping


Summary:

The primary mining methods used at Coleman Mine are Post Pillar cut-and-fill mining in the massive contact orebodies and mechanized cut-and-fill mining in the narrow vein footwall orebodies. For mining sill pillars in the Coleman main orebody (MOB) and the 150 orebody, Blasthole Stoping and/or underhand cut-and-fill mining methods are used.


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Combined production numbers are reported under Sudbury Operation

Operational Metrics:

Metrics202120202019201820172016
Ore tonnes mined  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required1,102 kt618 kt1,007 kt1,209 kt
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Reserves at December 31, 2021:

CategoryTonnage CommodityGrade
Measured & Indicated 2,524 kt Nickel 1.62 %
Measured & Indicated 2,524 kt Copper 4.03 %
Measured & Indicated 2,524 kt Cobalt 0.04 %
Measured & Indicated 2,524 kt Platinum 3.33 g/t
Measured & Indicated 2,524 kt Palladium 4.44 g/t
Measured & Indicated 2,524 kt Gold 1.61 g/t
Inferred 877 kt Nickel 0.5 %
Inferred 877 kt Copper 3.3 %
Inferred 877 kt Cobalt 0.01 %
Inferred 877 kt Platinum 2.4 g/t
Inferred 877 kt Palladium 3.2 g/t
Inferred 877 kt Gold 1.1 g/t



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Mine Management:

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Staff:

EmployeesYear
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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

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Form 20-F 2018
Form 20-F 2017
Form 20-F 2016
Form 20-F 2015
Form 20-F 2014
Other 2010
Project Description 2010
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