Kidd was first put into production as an open pit in 1966 with an estimate of producing 25 million tonnes of ore. The most recent figures indicate the mine has produced far beyond that, with more than 150 million tonnes of copper and zinc ore, according to Ryan Roberts, Kidd Mine operations manager, speaking at the early June mining show.

Glencore and its predecessors have been mining the Kidd Creek copper/zinc deposits since 1966. The mine transitioned from an open pit mine to an underground mine in 1972 and has undergone several expansions known as 1 Mine, 2 Mine, 3 Mine and Mine D with the deposit growing deeper in each expansion.

Pirie, who was the opening speaker on the last day of the two-day virtual conference, told delegates, "Kidd Creek, as you know, has been working towards developing Mine 5. Last Friday, I was talking to the mine manager, Mike Furlotte, who told me that Glencore has announced and approved a fast-tracking of the feasibility study of …

Researchers have uncovered the first direct evidence of resident microbes in Kidd Creek Mine, a 3-kilometer-deep copper and zinc mine in Ontario. The findings, published last month (July 18) in Geomicrobiology Journal, confirm previous work indicating that ancient, sulfate-rich water in the region could support what researchers call "deep …

The Kidd Creek copper smelter in Timmins, ON, is to close permanently on May 1, 2010, Xstrata Copper announced earlier this week. On the same date, the Kidd Creek zinc refinery will also cease operations permanently. The Kidd Creek mine and concentrator will continue to operate, but there will be about 700 fewer smelter and …

The Kidd Mine is the world's deepest base-metal mine with mining activities being carried out at 9,600ft and shaft bottom at 9,889ft below sea level. In 2020, Kidd …

The Kidd Creek Mine has produced in excess of 150 million tonnes of copper and zinc ore since 1966. The area is thus highly prospective for both Ni-Cu and VMS deposits. Like other prospects in the ...

Kidd Creek Mines Ltd. is an integrated mineral resource company owned by Canada Development Corporäon (CDC). The company owns and operates a mining and …

Kidd Creek Mine Underground Mine is located 24 km N from Timmins, Ontario, Canada. Data Access; Keep me signed in. Forgot your password? ... sequence as massive sulphide lenses of dominantly pyrite-pyrrhotite-sphalerite-galena-rich ores that are underlain by copper in chalcopyrite stringer zones. Reserves - subscription is required. Mining Methods

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The Kidd Creek Mine is considered to be a world class copper zinc volcanagenic massive sulphide deposit. The Kidd Mine has been in production for over 50 years and produced in excess of 150 ...

Kidd Mine, Kidd Township, Timmins, Cochrane District, Ontario, Canada : The mine exploits a volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit and has produced 124.22Mt grading 6.18 % Zn, 2.31% Cu, 0. 22% Pb and 87 g/t Ag. Mining operations began in …

These deposits are concentrated in 10 separate mining camps, including Sturgeon Lake, Manitouwadge, Mattagami Lake, Chibougamau, Joutel, Val d'Or, Bous-quet, Noranda, Kidd Creek, and Kamiskotia (Fig. 1 and Table 1). A few deposits in rocks of similar age and composition are also known in the Slave province, the Churchill …

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The Kidd2/Carnegie Project consists of a group of patented and staked mining claims in the vicinity of the Kidd Creek Mine and 24 km north of Timmins, Ontario presently owned by Glencore.

The Kidd Creek Mine has produced in excess of 150 million tonnes of copper and zinc ore since 1966. The area is thus highly prospective for both Ni-Cu and VMS deposits. Like other prospects in the ...

Glencore and its predecessors have been mining the Kidd Creek copper/zinc deposits since 1966. In 2011, a $148 million (CA) mine-deepening project was completed and we currently mine at 9600 feet with shaft bottom at 9889 feet.

Commissioning for Mine D expansion began in 2004, and is scheduled to increase the operation's ultimate capacity, in stages, to 2.7Mt/yr of ore to 2012 and deepen Kidd Mine to a final depth of 9,500 ft and extending the life of mine to 2017. Kidd is the deepest base metal mine in the world.

The Kidd Creek mine is an Archean volcanogenic Cu-Zn deposit with total past production and current reserves of more than 138.5 Mt at 2.4 percent Cu, 6.5 percent Zn, 0.23 percent Pb, 90 g/t Ag, and up to 0.15 percent Sn. ... Extensive lateral flow occurred within the bedded volcaniclastic rocks, and the highest temperature fluids appear to have ...

Dec 18, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - The upper Kidd–Munro assemblage is host to the giant Kidd Creek Mine, associated with high-silica rhyolites and ultramafic volcanic rocks. …

Sherwood Lollar first visited the Glencore-owned Kidd Creek mine north of Timmins in 1992. Seventeen years later, on an expedition that took her 2.4 km underground, her team finally extracted the ...

Xstrata Copper Kidd Creek Mines: Location: P.O. Bag 2002 #10050 Highway 101 East Timmins, Ontario Canada P4N 7K1: Background: ... Flow Rate: 77882 CFM Pressure Rise: 8.852 psi (245" WC) Driver: 3500 Hp, Electric Motor- ... 2009 - Xstrata PLC said it will close its Kidd Creek copper smelter and refinery temporarily due to a …

Commodities : Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc. ... (2.25 km west of Kidd Creek), the Potter and Potterdoal mines (100 km east of Kidd Creek), and several small deposits and occurrences in the Stoughton-Roquemaure and lower Malartic groups in Quebec. At Kidd Creek, the Kidd Volcanic Complex is a coherent, although structurally complicated ...

Zircons from rhyolites hosting the Kidd Creek volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit preserve magmatic oxygen isotope ratios (δ 18 O = 5.4‰ ± 0.3‰, n = 11) that are indistinguishable from average values of other plutonic and volcanic rocks of the Superior Province. Oxygen isotope ratios of petrographically pristine, primary quartz phenocrysts, …

The Kidd Mine is in northern Ontario, 500 miles northwest of Toronto. The mine began operation in 1966, producing copper, zinc, indium, cadmium, silver and sulphuric acid. …

This stratigraphic horizon also runs through the Kidd Creek Mine. Figure 1: Geological Map of the Kidd Creek Area showing the relation of Area and Kidd Creek Rhyolites. Figure 2: North Facing ...

Near Timmins, Ontario, geologists discovered one of the world's largest deposits of zinc, copper, lead, silver, and tin. Known as the Kidd Creek deposit, it originally formed on the seafloor around hot springs 2.7 billion years ago, much as modern black smokers form on the seafloor today.

The Kidd Creek Copper Refinery, one of the most automated and mechanized refineries in the world, has been in operation since 1981. ... conversion from copper starter sheets to stainless steel electrodes, anode pressing and lug milling, fine-filtration of the electrolyte, individual tank electrolyte flow measurement, conversion …

Toronto, Ontario – February 6, 2024 – Noble Mineral Exploration Inc. ("Noble" or the "Company") (TSXV:NOB) (FRANKFURT:NB7) (OTC:NLPXF) is pleased to report that drilling has been completed on the Kidd2/Carnegie Project. Five holes (1,692 meters) were drilled with helicopter support on various targets near the Kidd Creek Mine.

Figure 1 – Exploration Model for the Kidd Creek Mine. Adapted from Morgan, L.A., and Schulz, K.J., (2012)* ... Copper, PGM property, ~518 hectares in the Laverlochere Nickel, Copper, PGM property and ~482 hectares in the Cere-Villebon Nickel, Copper, PGM property, all of which are in the province of Quebec.