New Mining In Sudbury

URSA Major Minerals Incorporated (TSX:UMJ) is pleased to announce that it has started mining operations at the Shakespeare Nickel Copper Mine located about 70 km west of Sudbury

Contractors are on the site and mining and crushing operations are currently underway.

Based on previous ore grades and metallurgical results, it is expected that the 200,000 tonnes of ore should produce contained metals in concentrate of about 1.1 million of nickel, 1.7 million lbs of copper, 55.7 thousand lbs of cobalt and 3,100 oz of precious metals.

The company plans to start trucking ore for processing at Xstrata’s Sudbury operations.