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INCO R&D: Goro Laterite Development

New Caledonia is the site of Inco's newest opportunity. The French island territory in the South Pacific is the home of the exciting Goro deposit. Not only is this the world's highest grade laterite n...

INCO R&D: Foraging for Future Ore

The Inco mines and plants have a voracious appetite. The Ontario and Manitoba mining operations consumed 9.484 million tonnes of ore in 2001 containing 166,000 tonnes of nickel, 129,000 tonnes of copp...

News (April 01, 2002)

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Operations: The Growing Business of Reclamation

The world's expectations in the matter of land management have risen dramatically over the last nine decades. So has Inco raised its demands, becoming one of the country's leaders.Inco's first foray i...

Overview: Inco at 100

The International Nickel Company, now known as Inco Limited, was incorporated in 1902, merging the interests of seven mining companies. It is therefore celebrating its centenary in April this year.The...

Operations: New Lease on Life for Thompson Operation

Inco's Thompson operation has been in production since 1961, with nickel-cobalt mines, as well as a mill, smelter and refinery. Its underground mines and pits lie along the Thompson Nickel Belt in the...

Operations: Advances in Automation

Mining in the past two decades has taken giant steps toward productivity, efficiency and safety. One of the greatest is the automation of many underground mining jobs. It is both safer and more effici...

Overview: How Inco compares today with 1989

Over the decades, Canadian Mining Journal has published a number of special issues about Inco, most recently in June 1988. CEO Scott Hand compares the Inco of 1989 to the company today.There have been...

How I was sold on doing this issue

Jerry Rogers called me often in 1999. Inco Ltd.'s director of public affairs kept asking when I was going to come to Sudbury to discover all the new things his company was doing. What could an old com...

EXPLORATION: Trends and Developments In 2001

Reports of company mergers continued as geophysical survey contractors and instrumentation companies consolidated amid decreased exploration expenditures worldwide. However, in spite of this decline, ...

PDAC: RED LAKE GOLD RUSH

Nothing gets the heart racing like the prospect of a high-grade gold discovery. And where better to look than in northwestern Ontario, where two such mines are operating. Placer Dome's Campbell mine h...

Natural gas-powered mine truck for low emissions

Cummins Westport Inc.--a joint venture of Cummins Inc., of Columbus, Ind., and Westport Innovations Inc., of Vancouver, B.C.--is joining forces with four other companies in a low-emissions, natural ga...