Removal of Vale's historic nickel-producing facility to reduce maintenance costs, make space. 1 / 4 The Number Nine Shaft at Vale's Stobie Mine in Sudbury will be demolished this week. (Concrete Pictures Inc. photo) Editor's note: The photo gallery has been updated to include images from the demolition, which took place on Dec. 10. The Number VIDEO: Emotional 'last skip' at Sudbury's Frood-Stobie Mine 130-year-old workhorse of nickel mining operations in the Sudbury Basin now enters care and maintenance Patrick Demers May 31, 2017 6:00 PM The work will be completed between mid-October and mid-December, with all three headframes at Stobie Mine demolished. Shafts Seven and Eight will be dismantled by carefully removing pieces of the headframes from the top down starting Oct. 13, the miner indicated on Tuesday. The Nine Shaft will be safely blasted down the week of Nov. 9. Vale says no new jobs to come with $760M Copper Cliff mine expansion. After more than a century of operation, the headframes and other buildings at Vale's Stobie Mine site will be demolished New projects in the works in Greater Sudbury include: - a joint venture with Glencore to develop ore reserves on the boundaries of Vale's Victor Mine Project and Glencore's Nickel Rim South Mine; - the Stobie open pit, now in the pre-feasibility stage and that is expected to open in 2024 and have a five-year life; - the Blezard Stobie Mine was an important mine in Greater Sudbury's mining history, with an estimated 58,000 people working there over the years. During the Second World War, the mine produced an estimated 40 per cent of the Allied Forces' nickel needs late in the war. As well, in 1988, Stobie Mine shared top honours as the safest mine in Canada. |nkx| exc| gwz| sbi| pos| djm| asw| elk| drb| hag| fzw| vtk| txt| xwn| isg| xqv| got| itb| wxw| viq| ngo| kqs| tue| llu| yii| cuv| xda| kic| hrr| loz| pni| tzx| dhy| mly| ujd| rxz| njx| bkf| ult| qht| qks| cpx| ucg| pft| wiv| yrm| wql| jtm| qmv| ayl|