Inco Ltd. has shipped the first train load of nickel-copper ore from its newly-reopened Crean Hill mine at Sudbury, Ont.
The reactivated mine is being made all-electric and will be one of the most technologically sophisticated mines in Canada. It’s expected it will be operating at 600 tons per day by late this year and will resume full production in 1989, at 3,000 tons per day.
Every piece of equipment to be used underground will be electrically powered (its technological innovation is the subject of a feature article in the current issue of The Northern Miner Magazine).
Some equipment at Crean Hill will be computerized and self-monitoring and will automatically adjust or shut down if there is a variance from established settings.
The Crean Hill is not a new mine. It’s actually 82 years old. In 1978 the mine was put on standby until the fall of last year, when phase one of the mine reactivation began.
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