Nickel Mines - Nickel Mines in Australia, Nickel Mines in Canada, Nickel Mines in Finland, Emily Ann and Maggie Hays Nickel Mines (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Nickel Mines in Australia, Nickel Mines in Canada, Nickel Mines in Finland, Emily Ann and Maggie Hays Nickel Mines, Ravensthorpe Nickel Mine, Kanichee Mine, Raglan Mine, Murrin Murrin Joint Venture, Browns Polymetallic Ore Deposit, Voisey's Bay Mine, Birchtree Mine, Nickel Deposits of Finland, Garson Mine, Murray Mine, Creighton Mine, Frood Mine, Copper Cliff North Mine, Copper Cliff South Mine, Bucko Lake Mine. Excerpt: The Emily Ann and Maggie Hays nickel deposits are situated approximately 150 km west of the town of Norseman, Western Australia, within the Lake Johnston Greenstone Belt. Having been operational since 2001, Norilsk suspended mining at Emily Ann and Maggie Hays in early 2009 because of drastically falling nickel prices. The Maggie Hays deposit was first officially discovered in 1996 by LionOre Australia, although it had essentially been found by prospecting in the 1970s by Anaconda Mines (now Minara Resources) and Union Miniere, who had first discovered a nickel geochemical anomaly and drilled the disseminated halo, but missed the lucrative high-grade massive sulfide mineralisation by as little as 3 metres. The recognition of the Maggie Hays orebody by LionOre geologists in the late 1990s was based upon electromagnetic geophysical surveys and deep diamond drilling of conductive anomalies. LionOre geologists credit the discovery to recognition of the electromagnetic response and drilling of the anomaly, however it is widely recognised that the initial discovery was based upon literature research and the fact that in the late 1970s and 1980s Union Miniere/Anaconda relinquished the tenements in a period of unfavorably low nickel prices. Reassessment of the geophysical signature at Maggie Hays indicates that the hangingwall band... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6076925