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Creighton mine

Creighton mine, Canada. Producing, underground, mining nickel, copper.

Why Creighton is famous

Creighton is an underground nickel-copper mine in the Sudbury Basin, Ontario. Vale's 2025 annual report dates its Sudbury underground operations to 1885, with a Vale interest of 90 per cent and reserves projected to last to 2046 or 2047. The 1885 date applies to the Sudbury complex, not to Creighton alone.1,2

Story cards

Timeline

  1. 1883Copper-bearing rock found during Canadian Pacific Railway works at Sudbury3

What kind of deposit

Magmatic nickel-copper-PGE sulphide

Creighton today

Where nickel is mined todayWhere copper is mined todayMining in Canada

Where next

Events

Led toCopper-bearing rock found during Canadian Pacific Railway works at SudburyRead what happened near Creighton: Copper-bearing rock found during Canadian Pacific Railway works at Sudbury.1

Places

Located inGreater SudburyCreighton is about 14 km from Greater Sudbury.1

Deposit types

An example ofMagmatic nickel-copper-PGE sulphideCreighton belongs to the magmatic nickel-copper-pge sulphide family of deposits.4

Sources

  1. Annual Report on Form 20-F for 2025 Vale S.A. (SEC)
  2. data/minerals/operations.csv (modern operations table) prospectortrails.com internal data
  3. Discovery Site of Sudbury Mining Camp (geotour sheet) Ontario Geological Survey / Ministry of Mines
  4. Mineral Deposit Models (Bulletin 1693, Cox and Singer, eds., 1986) US Geological Survey

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Pictures: Elektrisk malmletning. Undersökningar på Billiton, 1920., Okänd / Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Falu gruva, Lundberg, Bengt A / Europeana (CC0 1.0).