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Kidd Mine (Kidd Creek)

Kidd Mine (Kidd Creek), Canada. Producing, underground, mining copper, zinc, silver.

Why Kidd Mine (Kidd Creek) is famous

Described in December 2024 as the world's deepest base metals mine, with closure announced for the end of 2026. Status should be re-checked after that date.1,2,3,4

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Timeline

  1. 2011Glencore lists in London5

What kind of deposit

Volcanogenic massive sulphide (Kuroko type)

Kidd Mine (Kidd Creek) today

Where copper is mined todayWhere zinc is mined todayWhere silver is mined todayMining in Canada

Where next

Mines

Same kind of depositFalun Mine (Stora Kopparberg)Falun's copper mine closed in 1992. Kidd, a mine of the same family, is called the world's deepest base metals mine.6

Events

Owned byGlencore lists in LondonGlencore's Kidd was called the world's deepest base metals mine in December 2024.1

Places

Located inTimminsKidd Mine (Kidd Creek) is about 24 km from Timmins.1

Deposit types

An example ofVolcanogenic massive sulphide (Kuroko type)A working example of the volcanogenic massive sulphide (kuroko type) type.7

Sources

  1. Kidd Creek closure announcement, December 2024 CTV News
  2. Wikidata entity Q6404642
  3. 2020-21 Minerals Yearbook, Canada (advance release) US Geological Survey
  4. data/minerals/operations.csv (modern operations table) prospectortrails.com internal data
  5. Glencore timeline
  6. Falun copper mine feature Christian Science Monitor
  7. 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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