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Voisey's Bay / Ovoid mine

Voisey's Bay / Ovoid mine, Canada. Producing, open pit and underground, mining nickel, copper, cobalt.

Why Voisey's Bay / Ovoid is famous

Vale's Voisey's Bay nickel and copper operation in Newfoundland and Labrador.1,2

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What kind of deposit

Magmatic nickel-copper-PGE sulphide

Voisey's Bay / Ovoid today

Where nickel is mined todayWhere copper is mined todayWhere cobalt is mined todayMining in Canada

Where next

Deposit types

An example ofMagmatic nickel-copper-PGE sulphideVoisey's Bay / Ovoid belongs to the magmatic nickel-copper-pge sulphide family of deposits.4

Sources

  1. Form 20-F for the year ended 31 December 2025 Vale S.A. (SEC)
  2. data/minerals/operations.csv Prospector Trails (internal)
  3. Robert Friedland Canadian Mining Hall of Fame
  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).