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Sudbury Integrated Nickel Operations - Fraser mine

Sudbury Integrated Nickel Operations - Fraser mine, Canada, mining nickel.

Why Sudbury Integrated Nickel Operations - Fraser is famous

Fraser is one of Vale's Sudbury nickel mines in Ontario, where Vale sells 70% of by-product gold under a stream for 20 years.1,2

What kind of deposit

Magmatic nickel-copper-PGE sulphide

Sudbury Integrated Nickel Operations - Fraser today

Where nickel is mined todayMining in Canada

Where next

Places

Located inGreater SudburySudbury Integrated Nickel Operations - Fraser is about 32 km from Greater Sudbury.1

Deposit types

An example ofMagmatic nickel-copper-PGE sulphideSudbury Integrated Nickel Operations - Fraser belongs to the magmatic nickel-copper-pge sulphide family of deposits.3

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. 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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