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Raglan mine

Raglan mine, Canada. Producing, mining nickel, cobalt, copper.

Why Raglan is famous

Raglan is a nickel mine in Nunavik, northern Quebec, in the Ungava region. Glencore's Sudbury and Raglan mines together produced 56,500 t of nickel in 2020. USGS lists a cobalt capacity of 700 t a year and a copper capacity of 7,000 t a year.1,2

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What kind of deposit

Magmatic nickel-copper-PGE sulphide

Raglan today

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

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Deposit types

An example ofMagmatic nickel-copper-PGE sulphideRaglan belongs to the magmatic nickel-copper-pge sulphide family of deposits.3

Sources

  1. 2020-21 Minerals Yearbook, Canada (advance release) US Geological Survey
  2. data/minerals/operations.csv (modern operations table) prospectortrails.com internal data
  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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Pictures: Elektrisk malmletning. Undersökningar på Billiton, 1920., Okänd / Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Falu gruva, Lundberg, Bengt A / Europeana (CC0 1.0).