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Voisey's Bay mine

Voisey's Bay mine, Canada. Producing, open pit and underground, mining nickel, copper, cobalt since 2005.

Why Voisey's Bay is famous

Voisey's Bay in Newfoundland and Labrador is a nickel-copper-cobalt mine. Vale's 2025 annual report gives a start year of 2005, a Vale interest of 90 per cent and a projected end of reserves in 2039. Vale's nickel operations in Sudbury, Thompson and Voisey's Bay made 89,600 t of nickel in 2020, 54 per cent of Canada's mined nickel.1,2,3

Story cards

What kind of deposit

Magmatic nickel-copper-PGE sulphide

Voisey's Bay today

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

Where next

People

Discovered byRobert FriedlandDiamond Fields' geologists found nickel at Voisey's Bay under his lead.4

Mines

Same kind of depositKambalda nickelNickel sulphide mines of two eras: Kambalda from 1967, Voisey's Bay from 2005.5

Deposit types

An example ofMagmatic nickel-copper-PGE sulphideVoisey's Bay belongs to the magmatic nickel-copper-pge sulphide family of deposits.6

Sources

  1. Annual Report on Form 20-F for 2025 Vale S.A. (SEC)
  2. 2020-21 Minerals Yearbook, Canada (advance release) US Geological Survey
  3. Voisey's Bay Mine (Q7939793) Wikidata
  4. Robert Friedland Canadian Mining Hall of Fame
  5. Kambalda nickel history State Library of Western Australia
  6. 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).