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Nickel Winning : The Story of Nickel Underground Mining

Item number (ISN):

60504

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1949

Item number (ISN):

60504

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

INCO LIMITED

Accession:

1986-0384

Media:

Film

Original title:

Nickel Winning : The Story of Nickel Underground Mining

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1949

Release date:

1949

Production company:

Douglas D. Rothacker (Producer)

Production credit:

producer, Douglas D. Rothacker

Country of production:

cn

Sponsor:

The International Nickel Company of Canada, Limited

Distributor name:

The International Nickel Company of Canada, Limited

Description:

This film explains the process of modified square set and fill mining in a Sudbury, Ontario area mine of the International Nickel Company of Canada, Limited. Footage shows workers sinking the main shaft; trimming timbers; sending equipment and men down by hoist; suiting up for a shift; drilling drifts and crosscuts; setting explosives; clearing ore by mechanical mucking machine, hard, and slusher hoist; placing timbers; and filling a stope with waste rock. Other sequences detail the making of drill bits and rods, and outline the quality of life of an Inco miner. A map indicates the locations of Inco operations in the Sudbury Basin: the Levack, Murray, Garson, and Creighton Mines; the Frood and Stobie Mines, and open pits; Copper Cliff; and Sudbury. <21mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Approved for educational purposes by the Audio-Visual Aids Committee of the Ontario Educational Association in 1949.

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Vault ISN:

84973

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8807-0047

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Max. shrinkage:

0.7%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

84986

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8807-0048

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Max. shrinkage:

0.7%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

117503

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8906-0053

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

125837

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8907-0007

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

527181

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2010-11-0012

Number of items:

1

Duration:

102:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

527182

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2010-11-0012

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

102:00

Made from:

8807-0048
8808-0075
2003-05-0475
2003-05-0476
2003-05-0477

Status:

MASTER
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8906-0053
V1 8907-0007
V1 2010-11-0012

Restrictions on consultation:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Donor restrictions:

The permission of the donor, INCO, is required to reproduce this title.

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright probably rests with INCO, but may rest with Douglas D. Rothacker.

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Donor / Avec la permission écrite du donateur

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