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Record information – Brief Nickel Winning : The Story of Nickel Underground Mining
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1949Item number (ISN):60504Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:INCO LIMITEDAccession:1986-0384Media:FilmOriginal title:Nickel Winning : The Story of Nickel Underground MiningPart:1 of 1Production date:1949Release date:1949Production company:Douglas D. Rothacker (Producer)Production credit:producer, Douglas D. RothackerCountry of production:cnSponsor:The International Nickel Company of Canada, LimitedDistributor name:The International Nickel Company of Canada, LimitedDescription: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:EnglishNotes:Detailed holdings information: -
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