Fire Lake | |
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Lac Fire (French) | |
Location | Rivière-Mouchalagane, Quebec, Canada |
Coordinates | 52°20′13″N 67°21′41″W / 52.336913°N 67.361417°W |
Basin countries | Canada |
Max. length | 2.6 kilometres (1.6 mi) |
Max. width | 800 metres (2,600 ft) |
Fire Lake (French: Lac Fire) is a lake in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada. It was the location of a major open pit mining operation in the 1970s and 1980s. Operations were then suspended for twenty years, but ArcelorMittal resumed extraction in 2006.