Birchtree Mine

Birchtree Mine
Location
Birchtree Mine is located in Manitoba
Birchtree Mine
Birchtree Mine
Location in Manitoba
LocationThompson
ProvinceManitoba
CountryCanada
Coordinates55°42′06″N 097°55′37″W / 55.70167°N 97.92694°W / 55.70167; -97.92694
Production
ProductsNickel
History
Opened1965
Active1965 - 1978
1988 - 2017
Closed2017
Owner
CompanyVale Inco
WebsiteVale Inco

Birchtree Mine is an underground nickel mine, owned and operated by Vale Inco in the city of Thompson, Manitoba, Canada.[1] It lies in the nickel containing Thompson Belt, a geologic feature associated with the Circum-Superior Belt large igneous province throughout the Superior craton.

  1. ^ Hersey, Carolyn (November 2008). "Safety, above all else". CIM Magazine. 3 (7). Montreal, Quebec, Canada: 5140–43. ISSN 1718-4177.