Ringer, great post..
Love the last paragraph..
“The Ring of Fire is certainly a huge opportunity for Ontario Northland so certainly if the Ferrochrome site is in Timmins it is right on our rail line and would be in the Glencore site so when that end of life mine goes to zero in 2021, then that smelter would come in and take that place,” she said.
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But rather than buying new materials and building a brand new smelter site, Coutts said Noront wants to see how these communities can re-purpose old infrastructures that are no longer in use.
"There's so much idle infrastructure in northern Ontario that can be re-used," Coutts said
"It's good for the environment and it's also cheap; it saves money because you don't have to re-build those infrastructure pieces."
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This article below is from 2011..Kidd is not going unti 2021..but notice this part:
In May of this year, however, Xstrata closed the Kidd smelting plant, taking 670 jobs with it. The concentrate is now shipped into Quebec to Xstrata’s Hoyle plant – now the only copper smelter operating in Canada. The Province of Ontario is launching a $225,000 feasibility study looking for future uses for the Kidd smelter facility."
I wonder what the " 225K feasibility study" turned up?
http://www.republicofmining.com/2011/11/02/2020-vision-for-the-timmins-kidd-mine-by-david-hicks-the-global-commodities-report-october-2011/
