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Nickel Nickel is a chemical element with symbol Ni and atomic number 28. It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge. Nickel is a hard and ductile transition metal. Pure nickel is chemically reactive but large pieces are slow to ...

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copper Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu (from la, cuprum) and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a pinkis ...

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open pit Open-pit mining, also known as open-cast or open-cut mining and in larger contexts mega-mining, is a surface mining technique of extracting rock or minerals from the earth from an open-air pit, sometimes known as a borrow. This form of mining ...

, greatest depth = , discovery year = 1883 , opening year = {{Start date, 1889 , active years = 1889–94
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nickel Nickel is a chemical element with symbol Ni and atomic number 28. It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge. Nickel is a hard and ductile transition metal. Pure nickel is chemically reactive but large pieces are slow to ...

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. It was the site of the original ore discovery that led to the launch of mining operations in the

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area. The Murray Mine was discovered in August 1883 by Thomas Flanagan, a blacksmith on the

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construction gang. The property at Lot 11, Concession V, McKim Township, was patented to James Loghrin, Henry Abbott and

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and William Murray in October 1884. They in turn sold it to

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, who worked it from 1889 to 1894 when the mine was closed down. The British American Nickel Corporation, Limited, purchased the property in 1912, sinking the shaft to a depth of 700 feet by the time the mine closed in August 1914. The mine reopened in August 1916 and dewatered, the shaft had been deepened to 1,075' by 1920. Murray Mine shut down in February 1921, in that period 277,484 tons of ore had been shipped. Reopening in 1923 the mine produced 267,535 tons before the mine again closed in July 1924.

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purchased the Murray Mine from the bondholders of the defunct

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in 1925. No. 2 Shaft was sunk between 1941 and 1943. Production was continuous from 1950 to 1971 when the mine was last worked. The Murray Mine site is located on Municipal Road 35 between Godfrey Road and

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. A historical plaque commemorates the site.

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