TABLE 2 |
CANADA: STRUCTURE OF THE MINERAL INDUSTRY IN 2003 |
|
(Thousand metric
tons unless otherwise specified) |
|
|
|
Major operating companies |
|
|
|
|
Commodity |
|
and major equity owners |
|
Location of main
facilities |
|
Annual capacity |
Aluminum |
|
|
Alcan Aluminum Ltd. |
|
Smelter in Laterriere, Quebec |
|
204. |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Smelter in Isle-Maligne, Quebec |
|
73. |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Smelter in Beauharnois, Quebec |
|
48. |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Smelter in Shawinigan, Quebec |
|
84. |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Smelter in Grande-Baie, Quebec |
|
180. |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Smelter in Arvida, Quebec |
|
232. |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Smelter in Kitimat, British Columbia |
|
272. |
Do. |
|
|
|
Alcan Inc. (Alcan
Aluminium Ltd., 56%, and |
|
Smelter in Alma, Quebec |
|
400. |
|
|
|
|
Aluisuisse Lonza Group Ltd., 44%) |
|
|
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Aluminiere de
Becancour Inc. (Pechiney Corp., |
|
Smelter in Beacancour, Quebec |
|
360. |
|
|
|
|
25%, and Quebec Government, 24.95%) |
|
|
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Canadian Reynolds Metals Co. Ltd.
(Reynolds |
|
Smelter in Baie-Comeau, Quebec |
|
400. |
|
|
|
|
Metals Co., 100%) |
|
|
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Aluminerie Alouette Inc. (Vereinigte
Aluminum- |
|
Smelter in Sept-Iles, Quebec |
|
218. |
|
Werke (VAW), Germany, 20%; Corus Group plc, |
|
|
Netherlands, 20%; Austria Metall (AMAG), |
|
|
Austria, 20%; La
Société Générale de |
|
|
Financement, Canada, 20%; Kobe Steel, 13.3%; |
|
|
|
|
|
Marubeni Corp., Japan, 6.7%) |
|
|
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Aluminerie Lauralco Inc. (Alumax Inc.,
United |
|
Deschambault, Quebec |
|
215. |
|
|
|
|
States) |
|
|
|
|
Asbestos |
|
|
LAB Chrysotile, Inc. (private, 100%). |
|
Black Lake, Quebec |
|
160 (fiber). |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Bell Mine, near Thetford Mines, Quebec |
|
70 (fiber). |
Do. |
|
|
|
Jeffrey Mine Inc. |
|
Jeffrey mines at Asbestos, Quebec |
|
250 (fiber). |
Cement |
|
|
Lafarge Canada Inc. |
|
Bath, Ontario |
|
1,045 (dry-process). |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Exshaw, Alberta |
|
1,029 (dry-process). |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Kamloops, British Columbia |
|
194 (dry-process). |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Richmond, British Columbia |
|
474 (wet-process). |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
St. Constant, Quebec |
|
991 (dry-process). |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Brookfield, Nova Scotia |
|
527 (dry-process). |
Do. |
|
|
|
St. Lawrence Cement Inc. (Independent
Cement |
|
Joliette, Quebec |
|
991 (dry-process). |
|
|
|
|
Inc.) |
|
|
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Mississauga, Ontario |
|
1,876 (wet and dry). |
Do. |
|
|
|
ESSROC
Canada Inc. |
|
St. Basile, Quebec |
|
1,124 (dry-process). |
Do. |
|
|
|
North Star Cement Ltd. |
|
Corner Brook, Newfoundland |
|
152 (dry-process). |
Do. |
|
|
|
Federal White Cement Ltd. |
|
Woodstock, Ontario |
|
170 (dry-process). |
Do. |
|
|
|
St. Marys Cement Corp. |
|
Bowmanville, Ontario |
|
1,550 (dry-process). |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
St. Marys, Ontario |
|
645 (dry-process). |
Do. |
|
|
|
Inland Cement Ltd. (S.A. Cimenteries
CBR) |
|
Edmonton, Alberta |
|
726 (dry-process). |
Do. |
|
|
|
Tilbury Cement Ltd. (S.A. Cimenteries
CBR) |
|
Delta, British Columbia |
|
1,040 (dry-process). |
Coal |
|
|
Quinsam Coal Corp. (Hillsborough
Resources Ltd., |
|
Quinsam Coal Mine at Campbell River, |
|
14,400 (open pit |
|
|
|
|
63%; Marubeni Corp., 33%; unknown, 4%) |
|
British Columbia |
|
and underground). |
Do. |
|
|
|
Cape Breton Development Corp.
(Government |
|
Sydney, Nova Scotia |
|
2,000 (underground). |
|
|
|
|
of Canada, 100%) |
|
|
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Luscar, Ltd. (Luscar Energy
Partnership) |
|
Obed Mountain Mine in Hinton, Alberta |
|
23,500 (open pit). |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Cheviot Mine in Hinton, Alberta |
|
16,500 (open pit). |
Do. |
|
|
|
Gregg River Resources Ltd. (Gregg
River Coal Inc., |
|
Gregg River Mine in Hinton, Alberta |
|
3,960 (open pit). |
|
|
|
|
60%, and 7 Japanese companies, 40%) |
|
|
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Manalta Coal Ltd. (Transalta Utilities
Corp.) |
|
Highvale Mine at Seba Beach, Alberta |
|
11,610 (open pit). |
Do. |
|
|
|
Smoky River Coal Ltd. (Smoky River
Holdings |
|
Grande Cache, Alberta |
|
3,600 (open pit and |
|
|
|
|
Ltd., 100%) |
|
|
|
underground). |
Columbium
(niobium) |
|
|
Niobec Ltd. (Cambior Inc., 50%, and
Sequoia |
|
Niobec Mine, Chicoutimi, Quebec |
|
3,500 tons per day |
|
Minerals Inc., 50%) |
|
(underground). |
See footnotes at
end of the table. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
TABLE 2--Continued |
CANADA: STRUCTURE OF THE MINERAL INDUSTRY IN 2003 |
|
(Thousand metric
tons unless otherwise specified) |
|
|
|
Major operating companies |
|
|
|
|
Commodity |
|
and major equity owners |
|
Location of main
facilities |
|
Annual capacity |
Copper |
|
|
Cassiar Mining Corp. (Princeton Mining
Corp., |
|
Similcom Mine in Princeton, British |
|
9,000. |
|
|
|
|
100%) |
|
Columbia (suspended in 1996) |
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Falconbridge Ltd. (Noranda Inc., 50%,
and Trelleborg |
|
Sudbury operations, Sudbury, Ontario |
|
4,250. |
|
|
|
|
AB, 50%) |
|
|
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Strathcona and Timmins operations in |
|
4,860. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Timmins, Ontario |
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Falconbridge Ltd. (Noranda Inc., 50%,
and Trelleborg |
|
Smelter in Timmins, Ontario |
|
440. |
|
|
|
|
AB, 50%) |
|
|
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Gibraltar
Mines Ltd. |
|
McLease Lake, British Columbia |
|
29. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(suspended) |
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Highland Valley Copper (Teck Cominco
Limited, |
|
Kamloops, British Columbia |
|
4,500. |
|
|
63.9%; BHP Billiton Ltd., 33.6%; others, 2.5%) |
|
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Inco Ltd. |
|
Thompson district, Manitoba |
|
Variable (polymetallic). |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Smelter in Sudbury, Ontario |
|
500. |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Refinery in Sudbury, Ontario |
|
170. |
Do. |
|
|
|
Noranda Inc. |
|
Smelter in Thompson, Manitoba |
|
686 (projected). |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Mines Gaspe, Murdochville, Quebec |
|
4,000 (ore). |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Horne Smelter in Noranda, Quebec |
|
770. |
Do. |
|
|
|
Huckleberry Mines Ltd. (Imperial
Metals Corp., |
|
Huckleberry Mine in Omineca, southeast |
|
37 (Cu contained). |
|
|
|
|
50%, and Japanese consortium, 50%) |
|
of Houston, British Columbia |
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Imperial Metals Corp. |
|
Mount Polley Mine at Williams Lake, |
|
17 (Cu contained). |
|
|
|
|
|
|
British Columbia |
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Northgate Exploration Ltd. |
|
Toodogone River, British Columbia |
|
28 (Cu contained). |
Diamond |
carats |
|
BHP Billiton Diamonds Inc. (BHP
Billiton |
|
Ekati Mine in Lac de Gras region, |
|
5,350,000. |
|
Group), 80%;
Charles Fipke, 10%; Stuart |
|
Northwest Territories |
|
|
Blossom, 10% |
|
|
|
Do. |
|
do. |
|
Diavik Diamond Mines Inc. (Rio Tinto plc), 60%, |
|
Diavik Mine in Yellowknife region, |
|
6,000,000. |
|
and Aber Diamond Mines Ltd. (Aber Diamond |
|
Northwest Territories |
|
|
Corporation), 40% |
|
|
|
Gold |
|
|
Barrick Gold Corp. |
|
Holt-McDermott Mine at Harker |
|
405 (ore). |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Township, Ontario |
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Bosquet Mines 1 and 2,
northwestern |
|
954 (ore). |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Quebec |
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Macassa Mine at Teck Township, |
|
473 (ore). |
|
|
|
|
|
|
northern Ontario |
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Princeton
Mining Corp. |
|
Similco Mine in Princeton, British |
|
450 (kilograms |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Columbia (suspended) |
|
metal). |
Do. |
|
|
|
Echo Bay Mines Ltd. |
|
Lupin Mine in Contwoyo Lake, |
|
612 (ore). |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Northwest Territories (suspended) |
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Royal Oak Mines Inc. |
|
Giant Mine in Yellowknife, Northwest |
|
407 (ore). |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Territories |
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Giant mill-tailings in Yellowknife, |
|
3,265 (ore). |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Northwest Territories |
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Hemlo Gold Mines Inc. (Noranda Inc.,
44.1%) |
|
Golden Giant Mine in Hemlo, Ontario |
|
1,080 (ore). |
Do. |
|
|
|
Placer Dome Inc. |
|
Campbell Mine in Red Lake, Ontario |
|
584 (ore). |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Detour Lake Mine in Northeast Ontario |
|
1,278 (ore) |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Dome Mine in South Porcupine, Ontario |
|
9.8 (tons metal). |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Sigma and Kiena Mines in Val d'Or, |
|
730 (ore). |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Quebec |
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Teck-Corona Corp. (Teck Corp., 100%) |
|
David Bell Mine in Hemlo, Ontario |
|
456 (ore). |
Do. |
|
|
|
Huckleberry Mines Ltd. (Imperial
Metals Corp., |
|
Huckleberry Mine in Omineca, southeast |
|
250 (kilograms metal). |
|
|
|
|
50%, and Japanese consortium, 50%) |
|
of Houston, British Columbia |
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Imperial Metals Corp. |
|
Mount Polley Mine in Williams Lake, |
|
3,100 (kilograms metal). |
|
|
|
|
|
|
British Columbia |
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Northgate Exploration Ltd. |
|
Toodogone River, British Columbia |
|
8,700 (kilograms metal). |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Graphite |
|
|
Strategic Exploration Inc. |
|
Kearney Lake, Ontario |
|
W. |
See footnotes at
end of the table. |
|
|
|
|
TABLE 2--Continued |
CANADA: STRUCTURE OF THE MINERAL INDUSTRY IN 2003 |
|
(Thousand metric
tons unless otherwise specified) |
|
|
|
Major operating companies |
|
|
|
|
Commodity |
|
and major equity owners |
|
Location of main
facilities |
|
Annual capacity |
Gypsum |
|
|
Atlantic Gypsum Resources Inc. |
|
Fischell Brook at St. George's, |
|
1,300. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Newfoundland |
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Georgia-Pacific Corp. |
|
River Denys, Sugar Camp, Nova Scotia |
|
1,460. |
Do. |
|
|
|
Little Narrows Gypsum Co. Ltd. (USG
Corp., 100%) |
|
Little Narrows, Nova Scotia |
|
1,640. |
Do. |
|
|
|
National Gypsum (Canada) Ltd. (Aancor Holdings |
|
Milford, Nova Scotia |
|
3,300. |
|
|
|
|
Corp., 100%) |
|
|
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Westroc Industries Ltd. |
|
Windermere, British Columbia |
|
1,170. |
Iron
and steel |
|
|
Iron Ore Company of Canada (North
Ltd., 56.1%; |
|
Carol Lake, Labrador |
|
8,800 (concentrate), |
|
Mitsubishi Corp., 25%; Labrador Iron Ore |
|
10,300 (pellets). |
|
|
|
|
Royalty Income Fund, 18.9%) |
|
|
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Quebec Cartier Mining Co. (Dofasco
Inc., 50%) |
|
Mount Wright, Quebec |
|
16,950 (concentrate), |
|
|
|
7,500 (acid
pellets), |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
657 (sinter). |
Do. |
|
|
|
Wabush Mines Ltd. (Stelco Inc., 37.9%;
Dofasco |
|
Wabush, Labrador, and Pointe Noire, |
|
6,200 (concentrate). |
|
Inc., 24.2%; Cliffs Mining Co., 22.8%; Acme |
|
Quebec |
|
|
|
|
|
Steel Co., 15.1%) |
|
|
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Dofasco Inc. |
|
Hamilton, Ontario |
|
3,642 (pig iron), |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4,500 (crude steel). |
Lead |
|
|
Brunswick Mining and Smelting Corp.
Ltd. |
|
No. 12 Mine in Bathurst and
smelter in |
|
72 (Pb contained). |
|
|
|
|
(Noranda Inc., 63.3%) |
|
Belledune, New Brunswick |
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Co.,
Ltd. |
|
Flin Flon and Snow Lake, Manitoba |
|
60 (Pb-Zn contained). |
|
|
|
|
(Anglo American plc., 100%) |
|
|
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Teck Cominco Limited |
|
Trail, British Columbia |
|
95 (refined lead). |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Sullivan Mine in Kimberly, British |
|
3,600 (ore). |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Columbia |
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Polaris Mine on Cornwallis Island, |
|
1,000 (ore). |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Northwest Territories |
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Breakwater Resources Ltd. |
|
Nanisivik Mine on Baffin Island, |
|
785 (ore). |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Northwest Territories |
|
|
Limestone |
|
|
Lafarge Canada Inc. |
|
Steep Rock, Manitoba |
|
906 (quarry). |
Do. |
|
|
|
Atlantic Industrial Minerals Inc. |
|
Iris Cove, Sydney, Nova Scotia |
|
720. |
Do. |
|
|
|
Inland Cement Ltd. (CBR Materials
Corp.) |
|
Cadomin, Alberta |
|
2,160. |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
do. |
|
2,160 (quarry). |
Do. |
|
|
|
Havelock Co. (Kickenson Mines Co.,
100%) |
|
Havelock, New Brunswick |
|
864 (limestone). |
Do. |
|
|
|
Continental Lime Ltd. |
|
Faulkner, Manitoba |
|
1,440 (crushed stone). |
Magnesium |
|
|
Magnola Metallurgy Inc. (Noranda Inc.,
80%, and |
|
Asbestos, Quebec |
|
58 (asbestos waste). |
|
|
|
|
Societe Generale de Financement du Quebec, 20%) |
|
|
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Timminco Ltd. |
|
Haley Station, Ottawa |
|
6 (smelter). |
Do. |
|
Norsk Hydro Canada Inc. |
|
Bécancour, Quebec |
|
48 (smelter). |
Molybdenum |
|
|
Huckleberry Mines Ltd. (Princeton
Mines Corp., |
|
Southeast of Houston, British Columbia |
|
635 (Mo contained). |
|
|
|
|
60%, and Japanese consortium, 40%) |
|
|
|
|
Nickel |
|
|
Falconbridge Ltd. (Noranda Inc.,
46.4%, and |
|
Craig, Fraser, Lindsley, and Lockerby |
|
54 (metal contained). |
|
|
|
|
underwriting syndicate, 28.3%) |
|
in Sudbury district, Ontario |
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Raglan Mine in Ungave, Quebec |
|
21 (metal contained). |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Smelter in Falconbridge, Ontario |
|
45 (rated capacity). |
Do. |
|
|
|
Inco Limited |
|
Frood, Stobie, Creighton, Copper Cliff |
|
106 (metal contained). |
|
North and South, Garson-Offsets, |
|
|
McCreedy East and West, Coleman, |
|
|
Crean Hill, and Totten in Sudbury |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
district, Ontario |
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Smelter in Sudbury, Ontario |
|
110 (metal contained). |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Refinery in Sudbury, Ontario |
|
57 (metal contained). |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Refinery in Port Colborne, Ontario |
|
30 (metal contained). |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Thompson, Birchtree Mines in Manitoba |
|
62 (metal contained). |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Smelter in Thompson, Manitoba |
|
82 (metal contained). |
Do. |
|
|
|
Sherritt International Corp. |
|
Refinery in Fort Saskachewan, Alberta |
|
24 (metal contained). |
See footnotes at
end of the table. |
|
|
|
|
|
TABLE 2--Continued |
CANADA: STRUCTURE OF THE MINERAL INDUSTRY IN 2003 |
|
(Thousand metric
tons unless otherwise specified) |
|
|
|
Major operating companies |
|
|
|
|
Commodity |
|
and major equity owners |
|
Location of main
facilities |
|
Annual capacity |
Petroleum
and natural gas:1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Natural
gas |
million cubic meters |
|
BP Canada Inc. (The British Petroleum Co. plc, |
|
Noel Area, northern Alberta; Chauvin, |
|
47. |
|
|
|
|
London, 100%) |
|
Sibbald, North Pembina, Alberta |
|
|
Crude
oil |
million 42-gallon |
|
do. |
|
do. |
|
12. |
|
|
barrels |
|
|
|
|
|
Do. |
|
do. |
|
Gulf Canada Corp. (Olympia & York |
|
Fenn-Big Valley, Swan Hills, Goose |
|
18. |
|
|
|
|
Developments, 80%, and Gulf, 20%) |
|
River, Peerless,
and Sene, Alberta |
|
|
Do. |
|
do. |
|
Home Oil Co. Ltd. (Interhome Energy
Inc., 100%) |
|
Red Earth, Garrington, Cherhill, |
|
11.5. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Medicine River, and Swan Hills, Alberta |
|
|
Natural
gas |
billion cubic meters |
|
do. |
|
do. |
|
1.8. |
Crude
oil |
thousand 42-gallon |
|
Imperial Oil Ltd. (Exxon Mobil Corp., 70%, and |
|
Judy Creek, Cold Lake, Alberta; |
|
670. |
|
barrels |
|
others, 30%) |
|
Mackenzie Delta, Beaufort Sea, Yukon |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
and Northwest Territories |
|
|
Natural
gas |
million cubic meters |
|
do. |
|
do. |
|
36.4. |
Crude
oil |
million 42-gallon |
|
Mobil Oil Canada Ltd. (Exxon Mobil
Corp., |
|
Hibernia, Grand Banks, southeast of |
|
26.1. |
|
barrels |
|
100%) |
|
Newfoundland and Sable Island, Nova |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Scotia, and others in Alberta |
|
|
Natural
gas |
billion cubic meters |
|
do. |
|
do. |
|
3.0. |
Crude
oil |
million 42-gallon |
|
Mobil Oil Canada Ltd. (Exxon Mobil
Corp., |
|
Terra Nova, near to Hibernia, Jeanne |
|
25.0. |
|
|
barrels |
|
100%) |
|
d'Arc Basin, Newfoundland |
|
|
Natural
gas |
billion cubic meters |
|
do. |
|
do. |
|
2.0. |
Crude
oil |
million 42-gallon |
|
Norcen Energy Resources Ltd. (Hollinger Inc., |
|
Pembina, Bodo, Majorville, Alberta |
|
12.1. |
|
|
barrels |
|
59%, and Hees International, 41%) |
|
|
|
|
Do. |
|
do. |
|
Oakwood Petroleums Ltd. (Sceptre
Resources Ltd., |
|
Grantham, Hays Ronalane, Peace River, |
|
24.6. |
|
|
|
100%) |
|
Normandville,
Randell, Alberta; and |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Grizzly Valley, British Columbia |
|
|
Do. |
|
do. |
|
PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd. (Canadian
Pacific |
|
Rycroft, Wembley, Elk Point, Rio
Bravo, |
|
19.7. |
|
|
|
|
Enterprises, 87%, and others, 13%) |
|
Alberta |
|
|
Natural
gas |
billion cubic meters |
|
do. |
|
do. |
|
3.53. |
Crude
oil |
million 42-gallon |
|
Shell Canada Ltd. (Shell Investments,
79%, and |
|
Dimsdale, Little Smoky Lake, Sousa, |
|
22.2. |
|
|
barrels |
|
others, 21%) |
|
Alberta; Midale, Benson, Saskatchewan |
|
|
Natural
gas |
billion cubic meters |
|
do. |
|
do. |
|
6.53. |
Crude
oil |
million 42-gallon |
|
Suncor Inc. (Sun Co. Inc., United
States, 75%, and |
|
Kidney, Zama Lake, Cosway, Albersun |
|
4.1. |
|
barrels |
|
Ontario Energy Resources, 25%) |
|
Prevo, and Medicine River, Alberta; and |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Leitchville, Unwin, Saskatchewan |
|
|
Do. |
|
thousand 42-gallon |
|
Texaco Canada Petroleum
Inc. (Texaco Inc., |
|
Eaglesham, Virgo, Alberta; and Desan, |
|
158. |
|
|
barrels |
|
United States, 78%, and others, 22%) |
|
British Columbia |
|
|
Natural
gas |
million cubic meters |
|
do. |
|
do. |
|
67.3. |
Crude
oil |
million 42-gallon |
|
UNOCAL Canada Ltd. (UNOCAL Corp.,
United |
|
Calgary, Alberta |
|
14.7. |
|
|
barrels |
|
States, 100%) |
|
|
|
|
Potash
(K2O equivalent): |
|
|
Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc.
(PCS) (private, |
|
Lanigan, near Lanigan, Saskatchewan |
|
3,828 (KCl). |
|
|
|
|
37%, and Provincial government, 63%) |
|
|
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Rocanville, southeast Saskatchewan |
|
2,295 (KCl). |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Allan Division, Allan, Saskatchewan |
|
5,256 (KCl). |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Cory, near Saskatoon, Saskatchewan |
|
1,361 (KCl). |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Sussex, New Brunswick |
|
800 (KCl). |
Do. |
|
International Minerals & Chemical Corp. (Canada) |
|
Esterhazy, southeast Saskatchewan |
|
951 (KCl). |
|
Ltd.
[IMC Fertilizer Corp., 75%, and Potash Corp. |
|
|
of Saskatchewan Inc. (PCS), 25%] |
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Agrium Products Inc. |
|
Vanscoy, Saskatchewan |
|
1,750 (KCl). |
Salt
and brine operations |
|
|
The Canadian Salt Co. |
|
Pugwash, Nova Scotia |
|
1,400
(rock salt and |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
brine salt). |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Iles-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec |
|
1,625 (rock salt). |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Ojibway, Ontario |
|
2,600 (rock salt). |
See footnotes at
end of the table. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
TABLE 2--Continued |
CANADA: STRUCTURE OF THE MINERAL INDUSTRY IN 2003 |
|
(Thousand metric
tons unless otherwise specified) |
|
|
|
Major operating companies |
|
|
|
|
Commodity |
|
and major equity owners |
|
Location of main
facilities |
|
Annual capacity |
Silver |
|
|
Prime Resources Group Inc. |
|
Eskay Creek Mine in British Columbia |
|
340. |
Do. |
|
|
|
Breakwater Resources Ltd. |
|
Caribou Mine in Bathurst, New |
|
7.5 (tons mill feed). |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Brunswick |
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Kinross Gold Corp. |
|
Macassa Mine in Ontario |
|
438 (mill feed). |
Do. |
|
|
|
Barrick Gold Corp. |
|
Bousquet Mine in Quebec |
|
876 (mill feed). |
Do. |
|
|
|
Similco Mines Ltd. |
|
Princeton, British Columbia
(suspended) |
|
8,250
(Ag-Au-Cu |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
concentrate). |
Sodium
chlorate production |
|
Dow Chemical Canada Inc. (Dow Chemical
Co., |
|
Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta |
|
524 (caustic soda). |
using
salt |
|
|
100%) |
|
|
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Sarnia, Ontario |
|
350 (caustic soda). |
Do. |
|
|
|
General Chemical Canada Ltd. |
|
Amherstburg, Ontario |
|
363 (sodium carbonate). |
Sulfur: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Petroleum
refinery capacities |
|
Consumer's
Cooperative Refineries Ltd. (Federated |
|
Regina, Saskatchewan |
|
54. |
|
|
|
|
Cooperatives Ltd., 100%) |
|
|
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Esso Petroleum Canada (ExxonMobil
Corp., 100%) |
|
Sarnia, Ontario |
|
50. |
Do. |
|
|
|
Sulconam Inc. (Petro Canada, 7.6%) |
|
Montreal, Quebec |
|
108. |
Main sulfur extraction plants |
|
Amoco Canada Petroleum Co., Ltd.
(Amoco Corp., |
|
East Crossfield-Elkton, Alberta |
|
650. |
(sour
gas and oil sands) |
|
|
100%) |
|
|
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Canadian Occidental Petroleum, Ltd. |
|
East Calgany-Crossfield, Alberta |
|
610. |
Do. |
|
|
|
Chevron Canada Resources Inc.
(ChevronTexaco |
|
Kaybob South III, Alberta |
|
1,281. |
|
|
|
|
Corp., 100%) |
|
|
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Husky Oil Ltd. |
|
Ram River, Ricinus, Alberta |
|
1,646. |
Do. |
|
|
|
Shell Canada Ltd. |
|
Waterton, Alberta |
|
1,120. |
Principal
SO2 and H2SO4 |
|
|
Canadian Electro Zinc Ltd. (CEZ)
(Noranda Inc., |
|
Valleyfield, Quebec |
|
430 (H2SO4). |
production
capacities |
|
|
90.17%) |
|
|
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Inco Ltd. |
|
Copper Cliff, Ontario |
|
950 (H2SO4). |
Do. |
|
|
|
Falconbridge Ltd. (Noranda Inc., 50%,
and Trelleborg |
|
Kidd Creek, Ontario |
|
690 (H2SO4). |
|
|
|
|
AB, 50%) |
|
|
|
|
Do. |
|
ESSO Chemical Canada (ExxonMobil Corp., 100%) |
|
Redwater, Alberta |
|
910 (H2SO4). |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Titanium
slag |
|
|
QIT-Fer et Titane Inc. (Rio Tinto,
100%). |
|
Sorel-Tracy, Quebec |
|
1,100 (Sorelslag), |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
250 (UGS slag). |
Uranium |
|
|
Cogema Resources Inc. |
|
Cluff Lake, Saskatchewan |
|
1,815 metric tons (metal). |
Do. |
|
|
|
Cameco Corp. (Cameco Corp., 50.025%;
COGEMA |
|
Cigar Lake, Saskatchewan |
|
6,500 metric tons (oxide). |
|
|
Resources Inc., 37.1%; Idemitsu Inc., 7.875%; |
|
|
|
|
|
TEPCO Inc., 5.0%). |
|
|
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Key Lake, Saskatchewan |
|
6,395
metric tons (oxide). |
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Rabbit Lake, Saskachewan |
|
5,445 metric tons (oxide).
|
Zinc |
|
|
Breakwater Resources Ltd. |
|
Nanisivik Mine on Baffin Island, |
|
60 (Zn contained). |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Northwest Territories |
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Bathurst, New Brunswick |
|
1,100 (Zn in |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
concentrate). |
Do. |
|
|
|
Brunswick Mining and Smelting Corp.
Ltd. |
|
do. |
|
232 (Zn in |
|
|
|
|
(Noranda Inc., 100%) |
|
|
|
concentrate). |
Do. |
|
|
|
Falconbridge Ltd. (Noranda Inc.,
49.9%) |
|
Timmins operations and smelter in |
|
212 (Pb-Zn contained), |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Timmins, Ontario |
|
133 (slab zinc). |
Do. |
|
|
|
Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Co.
Ltd. (Anglo |
|
Snow Lake concentrator, Manitoba |
|
1,125 (Pb-Zn ore). |
|
|
|
|
American plc., 100%) |
|
|
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Flin Flon Mine and Smelter in Manitoba |
|
115 (slab zinc). |
Do. |
|
|
|
Teck Cominco Limited |
|
Sullivan Mine in Kimberley, British |
|
70 (Pb-Zn contained). |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Columbia |
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
do. |
|
Smelter in Trail, British Columbia |
|
300 (slab zinc). |
Do. |
|
|
|
Boliden Ltd. |
|
Myra Falls Mine in Strathcona |
|
110 (Zn ore). |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Provincial Park, British Columbia |
|
|
Do. |
|
|
|
Noranda Inc. |
|
Bell Allard Mine in Matagami, Quebec |
|
85 (Pb-Zn ore). |
W Withheld to avoid
disclosing company proprietary data. |
1Projections of annual capacity involve matching decline curves
against later discoveries and are generalized extrapolations only based on
data presented in the |
Canadian Oil and
Gas Handbook, 2001 and subsequent years.
Ownership of various companies and proportionate participation in
various leaseblocks and/or joint |
ventures changes
continually. The ownership
proportions shown here must be considered to be illustrative only. |
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