30 foot Canada nickel in Ontario. "The idea for the Big Nickel began in 1963 when Ted Szilva, at the time a 28-year-old City of Sudbury fireman, read about a contest in the Sudbury Star. The contest, sponsored by the Sudbury Canada Centennial Committee, chaired by Maurice Lacourciere, requested that citizens of Sudbury forward suggestions on how they would like to see the City of Sudbury celebrate the Canadian Centennial. Among the many entries, Szilva put forward the suggestion for a major tourist attraction featuring a giant replica of a five-cent coin, an underground mine and a mining science centre. Szilva’s idea was rejected because the committee felt that "it did not have sufficient use for the citizens of Sudbury as such"." More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Nickel
i would only visit it if it was a solid plate that you can walk on and actually see the hand carvings into the face.
Is there a major nickel mine near Sudbury, (nickel, as in the mineral)? I thought I heard somewhere that the largest deposits of nickel in the world are in Canada. Nickel is what they make turbofan blades out of, for jet engines.
Nickel and copper are the primary metals but cobalt and precious metals, such as gold, silver, platinum and palladium are also produced. MINING There are two underground nickel-copper mines in Sudbury: Nickel Rim South and Fraser. The Nickel Rim South mine is currently Sudbury’s largest mining operation. MILLING The Strathcona concentrator receives ore from the two Sudbury mines as well as third-party custom feed ores and produces two concentrate streams – a nickel-copper concentrate that goes to the Sudbury Smelter for smelting and a copper concentrate that goes to Glencore Copper for smelting and refining. The mill has a maximum capacity of approximately 2.75 million tonnes of ore per year. SMELTING The Sudbury Smelter currently smelts Glencore Nickel nickel-copper concentrate from the Sudbury, Raglan and XNA (Australia) operations and processes custom-feed materials in the form of concentrates and secondary products. It is capable of producing 95,000 tonnes of nickel, copper and cobalt in matte annually. The smelted and granulated matte is sent by rail to large port facilities in Québec City, then shipped overseas to Nikkelverk in Norway for refining into pure metals.
I'm terribly sorry for making you feel some type of way i meant stainless steel for the jets blades... you can't dig out stainless steel. its a grade of steel . haha
There are lots of exonumia out there, that celebrate Sudbury's 'Big Nickel' http://www.ebay.ca/itm/SUDBURY-ONTA...E-VI-MEDALLION-TOKEN-NICE-CAMEO-/201026509995 http://www.ebay.ca/itm/SUDBURY-ONTA...KEL-SMELTER-MEDALLION-Bz-type-2-/171287025885 Even some jewellery... http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Vintage-Ster...-Ontario-Bracelet-Charm-Pendant-/370918971545
And typically contains either a larger amount of Nickel, and/or chromium. In fact it is possible to have stainless steel with no iron (steel) in it.
