Mining
Production at Emily Ann begun in late 2001, with the mine being owned by LionOre Mining International. Maggie Hays, 3 km south of Emily Ann, at that time, was owned partly by LionOre and BHP Billiton. Mining at the deposit was started after the conclusion of the ramping up of Emily Ann.
LionOre was taken over by MMC Norilsk Nickel in June 2007 and, with it, all its Australian operations.
Norilsk suspended all Australian nickel operations, consisting of Emily Ann, Maggie Hays, the Black Swan nickel mine, the Cawse nickel mine and the Waterloo nickel mine in early 2009 because of drastically falling nickel prices.
Read more about this topic: Emily Ann And Maggie Hays Nickel Mines
Famous quotes containing the word mining:
“It’s a mining town in lotus land.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish or a German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making “ladies” dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)
“In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining for the metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)