Milling and Smelting the Sudbury Nickel Ores

Library and Archives Canada: 35mm, 16mm, VHS, digibeta.
"Beginning with a brief history of the earth and the Sudbury Ore Body, this film uses micro-photography, animation, and actuality footage to explain and illustrate, step-by-step, the processing of ore in the Sudbury, Ontario plants of the International Nickel Company of Canada Ltd. Footage shows the magnetic separation of massive and disseminated ores and the smelting of the massive ore; the grinding, classifying, flotation, thickening, concentration, roasting, calcining, and melting of the disseminated ores; the Bessemer Convertor treatment of the re-united ores; the casting, crushing, and re-grinding of the cast metal; the magnetic separation of its constituent elements; the sintering of nickel; the smelting of copper in Inco's new oxygen flash smelting furnace; and the recovery of iron ore by ammonia leeching. The process is explained with the help of a flow chart to which the film returns regularly. Footage also includes shots of a nearby Canadian Industries Limited plant where Inco's sulphur is recovered and processed."

University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta: 16mm.
"Depicts the milling-smelting operations employed in Inco. Describes the history, formation and components of these ores and shows how new metallurgical developments facilitate the recovery of valuable elements from material that once was waste. Animated sequences."
From the Catalogue of 16mm Educational Motion Pictures. Published by the Educational Media Division, Department of Extension, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 1967.