File MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 12 - Photographs of tailings sites around Sudbury

Photograph of an active tailings site at Copper Cliff, near Sudbury, Ontario Photograph of wooden corrosion-resistant tailing slurry pipes, Copper Cliff, near Sudbury, Ontario Photograph of an active tailings pond at Copper Cliff, near Sudbury, Ontario Photograph of an active tailings pond at Copper Cliff, near Sudbury, Ontario Photograph of sparse mugwort (Artemesia) growing at a tailings site at Nickel Rim, near Sudbury, ... Photograph of natural reclamation of a tailings site at Falconbridge, near Sudbury, Ontario Photograph of natural reclamation of a tailings site at Falconbridge, near Sudbury, Ontario Photograph of an active tailings site at Copper Cliff, near Sudbury, Ontario Photograph of a tailings site at Copper Cliff, near Sudbury, Ontario Photograph of a slag heap drainage pond at Coniston, near Sudbury, Ontario Photograph of an active tailings pond at Copper Cliff, near Sudbury, Ontario Photograph of sparse vegetation regrowth at a tailings site at Copper Cliff, near Sudbury, Ontario Photograph of a eight months of vegetation regrowth at a small controlled site at Nickel Rim, nea... Photograph of red-stained roast bed remnants and hillside tree recovery at Nickel Rim, near Sudbu... Photograph of an access point to the Coniston mining site, near Sudbury, Ontario Photograph of red-stained rock face in a roast bed at Nickel Rim, near Sudbury, Ontario Photograph of vegetation at Richard Lake, 12 kilometres from the Inco superstack at Copper Cliff,... Photograph of an unidentified person examining tailings piles at Copper Cliff, near Sudbury, Ontario Photograph of controlled stinkweed (Artemisia tilesii) regrowth in a tailings site at Nickel Rim,... Photograph of controlled stinkweed (Artemisia tilesii) regrowth in a tailings site at Nickel Rim,... Photograph of an old roast bed after fifty years, Nickel Rim site, near Sudbury, Ontario Photograph of Lynne Brennan sitting on the shore of the Wanapitei River, near Sudbury, Ontario Photograph of slag being poured at the Nickel Rim mining site near Sudbury, Ontario Photograph of white birch at Richard Lake, near Sudbury, Ontario Photograph of red maple at Falconbridge, near Sudbury, Ontario Photograph of a tailings pond at Copper Cliff, near Sudbury, Ontario Photograph of Deschampsia grasses growing in tailings near Sudbury, Ontario Photograph of an unidentified person standing in a growth of common reed (Phragmites communis) at... Photograph of houses and flats near the Coniston mining site, near Sudbury, Ontario Photograph of a tombstone near the Falconbridge mining site, near Sudbury, Ontario Photograph of slag heaps near a denuded slope junction, Coniston mining site, near Sudbury, Ontario Photograph of wideleaf polargrass (Arctagrostis latifolia) growing in a slag heap at a tailings s... Photograph of a flooded access road to the Burwash mining site, near Sudbury, Ontario Photograph of Lynne Brennan standing in a field near the Burwash site, near Sudbury, Ontario Photograph of tailings plant growth experiments without using a gravel base, Nickel Rim, near Sud... Photograph of controlled plant growth with slag heap material at a tailings site at Nickel Rim, n...

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Photographs of tailings sites around Sudbury

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MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 12

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  • 1975-1986 (Creation)

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36 photographs : col. slides ; 35 mm

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Freedman, Bill
(1950 - 2015)

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File contains 36 photographs taken by Bill Freedman in the area around Sudbury, Ontario, between 1975 and 1986 (many of which were used as part of his thesis fieldwork). Photographs show tailings ponds, nickel runs, roast beds, and slag pouring at the Coppercliff, Burwash, Coniston, Richard Lake, and Falconbridge sites.

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bill-freedman-fonds.pdf

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Metal slide box was discarded during archival processing.

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Slides were originally held in a tan metal slide box with handwritten label: "Sudbury Forestry". They were stored in compartments 6-8, titled "Tailings" (6-7) and "O'Donnell Roast Bed" (8), as per Freedman's penciled location key.

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