Notre histoire

Edmund Horne’s first trip to the Lac Osisko area

Horne’s fourth trip and first staking of 70 acres

Fifth trip and discovery of gold deposit

Noranda created on May 1

First diamond drilling and discovery of a copper deposit

Construction of smelting plant and drilling of production well No. 3 begin

First copper cast on December 17

Continuous smelting plant (reactor) starts production

Final tonne of ore extracted from Horne Mine on July 26. Total production for Horne Mine from 1926 to 1976: 53.7 million metric tonnes of ore, 1.131 million metric tonnes of copper, 325,240 kg of gold, 693,600 kg of silver

Construction and start-up of electronics recycling circuit

Sulfuric acid plant begins production

Automatic casting wheel starts up in July

Noranda converter becomes operational in November. Gallen Mine (zinc) reopens

Glencore acquires Xstrata. Horne Smelter now belongs to one of the world’s largest diversified natural resource companies

Horne Smelter becomes certified as ISO 14001:2015 compliant in environmental management

On December 17, 2017, Horne Smelter celebrated the 90th anniversary of its first casting. Over these 90 years, the smelter produced: 12,404,390 tonnes of copper, 40,614,617 ounces of gold, 847,040,998 ounces of silver

Construction begins for VELOX pilot project

VELOX pilot project commissioned