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Miner

1966 19 min
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Impressions of a hardrock miner's life, suitable for the classroom, filmed at the Falconbridge Nickel Mine at Sudbury, Ontario, and showing also the increasing use of nickel in today's space age. Much of what is shown was filmed in the dim world far underground where, "in a bubble of air in a solid mass of rock," the miner drills the ore face.

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Impressions of a hardrock miner's life, suitable for the classroom, filmed at the Falconbridge Nickel Mine at Sudbury, Ontario, and showing also the increasing use of nickel in today's space age. Much of what is shown was filmed in the dim world far underground where, "in a bubble of air in a solid mass of rock," the miner drills the ore face.

  • director
    Robin Spry
  • writer
    Robin Spry
  • producer
    John Kemeny
  • photography
    Thomas Vamos
  • editing
    Michael McKennirey
  • commentary
    Strowan Robertson
  • sound recording
    Roger Hart
  • sound editing
    Victor Merrill
  • music editing
    Donald Douglas
  • re-recording
    Ron Alexander
    Roger Lamoureux

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