The Kidd Creek copper-zinc-silver deposit is located in Timmins, Ontario.

The Kidd Mine is focused on developing and sustaining economic mining plans for the Kidd Creek ore body, which is currently mined through two separate shafts known as No. 2 and No. 4. Production operations reached a depth of 9,200 feet (2,800m) in 2009, making the operation the deepest base metal mine in the world.

In the last few years Xstrata Copper has made a commitment to invest more than US$100 million in the Kidd Mine to expand the work site.

In December 2011 Xstrata Copper announced the completion of a US$111 million extension to the Kidd Mine. The extension to the mining zone at Mine D to 9,600 feet will extend operations by at least two years to the first half of 2018.

Copper concentrates are produced at the Kidd Metallurgical site, 27 kilometres southeast of the mine site.

Brief History of the Operation

Xstrata Copper and its predecessors have been mining the Kidd Creek copper/zinc deposits since 1966.