A majority of Canada's copper deposits are found in British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec. The newly merged Teck Cominco is one of Canada's largest base metal producers and has several base metal operations in Canada. The Polaris mine in the North Western Territories is the world's most northern mine. One of the world's largest nickel companies, Inco produces copper and cobalt as a co product of its Sudbury operations in Canada. Falconbridge operates the Kid Creek copper zinc mine in Ontario, Canada, as well as the Sudbury nickel-copper mines.
Most operations are in British Columbia in Canada.
InMet Mining Corporation operates the wholly owned Troilus copper gold mine in Canada. European miner, Boliden has a copper zinc mine on Vancouver Island, British Colombia, Canada. Mexico Mexico produced 344 000t copper in 2000, representing a drop from 1999. Grupo Mexico is Mexico's largest mining company. The Group principally engages in the mining and processing of copper, zinc, silver gold, molybdenum and lead.