Coniston lies 8 mile east of Sudburry. The plant has be built by the "Mond Nickel Company" in 1912, to replace the Victoria Mine Smelter. It consists of a Sintering Department, containing two Dwight Lloyd straight line sintering machines, a Roast yard of 120,000 tons capacity, a Smelting Department with Four modern 5 by 240 inch blast furnaces and a Converting Department with four Pierce-Smith basic converters 25 ft 10 in. long by 10 ft in diameter.