some of you might find this interesting, taken from the "big score"...In 1883 97,000 acres of muskeg was staked, based on some rock samples picked up when the railroad was laying track, in what would eventually become Sudbury. It was then learned that the Sudbury copper was encased in nickel, then considered a nuisance mineral because it was so hideously expensive to separate from copper...It wasn't until 1890, that someone accidentally discovered an affordable process for separating nuisance nickel from Sudburt's copper...the rest is history. I had to laugh when I read that. For those who havn't read the "big score", I highly reccomend it.

Shakey