Niobec

The Niobec mine is located in the municipality of Saint-Honoré in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, approximately 200 kilometres north of Québec city. It is the only underground niobium mine, and one of the three main niobium producers in the world. The mine’s current production accounts for approximately 8 to 10% of the world’s production which varies according to the shifts in global supply and demand from year to year.

Source: Niobec Website page : About In a nut shell page

The Niobec Mine is located 25 km north of Ville de Saguenay (Chicoutimi), Québec, in the limits of the municipality of Saint-Honoré, in Simard Township, Québec (Figure 4-1). The property is held 100% by Gestion IAMGOLD Québec inc. (IQM), a wholly-owned subsidiary of IAMGOLD. The approximate geographic centre of the property is within National Topographic Series Map reference 22D/11 at longitude 71° 9' 37" west and latitude 48° 31' 44" north. Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates for the project centre utilizing projection North American Datum (NAD) 83, Zone 19 are approximately 340,511 m east and 5,377,347 m north. Access to the property is via paved all-weather roads.

Source: Technical Report on Expansion options at the Niobec Mine (June 17, 2011) page : 4-1

The Project is readily accessible by well established, all-weather paved and gravel roads. It is located in Simard Township, approximately 25 km north of the Ville de Saguenay (Chicoutimi), Québec, and adjacent to the municipality of Saint-Honoré, Québec. Access to the Project from Ville de Saguenay is via Québec Provincial Highway 172, travelling west, to Rue Martel. Bearing north-northeast for approximately nine kilometres, Rue Martel intersects Rue de l’Hôtel-de-Ville. Rue de l’Hôtel-de-Ville is followed west-northwest for approximately five kilometres to where it intersects the gravel Route du Columbium. The mine gate is located approximately 1.5 km southsouthwest of this intersection.

Source: Technical Report on Expansion options at the Niobec Mine (June 17, 2011) page : 5-1