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Nickel Belt

British  

noun

  1. the area around Sudbury in Northern Ontario, rich in nickel ore

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Early this year, global miners Glencore and Vale approved projects more than 5,000 feet below ground in Sudbury’s nickel belt.

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The Nickel Belt is a stronghold of Canada’s most socialistic party, the New Democrats.

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