Szilva submitted his idea of a Big Nickel, underground mine and mining museum. At the time he was told his idea wouldn't do anything good for Sudbury and they picked a police station instead.

The Big Nickel, a popular tourist attraction in Sudbury, Ont., commemorates the 200th anniversary of the isolation of metallic nickel by Swedish mineralogist and chemist Baron Axel Frederic ...

Sudbury more than lives up to the phrase ‘go big or go home’. In more ways than one. The Big Nickel, one of the Ontario’s most recognized landmarks, is nine metres tall, weighs 13,000 ...

On the drive into Sudbury, a nine-metre-high piece of pocket change appears on the horizon. Built in the 1960s, the Big Nickel is a symbol of the city’s past as a booming mining town.

Sudbury's Big Nickel turns 60 The dream of a then 28-year-old firefighter became Sudbury's iconic Big Nickel. Ian Campbell shares the story as the landmark turns 60.

Perhaps no other city knows of that legacy quite as well as Sudbury, often known as the Big Nickel, after the giant sculpture of a five-cent piece that is one of the best-known tourist attractions.

Sudbury, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - July 13, 2022) - SPC Nickel Corp. (TSXV: SPC) ("SPC Nickel" or the "Company"), is pleased to announce assay results from a further 4 out of 18 diamond drill ...