The Wedge Mine was a copper mine in the Bathurst Mining Camp

Bathurst Mining Camp

The Bathurst Mining Camp is a mining district in northeast New Brunswick, Canada. The camp hosts 45 known volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits.-Mines:*Brunswick 12 mine*Brunswick 6 mine*Caribou zinc mine*Heath Steele Mines*Wedge Mine...

 of Northeast New Brunswick

New Brunswick

New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual . The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton is the largest Census Metropolitan Area...

. It was owned and operated by Cominco on the north bank of the Nepisiguit River

Nepisiguit River

The Nepisiguit River is a major river in New Brunswick, Canada. The source of the river lies north of the Christmas Mountains, in the rugged terrain between Mount Carleton, and Big Bald Mountain . The river enters the sea at the city of Bathurst, New Brunswick, on the Bay of Chaleur...

. The mine was discovered in 1956 and in operation from 1962 to 1968 producing 1.5 million tonnes of ore. The ore was trucked to, and milled at the Heath Steele Mine

Heath Steele Mines, New Brunswick

Heath Steele Mines, situated 60 km northwest of Newcastle, New Brunswick, Canada, at the headwaters of the Tomogonops and Little Rivers, was a large and productive copper, lead and zinc mine which operated from 1956 to 1999...

. Only the copper rich part of the deposit was mined.