Frood-Stobie Mine is a nickel

Nickel

Nickel is a chemical element with the chemical symbol Ni and atomic number 28. It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge. Nickel belongs to the transition metals and is hard and ductile...

 mine in Greater Sudbury, Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

, Canada.

During World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

, Frood Mine alone accounted for a full 40 per cent of all the nickel used in Allied

Allies

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 artillery

Artillery

Originally applied to any group of infantry primarily armed with projectile weapons, artillery has over time become limited in meaning to refer only to those engines of war that operate by projection of munitions far beyond the range of effect of personal weapons...

 production. In 1989, Frood Mine shared the John T. Ryan Trophy

John T. Ryan Trophy

John T. Ryan Trophies are CIM awards of excellence given to a mine in a given category which experiences the lowest accident frequency during the previous year in all of Canada. Three national trophies are given each year, one to a metal mine, a coal mine and one to a select mine...

 for the best occupational safety record among Canadian mines in the previous year.

The mine is named for Thomas Frood, an employee of the federal department of Crown lands who prospected and staked many of the early mining claims in the area. A major arterial road in the city is also named for Frood.

Queen Elizabeth II visited Frood mine in recognition of its contribution to World War II.

On June 8, 2011, two miners were killed at Stobie Mine when they were struck by a run of muck at an ore pass on the mine's 900-metre level.