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Rouyn-Noranda

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Rouyn-Noranda

Town in the Abitibi region of southwest Québec, Canada; population (1991) 26,400. It is located 500 km/310 mi northwest of Montréal. It is an amalgamation (1986) of two municipalities established in the 1920s around the Cadillac Fault's rich copper and gold deposits. Noranda was the company town of Noranda Mines, which has one of the largest smelters in Québec. Rouyn, directly south on Lake Osisko, was a mining village, and became the administrative, commercial, and industrial heart of the complex and of the surrounding mining area. Lumbering, dairying, and paper milling are also important.



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