Mond Nickel Company

[1] The first of Mond's Canadian mining properties located in Denison Township, was purchased from Rinaldo McConnell and associates in 1899.

In that year, the company purchased the mining rights at Frood Extension about 8 miles from Coniston, though no serious development took place at this location until the 1920s.

[2] As one result of the merger, the Inconel trademark was created in 1932 for the output of Henry Wiggan & Co, the Mond Nickel Company's research arm in Hereford, England.

[7] Alfred served in the coalition government of David Lloyd George as First Commissioner of Works from 1916 to 1921, allowing him to use the expertise of the Mond company to develop armour for the first British Tanks during World War 1.

[8] During World War 2, as well as producing armour plate, the works was also commissioned to undertake a number of other highly classified secret projects.

The Mond Company was the sole supplier of nickel mesh to the K-25 facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, which produced the U235 used in Little Boy, the world's first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.