The MV Arctic is an icebreaker built in 1978 at the Port Weller Dry Docks located in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. US Coast Guard icebreakers near McMurdo Station, February 2002 An icebreaker is a special purpose ship designed to move and navigate through ice covered marine environments. ... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... St. ...

Designed to carry both oil and ore, the vessel is not only ice strengthened but has a Baltic 1A Super ice rating. This means it is powerful enough to navigate through many ice covered waters unescorted. The MV Arctic routinely services mines in the high Canadian Arctic such as Polaris and Nanisivik. Nodding donkey pumping an oil well near Sarnia, Ontario, 2001 Petroleum (from Latin petrus – rock and oleum – oil), mineral oil, or crude oil, sometimes colloquially called black gold, is a thick, dark brown or greenish flammable liquid, which exists in the upper strata of some areas of the Earths... An ore is a mineral deposit containing a metal or other valuable resource in economically viable concentrations. ... The El Chino Mine located near Silver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually (but not always) from an ore body, vein, or (coal) seam. ... The Canadian Arctic is a vast region of northern Canada. ...

External links

• MV Arctic Homepage (http://www.fednav.com/en/fleet/57_arctic.html) Retrieved 08 Jan 2005.

• STRUCTURE OF THE TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY (http://www.tc.gc.ca/pol/en/Report/anre2001/tc0110ee.htm) Retrieved 08 Jan 2005.