Top 10 active copper mines in Canada | Mining Energy
· The Gibraltar mine was originally built in 1972 and designed to process 36,000 tonnes of ore per day. Taseko Mines came along and purchased the site in 1999, and in 2004 it gave the project a 700 million restart, realizing its vast potential for increased copper production. Now, it is the secondlargest openpit copper mine in Canada and the ...