The Copper Mountain Mine, located south of Princeton, British Columbia, is a conventional open pit, truck and shovel operation. The mine has a 45,000 tonnes per day plant that utilizes a conventional crushing, grinding and flotation circuit to produce copper concentrates with gold and silver credits.
Links
- https://hudbayminerals.com/canada/default.aspx
- https://goo.gl/maps/uxZLUh7asKo6AW569
- https://www.mindat.org/loc-209671.html
Notes
Owner/operator: Hudbay Minerals Inc 75%, Mitsubishi Materials Corp 25%
Employees: 700
Mill capacity: 45,000 tpa (15 Mtpa)
Operations: open pit mine, mill, flotation plant
Products: copper concentrate; co-products Ag, Au
Copper production: 60 ktpa
Köppen climate type: Dsc - Dry-summer subarctic climate
Media
- Jun-26: Hudbay Minerals breaks ground at Copper Mountain mine expansion (checked 1-Jul026)
Created Oct-25; updated Jul-26