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Glencore plc is a Swiss multinational commodity trading and mining company with headquarters in Baar, Switzerland. Glencore's oil and gas head office is in London and its registered office is in Saint Helier, Jersey. By some estimates, it is the world's largest commodity trader, [4] and among the world's largest companies. [5] [6] [7]
The Swiss company Glencore owns a number of large copper mines, particularly after acquiring Katanga Mining as a wholly owned subsidiary. Currently, Glencore owns majority stakes in Kamoto Copper Company SARL (KCC) and DRC Copper and Cobalt Project SARL (DCC), which run several copper/cobalt mines, as well as a Mutanda Mining SARL , which runs ...
The mine began ore production in 1966, as an open pit mine and eventually evolved into an underground mine. The mine produces copper, zinc, and several other metals. [4] [9] The mine has the oldest-known flowing water on Earth. A billion-year-old water sample collected from the mine was added to the collection at Ingenium in Ottawa on November ...
Glencore's initial plan to divest its coal business stemmed from environmental considerations. However, 95% of shareholders participating in the consultation advocated for retaining the coal and ...
It is operated by McArthur River Mining (MRM), a subsidiary of the Swiss mining company Glencore. Although discovered in the 1950s, when it was originally called the HYC or "Here's Your Chance" deposit, it only opened as a mine in 1995. Initially an underground mining operation, the mine has been converted to open-cut.
Glencore The Newlands Coal Mine is a coal mine located in the north of the Bowen Basin at Newlands about 28 km northwest of Glenden in North Queensland , Australia. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 413 million tonnes of low ash steaming coal , one of the largest coal reserves in Australia and the world.
The Rolleston Coal Mine is an open-cut coal mine located in Central Queensland, Australia, with reserves amounting to 600 million tonnes of thermal coal. The mine has an annual production capacity of 14 million tonnes. [1] It is one of numerous coal mines in the Bowen Basin. The mine is wholly owned by Glencore. [2]
It is an open pit mine which had an estimated life of mine at 15 years. It also produced molybdenum. The mine is jointly owned by Teck Resources, BHP, Glencore, and Mitsubishi Corporation [2] and independently operated by Compañía Minera Antamina S.A. [1] It produced 390,800 tons of copper concentrate in 2006, 461,000 tons [4] in 2013. The ...