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Main products are nickel and copper, by product PGE elements. Open pit mine opened in August 2012, and sold in June 2016 to Boliden AB. Troilus Gold-Copper Mine, closed in 2008 by Inmet, located in northern Quebec, Canada; Winston Lake zinc-copper mine, near Winston Lake, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada. This mine was closed in 1998 by Inmet.
The Storliden zinc-copper mine located in Västerbotten County, Sweden, was in production between 2002 and 2008. The Galmoy zinc-lead-silver mine located in County Kilkenny , Ireland, ceased production in 2011 after completing the extraction of its zinc deposit.
Another Canadian operation was the Kidd Mine and Kidd Metallurgical Site in Timmins, Ontario which includes an underground copper/zinc mine, concentrator, copper smelter and copper refinery, zinc plant, indium plant, cadmium plant, and sulfuric acid plants. Falconbridge also operated the Montcalm underground nickel mine west of Timmins.
ASARCO's smelting plant in El Paso, Texas, was suspended in 1999 and then demolished on April 13, 2013. Before closing, the plant produced 1,000,000,000 pounds (450,000,000 kg) of anodes each year. Refining at the mines as well as at a copper refinery in Amarillo, Texas, produce 375,000,000 pounds (170,000,000 kg) of refined copper each year.
Recycling is a major source of copper in the modern world. [35] Price of Copper 1959–2022. The price of copper is volatile. [37] After a peak in 2022 the price unexpectedly fell. [38] The global market for copper is one of the most commodified and financialized of the commodity markets, and has been so for decades. [39]: 213
Rare Earth Elements (REEs), Gold, Copper Explorer Liberty Star to Conduct New Geochemical Studies at Hay Mountain, Southeast Arizona TUCSON, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Liberty Star Uranium & Metals ...
MP Materials produced 28,000 tonnes of rare-earth oxide equivalent from Mountain Pass in 2019, and 38,500 tonnes in 2020, or more than 15% of global production. [4] As of late 2020, Shenghe Resources was the sole purchaser of MP Material's rare earth concentrate.
The company’s principal asset was the Mountain Pass rare earth mine, which once supplied the majority of the world's rare earth elements. The mine was previously owned by Unocal. The mine closed in 2002, but reopened in 2010. [15] Because of the competition from China, the mine became unprofitable.