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First Quantum sees output rising in 2010, starts Ravensthorpe modifications
Updated 3 hours ago
By: Liezel Hill
Toronto- and London-listed First Quantum Minerals expects to produce 385 000 t of copper and 240 000 oz of gold this year, compared with 373 940 to of copper and 193 288 gold ounces in 2009, the firm said on Tuesday.
First Quantum has mines in Zambia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Mauritania, is developing a nickel/copper/platinum-group-metals project in Finland and... Full Article
Published: 16th March 2010, 17:24
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