JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Base metals producer Taseko’s British Columbia-based Gibraltar mine has been temporarliy idled owing to uncontrolled wildfires in the mine’s immediate vicinity.
In response to the severe wildfire conditions, the company had already scaled back mining and milling operations at the mine.
An evacuation order has been issued for Williams Lake and several other smaller communities in the region.
“It is unclear when milling and mining operations will recommence,” the company said in a statement on Monday, adding that there were no fires in the immediate area of Gibraltar that posed any threat to the mine.
Taseko highlighted this as an “evolving situation” which management was actively managing to ensure that Gibraltar was restarted as soon as possible.