Taseko Mines Limited

B.C. Minister of Energy and Mines Bill Bennett (left) joins Taseko Mines president and CEO Russell Hallbauer onstage at the company's Gibraltar mine-expansion celebration in B.C. Photo by Gwen Preston.

Taseko celebrates an improved Gibraltar mine

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. — When Taseko Mines (TSX: TKO; NYSE-MKT: TGB) reopened Gibraltar near Williams Lake in 2006, the 36-year-old mine had enough ore to feed its 30,000-tonne-per-day mill for just over three years.


From left: Imperial Metals' VP of corporate affairs Steve Robertson, VP of corporate development Gordon Keevil and construction manager Bryan Alexander near the tailings facility under construction at the Red Chris copper-gold project in northwestern B.C. Photo: Gwen Preston

The majestic rise of Imperial’s Red Chris

DEASE LAKE, B.C. — Buying used equipment. Building the small mine envisioned by previous project owners because it was already permitted. Funding the $500-million capital cost from cash flow, supplemented by a loan from a single…




In Williams Lake, B.C., on July 22, 2013, anti-mine protestors march to the opening of the federal review public hearing for Taseko MInes' proposed New Prosperity copper-gold mine. Photo By Gwen Preston.

Editorial: Prosperity’s temerity

I visited Taseko Mines’ Gibraltar mine north of Williams Lake, B.C., in 2008. The company bought the shuttered operation in 1998 and restarted it in 2004. Four expansions later, Gibraltar now employs 700 people, churns out 90 million lb….



JV partners grow resource at Woodjam

In a little over a year, partners Consolidated Woodjam Copper (WCC-V) and Gold Fields (GFI-N) have grown the inferred resource at the Southeast zone on their Woodjam property in the Cariboo region of central British Columbia from 146.5 million…



Stacked up copper sheets ready to be transported. Source: CODELCO

A changing landscape for growing copper producers

VANCOUVER — With the US$5.1-billion hostile takeover of Toronto-based Inmet Mining (IMN-T) by large-cap peer First Quantum Minerals (FM-T, FQM-L) looking all but wrapped up, it seems an opportune time to take a look at the shifting…





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