Ivanhoe’s Kipushi zinc mine in the DRC officially reopens
The restart marked exactly a century since the mine first went into production.
British Columbia is bestowed with an impressive mineral wealth, and as a result has been one of the world’s mining capitals since the mid-1800s, producing and exporting a variety of commodities including copper, gold, silver, lead,zinc, molybdenum, and coal. From the 1950s through the early 1970s, most of the world’s major mining companies were actively exploring in the province, with several of them operating mines.
