Vedanta pays $246 million to regain Zambia copper mines
The metals and energy major plans to ramp up copper production from the mines to 300,000 tons a year and cobalt output to 6,000 tons.
With a proposed pilot plant in nearby Cobalt, BacTech Mining Corporation has teamed up with the Haileybury School of Mines to create a new bacterial oxidation technician course, the only one of its kind in Canada.
The course material is being prepared in collaboration between Dr. Paul Miller, BacTech’s vice-president of engineering and technology, and Dr. Chris Kennedy of the University of Toronto….more at Northern Ontario Business