Freeport Indonesia to process 400,000t of copper concentrate at new smelter
Earlier this month, Freeport obtained an export permit for the rest of the year from the government.
North American Palladium of Toronto has expanded the platinum group metals zone at the Sunday Lake property, 25 km northeast of Thunder Bay and 60 km south of NAP’s Lac des Iles mill. The current campaign is focused on a large PGM zone and copper-nickel sulphide mineralization in the deeper portions of the Sunday Lake mafic-ultramafic intrusion.
NAP is the operator and earning a 75% interest at Sunday Lake, and Transition Metals Corp. owns the remaining 25%.
The best assays to date have been returned from recent drilling. Here are some highlights:
(This article first appeared in the Canadian Mining Journal)