Besides its open pit mine located in Northern Quebec, there is a growing lithium battery industry growing in Montreal.
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Along with strong financial backing, the Quebec Lithium open pit mine is on schedule in terms of commissioning and construction.
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Buy it and you make some open-pit mine in Arizona a little deeper.
The open-pit mine, which was once owned by Anaconda, has sat abandoned since 1978 after Anaconda sold the property.
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Toronto's Northland Power wants to convert an old open-pit iron ore mine in Ontario into a waterfall five times the height of Niagara Falls, which could be used to generate power.
There are also fears that the mine being open-pit will contaminate water supplies.
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Based in Pheonix, Phelps Dodge has copper mining operations in the U.S., Chile, Peru and Congo, while New Orleans-based Freeport operates the vast open-pit Grasberg gold, copper, and silver mine in Indonesia, and has reserves of about 37 billion pounds of copper and 40 million ounces of gold.
Opponents say the new mine, which will consist of an open pit, tunnels beneath, and processing plant, will destroy the forest and contaminate groundwater.
The current phase of production at the Ekati Diamond Mine includes ore sourced primarily from the lower grade, but high carat value, Fox open pit supplemented by underground production from the lower portion of the Koala kimberlite pipe and from the Koala North pipe.
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Serra Pelada, at its peak in the 1980s, saw as many as 80, 000 artisanal miners (called garimpeiros) mine roughly 2 million ounces of gold as well as platinum and palladium from a hand-dug open pit.
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