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Nevada Copper rolling Pumpkin Hollow forward SITE VISIT
| Underground operation will be first new US copper mine in a decade BY FRIK ELS
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Special to The Northern Miner YERINGTON, NEVADA
or the townsfolk of Yerington, Nevada Copper’s (TSX: NCU; US-OTC: NEVDF) plan to begin production next year at its Pumpkin Hollow copper mine has been 40 years in the making. The waste dumps left by Anaconda Mining Co. after it shut copper operations in 1978 still loom large over this town in Nevada’s Mason Valley, not far from Lake Tahoe and the California state line. There have been a few dashed hopes of a revival during the intervening decades in this region of the state, where mining dates back to the late 1800s. But next year the town of little over 3,000 people — who are proud of the fact that it’s the only place in the world called Yerington — will see the opening of a new mine, which within five years could eclipse the area’s heydays in size and scope. Pumpkin Hollow sits 13 km down a road lined by farms — row upon row of irrigated onions planted with down-to-the-centimetre precision — that sustained Lyon County during the lean years. The deposit was first discovered See NEVADA COPPER / 2
The Northern Miner’s editor-in-chief John Cumming (far left) moderates the big data discussion at the Progressive Mine Forum in October in Toronto. Panellists seated from left: Talia Dabby, PwC Canada director; Glenn Mullan, PDAC president; Humera Malik, Canvas Analytics CEO; Gordon Stothart, Iamgold executive vice-president and chief operating officer; and Shelby Yee, RockMass Technologies co-founder and CEO. GEORGE MATTHEW PHOTOGRAPHY
Experts tackle issues at mining’s cutting edge
PROGRESSIVE MINE FORUM 2018 BY JOHN CUMMING, ALISHA HIYATE AND RICHARD QUARISA
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ddressing the topic of innovation in mining and mineral exploration was the order of the day at The Northern Miner’s second annual Progressive Mine Forum (PMF) held at the MaRS Discovery District in downtown Toronto in mid-October. The first panel discussion, moderated by Northern Miner staff writer Richard Quarisa, focused on “Clean Mining” — looking at how far we’ve come over the past few decades, but also how far we still have to go. “Clean mining for me is actually about just getting better,” Vale
| Clean mining, automation, big data are keys to future success “MINING TENDS TO TALK TO MINING, WITH MINING, FOR MINING, ABOUT MINING.” PM40069240
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Canada vice-president of corporate affairs Cory McPhee said in front of a packed room of delegates. As an example he talked about Vale’s aim to dismantle the superstack at its Sudbury operation by 2020. After completing a $1-billion
investment in clean technology, McPhee said the company would no longer need it. “We’re reducing emission to 1% of what they were when the See EXPERTS / 6
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