Province issues accelerated permit to expand Similkameen Valley’s Copper Mountain Mine

Hudbay Minerals announced Feb. 20 that it had received the permit from the B.C. Ministry of Mines to expand its operations at Copper Mountain Mine near Princeton.
The permit process received an accelerated timeline from the province as part of its Look West initiative, despite pushback from local First Nations, and will see the mine’s estimated lifetime expand decades.
“The New Ingerbelle permit ensures that we’ll be able to advance this major project while extending our partne