When Old is New Again

In this brave new world of AI, the world needs copper.

More copper, in fact, than is known to remain untapped after centuries of wholesale extraction.

What to do?

A partial solution is to harvest the 100s of millions of low-grade ores from old, long abandoned mines. New smelting processes can now extract what were originally cast aside as worthless.

It’s going to spark a whole new copper mining boom in BC. More in this week’s BC Chronicles.

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PHOTO: For years, the Mascot gold mine on the Hope Princeton Highway has been a major Similkameen tourist draw. But with the renewed need of copper in quantities that threaten to exceed the world’s supply, it and other major producers of old are again under the glass. —similkameenvalley.com