North American miner Taseko Mines in 2019 produced 126-million pounds of copper and 2.7-million pounds of molybdenum from its 75%-owned Gibraltar mine, in British Columbia.
This had met the production guidance that the company set, despite a CN Rail strike in November, which impacted on the mine’s concentrate shipments for 11 days and forced the company to reduce its production, owing to concentrate storage capacity issues.