The Gibraltar Mine is a Canadian copper mine operated by Taseko Mines near McLeese Lake in British Columbia , Canada. It is the second largest open-pit mine in Canada and the fourth largest in North America.
5-633: The mine is the largest employer in the Cariboo region . Gibraltar was originally opened by Placer Development Ltd. of Vancouver in 1972. The property was sold in 1996 to Westmin Resources which closed the mine in 1998. In July 1999, Taseko Mines purchased Gibraltar and re-opened it in October 2004, taking over operations in 2006. In May 2006, the Phase I expansion was announced. The concentrator capacity
10-533: A change of 1.5% from its 2016 population of 61,988 . With a land area of 80,373.79 km (31,032.49 sq mi), it had a population density of 0.8/km (2.0/sq mi) in 2021. Twelve electoral area directors and four municipal directors govern the affairs of the Cariboo Regional District. The electoral area directors are elected by area voters, and municipal directors are appointed by their municipal council. All directors serve for
15-634: The Cities and Districts of Quesnel , Williams Lake , 100 Mile House , and Wells in the Central Interior of British Columbia . The Cariboo Regional District (CRD) in the Central Interior of BC encompasses 80,252 square kilometers of land. The Cariboo and Coastal mountain ranges hug the CRD on its west and east side boundaries. The region straddles Highway 97 from 70 Mile House in
20-476: The south to 5 km south of Hixon in the north. It belongs to the PDT/PST time zones. The Cariboo Regional District provides region-wide library services, recreational facilities, and local fire protection. As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , the Cariboo Regional District had a population of 62,931 living in 27,614 of its 32,395 total private dwellings,
25-653: Was increased from 36,750 to 46,000 tonnes per day (tpd) at a cost of $ 76 million. The phase II expansion – which began in May 2007 – saw the concentrator capacity increased from 46,000 to 55,000 tpd in a semi-autogenous grinding mill at a cost of $ 40 million. The mine went through addition upgrades during a third development phase which cost $ 325 million, increasing the design capacity of Gibraltar to 85,000 tpd. Taseko reported reserves of 2.4 billion pounds of copper and 69 million pounds of molybdenum in 2007. Cariboo Regional District The Cariboo Regional District spans
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