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Equinox will produce 135,000 tonnes of copper concentrate in 2010

March 11, 2010 - 11:52 GMT Location: London

KEYWORDS: Equinox , copper , Lumwana mine , Abhinav Ramnarayan

Equinox has maintained its production guidance for 2010 at 135,000 tonnes of copper concentrate, the company said

The Australia- and Canada-listed miner plans to ramp up to full production at its Lumwana mine to a design throughput rate of 20 million tpy of ore by the second half of 2010. It mined 13 million tonnes of ore in 2009 – production began in the April 2009 – producing 109,413 tonnes of copper concentrate, the company said in its annual results statement. The company...

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