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Hitting the reset buttonTrevali restarted the shuttered Caribou mine with a new lease on life

Trevali restarted the shuttered Caribou mine with a new lease on life

By Kylie Williams

June 17, 2021

Low zinc prices and escalating costs were just two of the factors that caused Trevali Mining to put the Caribou mine into care and maintenance. Courtesy of Trevali Mining

In mid-November 2020, Marie-Claude Dumont, senior operations manager at Trevali Mining’s Caribou zinc-lead-silver mine in northern New Brunswick, “dusted off the life-of-mine plan” for the operation the company had shuttered nine months earlier.

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