A few weeks ago Doug Ford was on site at Glencore’s Craig Mine for first access to ore at the Onaping Depth project. To get that ore to the smelter, Lefebvre says, the trucks run about 70 kilometres, all of it on municipal pavement. Nine operating mines, more coming, two smelters — the whole circuit lies inside city limits. “This does not exist anywhere else in the world,” he says, meaning both mining and processing inside a 50-kilometre radius.
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