Overview -
The Highland Valley Copper mine is the largest copper mine in Canada and one of the largest copper mining and concentrating operations in the world. It is owned and operated by Teck Cominco Ltd.
The property is located in the Highland Valley, 75 km southwest of Kamloops in central British Columbia, Canada. It covers a surface area of approximately 34,000 hectares.
It is a porphyry copper-molybdenum deposit mined by several open pits. Facilities include the Highland mill and the Valley, Lornex and Highland open pit mines.
The mining operation has yielded more than 2.8Mt of copper in concentrate during its lifetime. Output in 2007 totalled 139,500t of copper in concentrates and 4,069t of molybdenum in concentrates.
Highland Valley Copper is executing a two-phase mine life extension that requires pushbacks of the east and west walls of the Valley pit, which will permit mining until 2019. The total capital cost of the 2019 extension is expected to be $300 million, of which approximately $130 million is for equipment and $170 million is for pre-production stripping during the periodfrom 2009 through 2013.
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