Imagine a mine site that grows food onsite, is fully powered by renewable energy, and looks more like the SpaceX factory than a typical mining operation. The vision belongs to Rob McEwen, one of Canada’s most famous mining entrepreneurs and innovators.
“I remember walking through the SpaceX factory — just gleaming white floors, long, beautiful stainless steel, people moving with purpose — I’d like to see a mine like that,” McEwen said at The Northern Miner’s recent Global Mining Symposium. “We can involve the most current technologies and philosophies about what a mine could look like.”
Speaking with Northern Miner Senior Staff Writer Colin McClelland, the founder of Goldcorp and now McEwen Mining (TSX: MUX; NYSE: MUX), discussed how to attract young people to the industry, how to win the general public over to mining, and how he’d like to develop McEwen Mining’s Los Azules copper project in Argentina. Los Azules, the world’s ninth-largest undeveloped copper deposit, has already attracted investment from both Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) and automaker Stellantis (NYSE: STLA).
Watch the conversation below.
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