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General Magnesium Whitney Mine Could Bring 1,000 Jobs To Timmins – Mining Life

Nov 29, 2014

The words talc and magnesium will soon be as much part of the Timmins landscape as gold, copper and boreal forests.

General Magnesium Corporation is progressing towards opening a surface talc and magnesite mining operation as well as building a talc magnesite reduction and concentration facility which in laymen’s term is known as a smelter.

Once fully in production, the General Magnesium operation could produce more than 1,000 jobs for the Timmins area.

The company has already collectied  more than 40,000 tons of surface core material. In mid-November General Magnesium  tested a surface mining equipment which enables cutting, crushing and loading in a single working pass. The machine looks like a road resurfacing machine, but it breaks and crushes rock reducing the cost of secondary reduction by 60 per cent.

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