Things just keep getting better and better for the fledgling Red Chris copper and gold mine.
Imperial Metals will continue with the original owner's vision of developing a 30,000 ton per day open pit mine operation at the site, about 80 kilometres south of Dease Lake, but since acquiring ownership in 2007, the company has conducted additional exploration with positive results.
"We found that the true deposit is far larger than it was originally conceived to be," Steve Robertson said Wednesday night during a presentation at a Northern Interior Mining Group networking event.
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