Atlas Copper Mine To Restart Operation
Atlas Mining Corporation used to be the largest copper mine in Southeast Asia for almost 40 years until it closed down after a devastating storm in 1994 and a slump in metal prices in the world market.
Now after a little over a decade since then, the mine will reopen and start commercial operations in 2007. Located in Lutopan, Toledo City, in the western seaboard of Cebu, the mine was projected to run for another 20 more years with an estimated total copper deposits of 218 million metric tons.