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Mining Explorers 2013: Pebble loses major partner funds

Anglo drops massive copper project; Northern Dynasty regroups, forges ahead

After spending more than half a billion dollars to take the Pebble Project to the cusp of permitting, Anglo American plc has pulled out of The Pebble Limited Partnership, an alliance it forged six years ago with junior Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. to gain a 50 percent stake in one of the largest copper-gold-molybdenum deposits on the planet.

According to the most recent published resource estima...

 

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