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Lundin biding time to complete mining portfolio with more deals

Bloomberg News | April 8, 2016 | 12:30 am Base Metals Precious Metals Canada Europe Copper Gold

Lundin defends early retirement package for Candelaria workers

Lundin’s Candelaria copper mine in Chile. (Image from archives)

Lundin Mining Corp., the base-metals company founded by the billionaire Swedish Lundin family, likely has one or two more acquisitions in its future — but is in no rush to get there.

“We’d like to have five or six operating mines that all have a decent life and a decent quality,” Chief Executive Officer Paul Conibear said in an interview this week from the company’s Toronto headquarters. “We have four now.”