Sixty-five employees of the refinery will lose their jobs.
Friday, June 19, 2009 at 4:04 p.m.
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ONTONAGON -- The White Pine Copper Refinery in Ontonagon County will be closing down within one year. That announcement was made by the refinery's owner, HudBay Minerals.
It means that 65 employees of the refinery will lose their jobs, although the company says it will work with them to mitigate the impact of the closure.
The refinery was closed because the Flin Flon Smelter in Manitoba, which sends copper anodes to White Pine for refining, is also shutting down.
HudBay said the reasons for the closures are that today's business realities just make it impractical to keep them open.
Read the full press release from HudBay here.
