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Cobre Panama Mine - Proven and probable reserves

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Hello, I am an employee of First Quantum Minerals and I just wanted to highlight that Cobre Panama mine has now 2.8 billion tonnes of proven and probable reserves. This information can be found in the 2022 Annual Information Form on the company website. 216.191.223.35 (talk) 18:36, 12 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Cobre Panama Mine - Ball Mills Amount

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Hello, I am an employee of First Quantum Minerals and I just wanted to highlight that there are now six (not four) 16.5 megawatt ball mills installed at Cobre Panama. This information can be found in the Q1 2023 MD&A on the company website. 216.191.223.35 (talk) 18:42, 12 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Biased in favor of the mine

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The IUCN chapter in Panama, together with ELAW and the Panamanian agency CIAM, have made surveys in the mine coming to the conclusion that the mine should be closed permanently and mine reclamation should be carried out. There's also this article https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jan/21/panama-cobre-mine-first-quantum-minerals which talks about the mine in a negative way. The mine's power plant according to Panamanian power grid data was in full operation under coal from day one until its closure although I am afraid there's no history on the operation of the power plant publicly online besides a lack of a solar generating station at the site according to Panamanian power grid data from goverment operator ETESA. [1] These things, incidents such as pollution recorded in 2021 and prior years by Miambiente (ministry of the environment) reasons for the unconstitutionality of law 406 according to the panamanian supreme court in 2017 and 2023, and people's perception about the mine as reported on La Estrella de Panamá are missing which biases the article in the parts that can be related to Corporate social responsibility. There's positive, ambiguous and some objective content but no negative, opposing views which are necessary for readers to make their own conclusions together with positive views which are already present. I plan on adding content about these things later. It is definitely concerning that at least two of the sources that support the Corporate social responsibility claims of the mine are self published by the mine and their impact on communities can't be verified without an in person visit.

Please note, most media in Panama is found on Instagram in case you are interested in finding exact sources. There are several small yet reliable media sources in the country, with an editorial board and/or journalists, that only have an online presence through social media, the main one being Instagram. Websites run by even established media outlets like tv stations, tend to be out of date or lack information that is posted in their social media accounts including live streams on YouTube. They often show a clear pro business (and thus a pro mining, anti protest) bias too except for some newspapers like La Prensa which is hard to cite given most of their website is behind a paywall, and La Estrella which doesn't cover a lot of stuff Pancho507 (talk) 06:25, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Biased sources in favor of the mine

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The source called en segundos [2] [3] and presspty https://presspty.com/tag/cobre-panama/ These media outlets seem to have little to no negative nor neutral reporting about the mine. En segundos has some negative or neutral reporting but judging by quantity its reporting on the mine is very positive although more recent reporting tends to be more neutral around half of new reporting and most older reports seem to favor the mine even with headlines about arbitration (which the mine would like to win, there have been interviews on mass media like TVN and Telemetro with people saying Panama will lose because basically it's anti business, and they have never invited someone to talk about the mine who is against it, the articles seem to imply losses for panama and this one even highlights the mine's stance at the top of the article [4]) or a self financed closure (which provides an opportunity for the mine to continue operations normally and not close). There's also another source with RRHH in its name that focuses on HR initiatives so not sure how reliable it is.Pancho507 (talk) 08:41, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]