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Albert Mackenzie

Albert Mackenzie

Sep 14, 2026

14:50
that be considered a greenfield then if it's an existing mine that they're going to reopen just to get that terminology out there for maybe newer people to copper?
14:57
don't know if there's actually a sort of set way to define it i would tend to greenfield nothing was there before kind of thing brownfield i would maybe lean towards your improving an existing asset and then restarts which i guess comes under brownfield but if it's literally stopped processing something and it starts up again i guess you'd put those under restarts and there's a few of those and there's a lot of brownfield investment you know One of the reasons why people are concerned about copper supply in the future is lots of the assets that are currently operating are forecast to decline in production in the coming years.
15:32
With copper prices being as high as they are, those companies will invest and keep it going.
15:37
Like I mentioned Escondido earlier, they're looking at building a new concentrator.
15:40
So that will mean that that asset can keep going a bit longer.
15:43
The other thing, and coming to the sort of length of time it takes, I would mention China in the DRC.
15:50
A huge amount.
17:41
What does the M&A market look like today? Are you seeing money move around? Are you seeing people talk about that?

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