Mount Isa is home to one of only two copper smelters in Australia and is the only one that can process third-party product. In countries like China and Indonesia, treatment costs are heavily ...

Glencore to shut Australia's Mount Isa copper mines in second half of 2025 By Nausheen Thusoo October 17, 20236:13 PM PDTUpdated October 17, 2023 ...

What would Queensland's "Stack City" be without its smoking stack? By 2030, the outback city of Mount Isa will find out. The famous candy-cane-striped copper smelter, or stack, gave the mining ...

Glencore (LON: GLEN) has declared its Mount Isa copper smelter unviable and is awaiting a response from Australia’s federal and Queensland’s governments regarding requests for financial ...

"The Mount Isa community can take a hit and get back up, the copper mine closure is taking a hit, I don't know whether it can take two hits in quick succession," Mr Peterson said.

Oct 18 (Reuters) - Mining giant Glencore GLEN.L on Wednesday confirmed that it is set to close its copper mines in Mount Isa by the second half of 2025. (Reporting by Nausheen Thusoo in Bengaluru ...