Panama vows to shut down First Quantum after top court rules against Canadian mining firm – CBC.ca
Panama’s president said Tuesday that Canadian miner First Quantum’s lucrative copper mine, Cobre Panama, would be shut down, hours after the country’s Supreme Court declared its contract unconstitutional. President Laurentino Cortizo said in a televised address on Tuesday evening that “the orderly and safe closure of the mine” would begin as soon as the Supreme Court’s …