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Philip Pascall on some things that matter

First Quantum Minerals has become a copper major ostensibly via being an owner-builder and growing its business using its own expertise rather than going down the more conventional EPCM contractor route. The company’s low profile chairman and CEO Philip Pascall gives Mining Journal his thoughts on this and other themes such as the outlook for copper.

Construction of Cobre Panama in central America … First Quantum prefers not to rely on EPCM contractors

Construction of Cobre Panama in central America … First Quantum prefers not to rely on EPCM contractors

For Pascall, the general problem with using EPCM contractors relates to the hiring company needing to also hire “departments of people” as overseers. Otherwise, according to Pascall, the client runs the...

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