Coeur d'Alene considering sale of its flagship US operations

摘要

Coeur d'Alene Mines' announcement that its core Rochester silver-gold mine near Lovelock, Nevada, may be up for sale could mean an end to the company's 80-year presence (save for its headquarters building in Coeur d'Alene,Idaho) as a miner in the continental US. The Rochester open pit property accounted for 47% of Coeur's revenues as recently as 2006 and as much as 78% in 2002. Mining at the Rochester was halted in September 2007, although the mill and leach pads will continue to process broken ores into 2011, according to company reports.