File this under "nice work if you can get it." A mine manager takes a two-year posting to close a mine in his home province and be close to family, and then his safety efforts helped lower costs to the point that the mine stays open an extra three years. That's exactly what happened to Xstrata Zinc's Greg Ashe when he accepted the general manager's job to close the 49-year-old Brunswick zinc-lead mine near Bathurst, NB. After almost a half century of mining, the Brunswick mine will shut down this spring. When the mine closes it will have extracted more than 136 million tonnes of ore from the No. 12 orebody, 13 million tonnes from its No.6 open pit, and processed another 200,000 tonnes of custom mill feed. Brunswick's concentrator processed approximately 150 million tonnes of ore and transitioned through five major changes in ownership: Brunswick Mining and Smelting Corporation, Noranda, Falconbridge, Xstrata and finally Glencore Xstrata.
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