RAW TENACITY PROPELS MINE TOWARDS PRODUTION--Parks and Parliament all part of Canadian Zinc Corn's NWT lead-zinc -silver project

摘要

"Finally!" John Kearney puts an extra emphasis on that word, summing up the daunting array of hurdles and roadblocks that Canadian Zinc Corporation has traversed in almost 20 years of work on the Prairie Creek base metal/silver deposit. "There's a lot of things coming together to make this project happen - finally," says Kearney, the hard-driving, Irish-born chairman and CEO, in a phone interview from his Toronto headquarters. He can recount being almost swallowed up by the expansion of a national park, then successfully lobbying to change an Act of Parliament to stay alive. He's endured the uncertainties of a decades-long land claim, then won the confidence of First Nations and the NWT Government to not only support the plan, but help make it happen.