How Does This Help Us? Only way this helps us is if FQ bought PDI from us and transferred the workforce. That seems to be what MJK over on IHUB is implying. Hope he's right and Jaywalker is wrong. Don't think Jaywalker is wrong about ANAN visiting the plant for a week. That doesn't sound good.
From IHUB translated:
Panamanian occupy 90 % of working spaces Cobre Panama
( Panama , April 14, 2014 ) From February 2013 to date, the Cobre Panama project has reported a 56% increase in the hiring of local labor of 1,622 workers in February 2013 to 2.527 workers in March this year . The report generated monthly local staff , 90% of the other workers are national , and of these 56% are from neighboring communities to the project.
" We can proudly say that the Cobre Panama project employs more than 2,500 employees, of whom more than half are from the communities surrounding Cobre Panama in the district of Donoso and La Pintada, and this number will increase through the phase construction , "said Todd Clewett , Country Manager of the company.
Minera Panama , under the leadership of First Quantum Minerals , has made significant progress in building components that will support the operations of the Cobre Panama mine , including camps , power plant , roads and driveways . These advances are made following the industry standards and in compliance with environmental commitments made by the partner company.