Former North Country miners offered work in Montana
ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY, N.Y. -- Nearly 30 former St. Lawrence Zinc employees have been offered jobs out west with the Stillwater Mining Co. in Montana.
Stillwater finished recruiting sessions this week for St. Lawrence Zinc miners, electricians and fixed maintenance personnel, doing about 60 interviews. The choice to work in the Stillwater mines means moving about 2,000 miles from St. Lawrence County.
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HudBay Minerals, the parent company of St. Lawrence Zinc, closed its zinc mine Aug. 22, citing increasing operating costs and low prices for the metal, eliminating about 200 jobs.
The Winnipeg, Manitoba, company reopened the mine in late 2005 because of record zinc prices. A small group of workers will stay on.
Stillwater extracts, refines and markets platinum and palladium, a metal used in catalytic converters.
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