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Continued from pg. 1 The loss of 30-plus well-paying jobs is significant, but there will be new opportunities in mining courtesy of Hudbay's Reed and Lalor projects. Trudeau gave credit to HudBay's human resources department for its work in minimizing the impact to the company workforce. 'They've been putting a lot of long hours in for the last three, four months,' he said. Salvage operations and final production clean-up at Trout Lake _ a process expected to last a few weeks _ will begin August 1. 'Quite small' 'The salvage crew is going to be quite small,' said Trudeau. 'They've done quite a bit of the work now on salvage over the last couple of months with the crews that they have.' Full production at Lalor, near Snow Lake, is expected for late 2014. At that point, the mine and its concentrator are set to require some 250 new employees in addition to the roughly 100 who will transfer from the fast-depleting Chisel North Mine. At Reed, further west of Snow Lake, Hudbay plans to start full production on a five-year mine by late 2013. During the pre-production development phase, HudBay expects to need 44 workers. Once full production is reached, roughly 77 employees will be required. The Reminder will have more on the closure of Trout Lake mine next week.
