Panama Pres. Mulino Says ‘Table Clean’ for Copper Mine Talks

Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino said “the table is clean to start conversations” on the potential resumption of operations at First Quantum’s copper mine after Franco Nevada suspended its arbitration against the Central American country.

• A decision on how to restart the mine “is not near” and “is a very complicated topic with a lot of aspects that need to be revisited,” Mulino said Thursday in Panama City
• “It will be evaluated and decided on as a function of national interest and it will not go through the National Assembly. It will be an agreement with the state, exercising ...