Panama Will Insist on Resource Ownership in Cobre Copper Mine Talks

The First Quantum Minerals Ltd. Cobre mine in Donoso, Panama.

Photographer: Walter Hurtado/Bloomberg

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Panama will require that any agreement to restart the $10 billion Cobre Panama copper mine clearly stipulates that the country is the owner of the land and the resources, the country’s finance chief said in an interview.