New Ring of Fire Metals boss brings an Indigenous perspective and project smarts to advance Far North mine
Those words have served Kristan Straub well over his 22-year career with Glencore and the postings that have sent him across Canada and around the globe.
The company’s first mine in the batting order is the Eagle’s Nest nickel, copper, platinum group metals project. The start of construction and production is undetermined, pending the completion and approvals of the federal road and mine environmental assessments. Straub acknowledges his Indigenous roots affords him a unique understanding around the sensitivities and inflamed passions of some communities.
His Swiss-born father, Hans, immigrated to Canada with his family when he was a boy and later worked at the Falconbridge smelter. As vice-president of operations for Raglan Mine in Northern Quebec, he was tasked with managing the impact benefit agreement – originally signed in 1995 – for the two host Inuit communities, Salluit and Kangiqsujuaq.
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