And this year, the younger generation led by brothers Jack and Adam Lundin made a $4.8-billion deal with the world’s biggest miner, BHP (ASX, LON, NYSE: BHP) that’s likely to catapult base metals producer Lundin into the copper big leagues. That’s why The Northern Miner has named Jack, the company’s president and CEO, and Adam, Lundin’s chair, our Persons of the Year for 2024.
The transaction gives the $11-billiion market cap Lundin an equal seat at the table to develop Vicuña’s deposits on the Argentina side, Josemaria and Filo del Sol.
“This has the potential to become one of the world’s biggest copper, gold, silver mines ever to be developed and operated,” Jack told The Northern Miner in October.
But it also offers the Lundin brothers an opportunity to build on the family legacy started in early 1960s by their grandfather, Adolf, and their father Lukas, who first brought the group into…
