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Continued challenging global market conditions for commodities, especially minerals and metals, have forced Nyrstar to postpone funding of its Myra Falls mine site upgrades, the company announced yesterday. This decision extends the sus-
Campbell River Search and Rescue (SAR) thought they were responding to save someone in distress last week, only to find they were actually searching for a rescue beacon someone had thrown in their garbage. On Oct. 15, a Personal Locator Beacon (PLB) signal was received by the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) in Trenton, Ont., coming from “near McIvor Lake,” according to SAR manager Grant Cromer’s report of the incident, at which point SAR was contacted. A PLB is a personal locating beacon that people carry and emits an emergency signal to a system of satellites when the user presses the emergency button. Some rescue beacons use commercial satellite systems monitored by a private satellite provider, but according to the report, the signal from this beacon was transmitted directly to the Department of National Defence JRCC in Trenton. “We received beacon coordinates (from JRCC) that showed a location near a roadway south of the landfill,”