{"id":656690,"date":"2026-05-08T20:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/656690\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T20:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:29:11","slug":"moving-dirt-with-no-iron-in-it-dont-pay-the-bills-lab-city-mayor-weighs-in-on-ioc-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/656690\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Moving Dirt with No Iron in it Don\u2019t Pay the Bills\u2019 Lab City Mayor Weighs in on IOC Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ioc-lab-west-mine.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"'Moving Dirt with No Iron in it Don't Pay the Bills' Lab City Mayor Weighs in on IOC Operations\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Mayor of Labrador City says despite a relatively strong market, IOC is currently bogged down with \u201cmoving dirt with no iron in it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Jordan Brown was responding to word that IOC has had to cut back on production while it works to <a href=\"https:\/\/vocm.com\/2026\/05\/08\/298556\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">clear millions of tonnes of waste<\/a> from the mining site. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo right now they have to move a lot of non-production waste, which is just regular dirt, to get to the rest of the ore body.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Officials from Rio Tinto are coming to St. John\u2019s on May 19th to meet with government officials on the issue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The Mayor of Labrador City says despite a relatively strong market, IOC is currently bogged down with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-656690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}