Equinox Minerals is a mining and exploration company with corporate offices in Perth, Australia and Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It has operations in Peru and Australia. In Zambia it owned the Lumwana Mining Company, but that was bought by Barrick Gold in 2011.[3] Through Liontown Resources Limited and Alturas Minerals Corp., the company has gold and copper-gold exploration interests in Peru and Australia.[4] The Lumwana project which had enough reserves to be productive for 37 years, cost the company one billion dollars to develop.[5][6] In Zambia it has been credited with supporting social development through projects which aim to build schools, attract professionals to areas around its mine sites.[7] 2010 copper production was 323.4 million pounds (146,690 tonnes) 68% higher than in 2009 (192.1 million pounds).[1]