Luzenac, an Imerys company, operates the largest talc mine in the southern hemisphere just outside the Three Springs townsite.
The end came on 30 November 2007 and confirmed that Imerys was moving its operation to Brazil.
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Sérigny is close to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, heads numerous companies, and a member of the board of directors of Imerys, a mining company partially owned by a subsidiary of the Power Corporation of Canada and majority owned by the Desmarais family and tycoon Albert Frère, the richest man in Belgium who was involved in the UN Oil-for-Food scandal.