Panama has authorized the sale of copper concentrate at First Quantum's shuttered Cobre Panama mine, President Jose Raul Mulino said on Thursday, boosting shares in the Canadian miner by 15% to a two-month high on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Panama’s President Mulino said he will begin a review next week of First Quantum's shuttered Cobre Panama copper mine and ordered the restart of a power plant needed to operate a nearby port

First Quantum Minerals Ltd. was cleared to begin shipping out stockpiled copper in Panama, the latest sign authorities may be willing to negotiate a restart of the company’s giant shuttered mine.

D-Wave Quantum Inc. said today a peer-reviewed scientific paper proves it has finally passed a critical threshold and achieved “quantum supremacy” — that is, the point at which its quantum computers have finally solved a problem that’s impossible for even the most powerful “classical” computers to do.

The company says it has solved the first problem of scientific relevance with a quantum processor faster than it would be done with classical computers.