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Westwood Mine
The Westwood gold project is located on the Doyon property in the municipality of Preissac, in Bousquet Township, approximately 40 km east of the town of Rouyn-Noranda, in the province of Québec, Canada.The first reported exploration activities in the Cadillac area date back to 1910. Mineralization at Doyon was discovered in the 1960's by the prospector Arthur Doyon.The Westwood project is planned for commercial production in early 2013.
Mining Method: underground
Commodity: Gold
Estimated Mine Life(yrs): 16
Start Date: 2013
Reserves/Resources: Resources Inferred - 9.4 Mt at 11.4 g/t gold for 3.4 Moz. (2010)
Products: 2.975 Moz of gold (over the LOM)
Owner: Iamgold
country/region: CANADA
Continent: North America
| Wolverine Mine
Wolverine zinc-silver mine is located 190 kilometers northwest of Watson Lake in southeast Yukon Territory, Canada. The mine is owned by Yukon Zinc Corporation a private company majority owned by JDC (Jinduicheng Molybdenum Group Mining Co., Ltd ). JDC is the top Asian molybdenum producer and the same time the world’s third largest molybdenum producer.Wolverine is an underground mine that has on-site milling capabilities of 1,700 tonnes per day to produce zinc, copper and lead concentrate. The mill was commissioned in 2010 and as of 2012 production is increasing to design capacity.
Mining Method: underground
Commodity: Zinc, Silver, Copper, Lead, Gold
Estimated Mine Life(yrs): To 2022
Reserves/Resources: Copper - 103 Mlbs (proven & probable, June 2011);
Zinc - 1.09 billion lbs;
Lead - 142.76 Mlbs;
Silver - 46.7 Moz;
Gold - 225.18 Koz
Owner: Jinduicheng Canada Resources Corporation Limited
country/region: CANADA
Continent: North America
| Cerro Casale Mine
Cerro Casale is a porphyry gold-copper mining project located in northern Chile, South America in mountainous terrain with elevations ranging from 3,800 to 4,400 m. It is located 145 km southeast of the city of Copiapo.Proven and Probable Mineral Reserves estimated for 23.2 Moz contained gold and 5.8 Mlb contained copper. Proposed mine life based on the current mineral reserve is 20 years for the mine and 18 years for the process plant. Pre-stripping would start in 2012.
Mining Method: open pit
Commodity: Gold, Copper
Estimated Mine Life(yrs): 20
Reserves/Resources: 1,212,885 t grading 0.59 g/t gold 0.22% Copper 1.51 g/t Silver containing 23.17 Moz gold 5,782 Mlbs Copper 58.720 Moz Silver (Reserves - Feb/10)
Products: 16.8 Moz gold4,832 Mlb Copper
36.5 Moz Silver (over the LOM)
Owner: Barrick Gold Corp (75%), Kinross Gold Corp (30%)
country/region: CHILE
Continent: South America
| La Coipa Mine
The La Coipa open pit mine is located in the Atacama Region of northern Chile, approximately 1,000 kilometres north of Santiago and 140 kilometres northwest of the community of Copiapó.The mine operates three open pits: Ladera Ferellon, Coipa Norte and Puren.
Mining Method: open pit
Commodity: Gold, Silver
Estimated Mine Life(yrs): To 2011 if no new reserve found
Reserves/Resources: 1.1moz @1.3g/t Au 38 moz @44g/t Ag (Dec 31, 2009, proven and probable reserves)
Products: 231 koz Au (2009)
105t Ag (2008)
Owner: Kinross
country/region: CHILE
Continent: South America
| Maricunga Mine
The Maricunga open pit mine is located in the Maricunga mining district in central-east Chile. The property is approximately 120 kilometres east of Copiapó and is between 4,200 metres and 4,500 metres above sea level.The Verde and Pancho gold deposits at Maricunga occur in the Maricunga Gold Belt of the high Andes in northern Chile. Since 1980, a total of 40 million ounces of gold have been defined in the belt,.
Mining Method: open pit
Commodity: Gold
Estimated Mine Life(yrs): to 2024
Reserves/Resources: Gold 6.4m oz
(Dec 31, 2009, proven and probable reserves)
Products: Gold 234k oz in 2009
Owner: Kinross
country/region: CHILE
Continent: South America
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