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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 Qu¨¦bec, 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
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