Giant pile of cyanide-laced rocks collapsed at an outdoors gold processing facility at the mine operated by Victoria Gold Corp. triggering a massive landslide
Victoria Gold's Eagle gold mine site in the Yukon on July 3, 2024 a little over a week after a landslide was caused by collapsing rocks.The Yukon is looking at tightening its oversight of the mining industry as a cleanup and risk mitigation effort continues after a devastating heap leach failure at a gold mine last month.June 24 at an outdoors gold processing facility at the Eagle mine operated by Victoria Gold Corp. triggering a massive landslide.
The Yukon government has been overseeing the company’s cleanup efforts and in the absence of in-depth disclosure from Victoria Gold, the territory has been providing almost all of the information about the accident.
The Eagle mine is located about 375 kilometres north of Whitehorse and 85 kilometres north of the village of Mayo, on the traditional territory of the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyak Dun. For generations, its members have hunted, trapped and fished in the vicinity of the mine.
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