WHITEHORSE, YUKON — A Yukon mine inspector has ordered Victoria Gold to shore up its water treatment efforts, finding the company's plan to clean up after a ...
WHITEHORSE, YUKON — A Yukon mine inspector has ordered Victoria Gold to shore up its water treatment efforts, finding the company's plan to clean up after a disastrous spill of cyanide-laced-rock and water last month at its Eagle Gold mine is insufficient.
The company's "groundwater interception plan" is also insufficient because it doesn't describe how it would "effectively" intercept groundwater in the Dublin Gulch valley, the document says.About two million tonnes of ore spilled over an embankment in the heap leach facility at the mine site on June 24, resulting in a landslide 1.5 kilometres long and the escape of about 300 million litres of the cyanide solution.
“The Government of Yukon is applying a progressive enforcement approach to the Eagle Gold failure response," the statement said. "The inspector’s directions issued on Saturday build on the previous ones and are based on our updated understanding of the site conditions and potential risks." Newton said both the territorial and federal governments should take on a greater role and should treat the heap leach facility failure as "the emergency that it is."
In a public statement issued July 12, Victoria Gold said production at the mine has been suspended, and may never restart without government authorization.
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