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Eight gold mines operated here between 1936 and 1970. Tom Powers and Phil Silams staked what became the Northern Empire Mine (1925–1988) near Beardmore, which produced a total of 149,493 ounces of gold. The Little Long Lac Mine (1934–1953) produced 605,449 ounces of gold, besides producing scheelite. J.M. Wood and W.T. Brown developed the ...
Open pit mine in Val-d'Or, Quebec. The Abitibi gold belt is a region of Canada that extends from Wawa, Ontario to Val-d'Or, Quebec.Located within the mineral-rich Abitibi greenstone belt, the gold belt is an established gold mining district having produced over 100 mines, and 170 million ounces of gold since 1901.
Matachewan is on the southwest portion of the Abitibi greenstone belt and within the Abitibi gold belt.Between 1933 and 1957, the Young-Davidson Mine and the Matachewan Consolidated Mine produced 9.6 million tonnes of ore containing 3.1 grams of gold per ton and 0.93 grams per ton of silver.
Gold mines in the Mid West region. The Duketon North Operations, with the Moolart Well Gold Mine, consists of a number of open pit operations which feed a crusher and a ball mill. [5] The Duketon South Operations' Garden Well Gold Mine consists of a number of open pit operations and an underground operation which commenced in 2021.
Gold quartz veins and lenticular reefs occur in the shear zone between the Upper Birimian phyllites and the Lower Birimian greenstones. Gold mines include the Obuasi Gold Mine, and those located at Prestea, Konongo, Hiré, Poura, Kalana, and Sabodala. Placer gold deposits are mined at Siguiri, Ity, and on the Ofin River. [11] [12]
Granite and granite pegmatite (2545 ± 30 Ma) intrude metasedimentary rock of the Miners Delight Formation in the western part of the greenstone belt. The South Pass pluton is a pegmatitic granite west of South Pass City, and the Sweetwater granite is a fine-to medium-grained leucocratic granite that occurs to the west of the South Pass pluton along the Sweetwater River and Lander Creek.
The mine was scheduled to reopen in late 2008 [2] but delays experienced forced APEX to postpone this date to mid-2010. [3] Gidgee was part of a never implemented three mine production strategy by the company, together with the Wiluna Gold Mine and the Youanmi Gold Mine. The mine is located in the Gum Creek Greenstone Belt. [4]
Alamos Gold is engaged in the mining and extraction of, and exploration for, precious metals, primarily gold. Alamos owns and operates three mines, including the Young-Davidson Mine and the Island Gold Mine in Ontario, Canada and the Mulatos Mine in Sonora, Mexico. In 2022, the Young-Davidson mine produced 195,000 ounces of gold, the Island ...