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comprise the following: |
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Mill - The
1000 tonne/day mill is 90% complete. |
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Road - A 170
km winter road connects the site to the Liard Highway. The road was last
used in 1981/82 to equip the mill and mine site. |
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Airstrip - A
1,000 m gravel airstrip is located approximately 1 km to the north of the
camp. |
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Tailings
Disposal - A tailings impoundment area is immediately adjacent to and
northwest of the camp. |
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Camp
Accommodations - Trailer accommodations for 240 people are on site with
kitchen facilities to meet a full camp complement of employees. |
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Maintenance
Shops - Well equipped machine shop and heavy equipment shop. |
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Heavy
Equipment fleet including Bulldozers, Loaders, Cranes, all terrain dump
trucks, self loading scrapers, cement trucks, a portable crushing
screening and concrete batching plant, an excavator, a Dragline and
numerous other items of good quality construction equipment. |
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Office and
Warehouse - Office and warehouse facilities include a dry, first aid, mine
rescue and recreation facilities. |
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Laboratory - A
pre-engineering laboratory building exists behind the mill. |
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Power Supply -
Four 1.1 megawatt Cooper Bessemer diesel powered generators and two
smaller standby generators. |
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Fuel Supply
and Storage - Bulk capacity steel diesel storage tanks containing around
400,000 gallons of diesel fuel and gasoline tanks with associated loading,
unloading and pumping facilities. A number of large capacity propane tanks
containing in excess of 100 tons of propane, support heating for the camp
and the mine. |
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Three levels
of underground workings are developed on the vein with the mill level
being the lowest. |
