Page 14 FORSIGHT Goldcorp Por cupine Gold Mines Revisiting the past to ensur e its futur e Nothing gets left behind Marc Lauzier MGM HINDSIGHT BRINGS Plus Regional exploration continues Borden s big bulk sample on its way and Dome s Century expansion nears Feasibility study stage Pierr e Noel Communications CSR Coor dinator PGM As the mining industry adopts new technologies to make operations safer more efcient proftabl and sustainable GoldcorpPorcupine Gold Mines applies innovative ideas to review its long and rich history in an exercise aimed at strengthening the sustainability of its operations The idea isn t new says Marc Lauzier Porcupine Gold Mine s General Manager It s how we are doing it that s innovative and dif ferent from the days when we were mining these historical ore bodies Since last year PGM has been conducting retroactive regional prospectivity analyses of its pre viously mined properties to see if there is the possibility of fnding more ore bodies that were perhaps previously under defned or undis covered due to technological limi tations at the time they were being mined years and decades ago in some cases Mr Lauzier explains the process W eve compiled all of the data we have from our historical sites and were looking back to the up per and mid sections of Hoyle un der ground operations which have already been mined W e do this by layering various sets of data such as geophysics drilling soil sampling structural data all are layered over one another Anything that is red on the map is a hot spot or a high prospectivity area for fnding gold and that s where we will focus our eforts W e do all this to say with greater assurance that weve explored every oppor tunity to increase our reserves and that nothing gets left behind where weve been PGM is spending 84M in explo ration in the Porcupine Camp 5M of which is for Hoyle Pond and 34M for the rest of the region Revisiting the Past Photo GoldcorpPorcupine Gold Mines Aerial view of Borden Gold Project Page 12