Page 92 1 800 990 2263 b vminin f oc abur ea uv erit as c om w w w bur ea uv erit as c om um A s sa ying and Ge o chemic al A naly sis Me t allur gy and Miner alo gy Sp e c tr al Ser vic e s Mine Site Lab or a torie s B u r e a u V er i t a s Mi ner a l s A naly tic al L ab or a tor y Ser vic e s f or the Explor a tion Mining Industrie s EXP ANSION L AB IN TIMMINS V ANCO UVER WHITEHOR SE TIMMINS RICHMOND Me t lab B y Gregory Reynolds Detour Gold Corporation is planning to begin developmen t in 2019 of a sec ond mine on its Detour Lake property in Northeastern Ontario The W est Detour Project consists of two pits the North pit containing 187000 ounces of gold in reserves and the W est Detour pit containing reserves of 17 million ounces of gold The two pits have a mineral reserves of 18 million ounces of gold 609 million tonnes averaging 094 gt In the life of mine released in March 2017 the development of the North pit is scheduled to start in 2019 using a contractor at a maximum rate of 7 Mt per year due to the small size of the pit The development of the W est Detour pit is scheduled to commence in 2025 ramping up to a maximum mining rate of 35 Mt per year It assumes initial contractor prestrip ping followed by a combin ation of small equipment and shared usage of the Detour Lake pit feet The company contemplates using the W est Detour pit once depleted for tailings andor waste rock deposition It signed in 2017 an amended Im pact Beneft Agreement with T aykwa T agamou Nation to include the W est Detour Project The company is currently in the pro cess of permitting the W est Detour Project It fled an Environmental Study Report ESR with provincial authorities at the end of January 2017 The Detour Lake open pit mine is lo cated approximately 300 kilometres northeast of T immins and 185 kilo metres by road northeast of Cochrane within the northernmost Abitibi Greenstone Belt The operation is situated in the area of the historic Detour Lake open pit under ground mine operated by Placer Dome which produced 18 million ounces of gold from 1983 to 1999 The company also has the Burntbush Property in Ontario An airborne geo physical survey was completed in 2017 It is located on a major deformation zone west of Hecla s Casa Berardi Detour Gold s second mine moves closer to development Contd on pg 92