Page 8 145 billion Detour Lake Mine speeding towards 2013 opening Industry L e ading T urnar ound Time E xpert Geochemistry Support Expert Client Services Str ong T echnical P artnerships in Chemistry and Metal lur gy C or eVie w er T echnology Best in the Busines s Fo r mor e inf ormation scan this QR c ode or visit www alsglobalc om Phone 1 7055607225 Contd on pg 09 Like PGM Detour Gold Corporation DGC plans to resume mining for gold using an open pit mine in an area that was previously a successful gold mine But the open pit mine planned for Detour Lake is unlike any that has been developed before It will be the world s lar gest open pit gold mine measuring 3 km in length 15 km in width and more than 550 metres deep said Drew Anwyll Director of Operations Detour Gold Corporation The Detour Lake mine is located 185 kilometres northeast from the town of Cochrane a community of 5000 residents and is easily accessible by road via Provincial Highway 652 ex tension The deposit is situated in the area of the former Detour Lake mine that was operated by Placer Dome and produced 18 million ounces of gold from 1983 to 1999 The old Detour Mine was closed and reclaimed as moose pasture in 2000 said Anwyll But in 2007 the current CEO of the company Gerald Pan neton recognized the potential to op erate an open pit mine Anwyll added that the new mine at Detour Lake is well on the road to becoming a leading intermediate gold company W eve got more than 15 million ounces in reserves which mean we may have 21 years of min ing he said Over that time Detour Lake will mine on average 657000 oz of gold annually with a through put of 55000 tonnes of ore per a day Anwyll add ed Anwyll said Detour Lake s develop ment is 90 complete and anticipated the mine will be in production by Jan uary 2013 In 201 1 Detour completed its mineral reserve study and in September 2012 the updated mine plan for production was released A 45 km transmission line was com pleted and drilling took place on an area known as Block A W e are in the process of commission ing the site and will start gold produc tion in January 2013 said Anwyll W e will have 2 million tonnes of ore stored to prepare for plant start up Y ou get a sense that this is a very big operation Anwyll stated It s a big mine not high grade the quan tity of gold will depend on volume of through put The grade of gold at Detour is about 1 gt but our strength is through size and through put not grade According to Anwyll there are cur rently 1600 people on site mainly for construction of the mine facilities and process plant There are currently over 400 Detour Gold employees who actually work at the mine site and that number will ramp up to almost 450 in the new year Most of the labour at Detour Lake is recruited from the Cochrane Hearst Iroquois Falls Kapuskasing the First Nations in the area and T immins and Sudbury DGC had to build a facility that is attractive enough for our workers as a way to fend of f competition for la bour Ef fort was expended in retrain ing workers who used to work in the By Frank Giorno