Page 14 Page 14 MLEN SPRING 2020 By Kevin V incent W awa V al dOr Thunder Bay If you owned a fam ily restaurant in those three communities chances are youd be on a frstname basis with the men and women who work for W esdome W esdome Gold Mines has had over 30 years of continuous gold mining operations in Canada The Company is 100 Canadian focused with a trio of projects in various stages of development The company s strategy is to build Canada s next inter mediate gold producer bringing to market 200000 ounces from two mines in Ontario and Quebec President and CEO Duncan Middlemiss says the start to 2020 like it was for mining operations around the world was unique It s certainly been a challenging time if anyone had ever asked me if they had been through a pandemic no one re ally has W e are very fortunate that we had no inci dents he added The company instituted strict protocols at its opera tions and was able to avoid any dramatic events related to the COVID19 outbreak W esdome con ducted external temperature testing on everyone coming to site at the property one and a half hours away from W awa The Eagle River Complex in W awa is currently pro ducing gold from two mines the Eagle River Under ground Mine and the Mishi Open pit from a central mill W esdome is actively exploring its brownfelds asset the Kiena Complex in V al dOr Quebec The Kiena Complex is a fully permitted former mine with Building Canada s Next MidT ier Gold Producer The W esdome Gold Mines Kiena gold mine near V al dOr Quebec a 930metre shaft and 2000 tonneperday mill The company has further upside at its Moss Lake gold deposit located 100 kilometres west of Thunder Bay Ontario The company announced positive results from an independent Preliminary Economic Assessment pre pared in accordance with National Instrument 43101 at the 100 owned Kiena Complex in V al dOr In an exclusive interview with Mining Life Explora tion News see our Y ouT ube channel Middlemiss says the company lost about seven weeks of the ad vanced exploration program at Kiena In the meantime the company was able to maintain market guidance by forecasting production of 90000 to 100000 ounces in 2020 at Eagle River up from an average of 50000 ounces in prior years The narrow vein highgrade mine has been operating for more than 20 years The increased gold output is largely a refection of higher grades The company is enjoy ing about 14gm 5 ounces per ton thanks to targeted production eforts Historically W esdome did not spend a lot of money on exploration but now with the price of gold in a stable highproft price range W esdome like other mining companies is spending the dollars to expand reserves W e didnt get very far out of the mine s footprint about 300 metres and we hit another zone which actually connects to the mine said Middlemiss So it s look ing good it s been very good The company has seven drills turning at Eagle River Contd on pg 16