Overview
Stage | Permitting |
Mine Type | Open Pit & Underground |
Commodities |
|
Mining Method |
- Longhole open stoping
- Truck & Shovel / Loader
- Cemented rockfill
- Unconsolidated rockfill
|
Production Start | ... |
Mine Life | 13.5 years (as of Jan 1, 2021) |
Goliath Gold Complex ("GGC" or the "Project") includes the Goliath, Goldlund and Miller deposits.
The Goliath Gold Project completed its federal Environmental Assessment with the federal government approval on August 19, 2019, when the Honorable Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, announced in her decision that the proposed Goliath Gold Project may proceed.
The Project, as proposed by Treasury, consists of the construction, operation, decommissioning, and remediation of an open-pit and underground gold mine and associated infrastructure located 20 km east of the City of Dryden, Ontario. The Company continues to complete requirements for final authorizations and permits. |
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The Goliath Gold Project is held 100% by the Company, subject to certain underlying royalties and payment obligations on certain patented land parcels, totalling about $105,000 per year.
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Deposit Types
The Goliath Project hosts a hybrid deposit-type model, also known as a “Pre-orogenic Atypical Greenstone Belt Gold Model” as a promising genetic model to explain the geology, structures and mineralisation observed within the Goliath deposit. In this model, early gold-rich volcanogenic sulphide mineralisation is overprinted by subsequent deformation and alteration events which can contribute to further concentration and/or remobilising of both precious and base metals. This model also integrates potential VMS and Magmatic Hydrothermal Archean Lode Gold Deposit (“Magmatic Hydrothermal”) models in the formation of the deposit. It is likely that the Goliath deposit does not fit into any one idealised model and neither should be discounted.
The Goldlund Project hosts Archean, shear zone-hosted quartz vein mineralisation (Archean lode- gold), occurring as extensional quartz vein systems, particularly between rocks with high competency contrast. Archean lode-gold deposits occur in a broad range of structural settings, and at different crustal levels, but they share a similarity in ore fluid characteristics. Mineralisation is typically late tectonic, occurring after the main phases of regional thrusting and folding, and generally late-syn to post-peak metamorphism with most of the significant deposits in areas of greenschist facies. Many deposits are related to the reactivation of earlier structures.
Archean lode-gold occurrences are common i ........
Mining Methods
- Longhole open stoping
- Truck & Shovel / Loader
- Cemented rockfill
- Unconsolidated rockfill
Summary:
The mine designs and schedule for both the open pit and underground utilise inferred resources as part of the analysis. Mineral resources that are not mineral reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability. The preliminary economic assessment is preliminary in nature in that it includes inferred mineral resources that are considered too speculative to have economic considerations applied to them and should not be relied upon for that purpose.
The Goliath Gold Complex PEA is based on the mining of three deposits: Goliath, Goldlund and Miller. All three areas would be mined by open pit methods, with Goliath also being mined by underground methods beneath the open pit.
The mine schedule provides 24.0 Mt of mill feed grading 1.47 g/t gold and 1.82 g/t silver over a 13.5-year mine life after one year of pre-stripping. The open pit mining sequence begins with Goliath in pre-production and then Goldlund starts in Year 1. Miller is started in Year 6 and finishes in Year 9. At that time, open pit mining is complete. The underground mine at Goliath starts in Year 3 with first delivery of mill feed in Year 4. Underground mining continues until Year 11. The processing facility will continue to be fed from stockpiles at Goliath until the middle of Year 14.
Mill feed from Goldlund and Miller are proposed to be transported to the Goliath process plant site with highway tractors and belly dump trucks. This transport will require the use of a portion of ........
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Projected Production:
Commodity | Units | Avg. Annual | LOM |
Gold
|
koz
| 79 | 1,064 |
Silver
|
koz
| | ...... |
All production numbers are expressed as payable metal.
Operational Metrics:
Metrics | |
Daily processing capacity
| ...... |
Annual ore mining rate
| ...... |
Annual processing capacity
| ...... |
Stripping / waste ratio
| ...... |
Waste tonnes, LOM
| ...... |
Ore tonnes mined, LOM
| ...... |
Total tonnes mined, LOM
| ...... |
Tonnes processed, LOM
| ...... |
* According to 2021 study.
Reserves at December 16, 2020:
This mineral resource estimate covers the Goliath deposit, the Goldlund deposit, and the Miller deposit.
The mineral resources, which contained Silver, are given only for Goliath deposit.
Category | OreType | Tonnage | Commodity | Grade | Contained Metal |
Measured
|
In-Situ (OP)
|
1,471 kt
|
Gold
|
1.9 g/t
|
90 koz
|
Measured
|
In-Situ (UG)
|
98 kt
|
Gold
|
4.94 g/t
|
16 koz
|
Measured
|
Total
|
1,569 kt
|
Gold
|
2.09 g/t
|
105 koz
|
Measured
|
In-Situ (OP)
|
1,471 kt
|
Silver
|
6.7 g/t
|
316,700 oz
|
Measured
|
In-Situ (UG)
|
98 kt
|
Silver
|
20.8 g/t
|
65,300 oz
|
Measured
|
Total
|
1,569 kt
|
Silver
|
7.58 g/t
|
382,000 oz
|
Indicated
|
In-Situ (OP)
|
51,256 kt
|
Gold
|
0.97 g/t
|
1,597 koz
|
Indicated
|
In-Situ (UG)
|
2,592 kt
|
Gold
|
3.16 g/t
|
263 koz
|
Indicated
|
Total
|
53,848 kt
|
Gold
|
1.07 g/t
|
1,860 koz
|
Indicated
|
In-Situ (OP)
|
26,956 kt
|
Silver
|
3 g/t
|
2,591,400 oz
|
Indicated
|
In-Situ (UG)
|
2,592 kt
|
Silver
|
7.6 g/t
|
632,700 oz
|
Indicated
|
Total
|
29,548 kt
|
Silver
|
3.39 g/t
|
3,224,100 oz
|
Measured & Indicated
|
In-Situ (OP)
|
52,727 kt
|
Gold
|
1 g/t
|
1,687 koz
|
Measured & Indicated
|
In-Situ (UG)
|
2,690 kt
|
Gold
|
3.22 g/t
|
279 koz
|
Measured & Indicated
|
Total
|
55,417 kt
|
Gold
|
1.1 g/t
|
1,965 koz
|
Measured & Indicated
|
In-Situ (OP)
|
28,426 kt
|
Silver
|
3.2 g/t
|
2,908,100 oz
|
Measured & Indicated
|
In-Situ (UG)
|
2,690 kt
|
Silver
|
8.1 g/t
|
698,000 oz
|
Measured & Indicated
|
Total
|
31,116 kt
|
Silver
|
3.6 g/t
|
3,606,100 oz
|
Inferred
|
In-Situ (OP)
|
20,025 kt
|
Gold
|
0.65 g/t
|
415 koz
|
Inferred
|
In-Situ (UG)
|
937 kt
|
Gold
|
3.75 g/t
|
113 koz
|
Inferred
|
Total
|
20,962 kt
|
Gold
|
0.78 g/t
|
528 koz
|
Inferred
|
In-Situ (OP)
|
3,644 kt
|
Silver
|
2.1 g/t
|
247,000 oz
|
Inferred
|
In-Situ (UG)
|
704 kt
|
Silver
|
5.6 g/t
|
125,900 oz
|
Inferred
|
Total
|
4,348 kt
|
Silver
|
2.67 g/t
|
372,900 oz
|
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