• Data Access
  • Your Email  
  • Your Email  
Keep me signed in.
Forgot your password?
Close
  • Forgot Your Password?
  • Enter the email you signed up with and we'll email it to you.
  • Your Email  
Close
Back
MDO
Mining Data Solutions
  • Home
  • Database
  • Subscribe
  • Sign In
  • Sign In
Canada
Canadian Malartic Mine

This page is not tailored to
devices with screen width under 750 px.
 Location:
3 km S from Malartic, Quebec, Canada

  Address:
100, Chemin du Lac Mourier
Malartic
Quebec, Canada
J0Y 1Z0
Phone819-757-2225
Fax819-757-2351
EmailEmail
WebsiteWeb
Additional Resources for Suppliers & Investors
Drill results over 30 g/t Au
Stay on top of recent discoveries.
Search drill results by commodity and grade.
Largest mines in the Americas
Mining and mill throughput capaciites.
Full profiles of select mines and projects.
Deepest underground mines
Shaft depth and mill throughput data.
Full profiles of select mines and projects.
Heavy mobile equipment
HME type, model, size and quantity.
Full profiles of select mines and projects.
Permitting and construction projects
Projects at the permitting or construction stage. Full profiles of select projects.
Mines with remote camps
Camp size, mine location and contacts.
Full profiles of select mines and projects.
Mines & projects in Canada
A list of country's mines and projects.
Full profiles of select mines and projects.
  • Overview
  • Owners
  • Geology
  • Mining
  • Processing
  • Production
  • Reserves
  • Costs & Financials
  • Fleet
  • Personnel
  • Filings & News

Thank you for browsing through mine profiles compiled by the Mining Data Online team.

Would you like to subcribe or schedule a Demo?
  • Name:
     
  • Company:
     
  • Position:
     
  • Phone:
  • Email:
  • Message:

Overview

StageProduction
Mine TypeOpen Pit
Commodities
  • Gold
  • Silver
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
Processing
  • Smelting
  • Carbon re-activation kiln
  • Agitated tank (VAT) leaching
  • Carbon in pulp (CIP)
  • Elution
  • Carbon adsorption-desorption-recovery (ADR)
  • Solvent Extraction & Electrowinning
  • Cyanide (reagent)
Mine Life2039
Canadian Malartic is one of the largest operating gold mines in Canada.
Latest NewsAgnico Eagle Announces Virtual Meeting for the 2021 Annual Meeting of Shareholders; Appointment of Leona Aglukkaq to the Board of Directors...     March 25, 2021


Owners

Source: p. 65
CompanyInterestOwnership
Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. 50 % Indirect
Yamana Gold Inc. 50 % Indirect
Yamana Gold acquired its 50% interest in the Canadian Malartic property on June 16, 2014 through its joint acquisition of Osisko with Agnico Eagle and operates through the Canadian Malartic GP.

Deposit Type

  • Porphyry
  • Breccia pipe / Stockwork

Source: Source p.43-44

Summary:

The Canadian Malartic property straddles the southern margin of the eastern portion of the Abitibi Subprovince, an Archean greenstone belt situated in the southeastern part of the Superior Province of the Canadian Shield. The Abitibi Subprovince is limited to the north by gneisses and plutons of the Opatica Subprovince, and to the south by metasediments and intrusive rocks of the Pontiac Subprovince. The contact between the Pontiac Subprovince and the rocks of the Abitibi greenstone belt is characterized by a major fault corridor, the east-west trending Larder Lake – Cadillac Fault Zone (‘‘LLCFZ’’). This structure runs from Larder Lake, Ontario through Rouyn-Noranda, Cadillac, Malartic, Val d’Or and Louvicourt, Quebec, at which point it is truncated by the Grenville Front.
´
The regional stratigraphy of the southeastern Abitibi area is divided into groups of alternating volcanic and sedimentary rocks, generally oriented at N280 – N330 and separated by fault zones. The main lithostratigraphic divisions in this region are, from south to north, the Pontiac Group of the Pontiac Subprovince and the Piche, Cadillac, Blake River, Kewagama and Malartic groups of the Abitibi Subprovince. The various lithological groups within the Abitibi Subprovince are metamorphosed to greenschist facies. Metamorphic grade increases toward the southern limit of the Abitibi belt, where rocks of the Piche Group and the northern part of the Pontiac Group have been metamorphosed to upper greenschist facies.

The majority of the Canadian Malartic property is underlain by metasedimentary units of the Pontiac Group, lying immediately south of the LLCFZ. The north-central portion of the property covers an approximately 9.5 kilometre section of the LLCFZ corridor and is underlain by mafic-ultramafic metavolcanic rocks of the Piche Group cut by intermediate porphyritic and mafic intrusions. The Cadillac Group covers the northern part of the property (north of the LLCFZ). It consists of greywacke containing lenses of conglomerate.

Mineralization
Surface drilling by Lac Minerals Ltd. in the 1980s defined several near-surface mineralized zones now included in the Canadian Malartic deposit (the F, P, A, Wolfe and Gilbert zones), all expressions of a larger, continuous mineralized system located at depth around the historical underground workings of the Canadian Malartic and Sladen mines. In addition to these, the Western Porphyry Zone occurs one kilometre northeast of the main Canadian Malartic deposit and the Gouldie mineralized zone occurs approximately 1.2 kilometres southeast of the main Canadian Malartic deposit. Approximately 1.5 kilometres to the east is the Odyssey deposit, with mineralization associated with a fault along both hanging wall and footwall contacts of a 300 metre wide dioritic intrusive.

Mineralization in the Canadian Malartic deposit occurs as a continuous shell of 1% to 5% disseminated pyrite associated with fine native gold and traces of chalcopyrite, sphalerite and tellurides. The gold mineral resource is mostly hosted by altered clastic sediments of the Pontiac Group (70%) overlying an epizonal dioritic porphyry intrusion. A portion of the deposit also occurs in the upper portions of the porphyry body (30%).

The South Barnat deposit is located to the north and south of the old South Barnat and East Malartic mine workings, largely along the southern edge of the LLCFZ. The disseminated/stockwork gold mineralization at South Barnat is hosted both in potassic-altered, silicified greywackes of the Pontiac Group (south of the fault contact) and in potassic-altered porphyry dykes and schistose, carbonatized and biotitic ultramafic rocks (north of the fault contact). The East Gouldie Zone, discovered in late 2018, is included in the Pontiac sedimentary sequence, south of the Larder-Lake Cadillac Deformation Zone. The gold mineralization is associated within a shear zone accompanied by silica alteration and very fine disseminated pyrite of 1% to 2%.

Several mineralized zones have been documented within the LLCFZ (South Barnat, Buckshot, East Malartic, Jeffrey, Odyssey, East Amphi, Fourax), most of which are generally spatially associated with stockworks and disseminations within mafic or intermediate porphyritic intrusions.


Mining Methods

  • Truck & Shovel / Loader

Source: p.41

Summary:

Mining at the Canadian Malartic mine is by open pit method with excavators and trucks, using large scale equipment. The primary loading tools are hydraulic excavators, with wheel loaders used as a secondary loading tool. The mine production schedule was developed to feed the mill at a nominal rate of 55,000 tonnes per day. The continuity and consistency of the mineralization, coupled with tight definition drilling, that has been confirmed by many years of mining operations, demonstrates the amenability of the mineral reserves and mineral resources to the selected mining method.


Crushing and Grinding
Source: Source p.1
Crusher / Mill TypeModelSizePowerQuantity
Gyratory crusher 1
Cone crusher 4
SAG mill 1
Ball mill 3

Summary:

Ore is processed at the Canadian Malartic mineral processing complex, which has a 55,000-tonnes/day nominal throughput capacity. Ore is transported to a crushing circuit and the crushed ore is stockpiled in a covered pile, then conveyed to the semi-autogenous grinding circuit followed by three identical ball mills, each in closed circuit with hydro-cyclones.


Processing

  • Smelting
  • Carbon re-activation kiln
  • Agitated tank (VAT) leaching
  • Carbon in pulp (CIP)
  • Elution
  • Carbon adsorption-desorption-recovery (ADR)
  • Solvent Extraction & Electrowinning
  • Cyanide (reagent)

Flow Sheet: Source

Summary:

Ore is processed at the Canadian Malartic mineral processing complex, which has a 55,000-tonnes/day nominal throughput capacity. Ore is transported to a crushing circuit and the crushed ore is stockpiled in a covered pile, then conveyed to the semi-autogenous grinding circuit followed by three identical ball mills, each in closed circuit with hydro-cyclones. The slurry is thickened to about 50% solids before being fed to the leach tank circuit for conventional cyanidation followed by carbon-in-pulp processing technology. The product is doré bars containing gold and silver.

To reduce the environmental impact, tailings are thickened and detoxified prior to being pumped to a tailings impoundment facility. Excess water is mainly re-used in the plant or treated prior to being discharged to the receiving environment.

Recoveries & Grades:

CommodityParameter2020201920182017201620152014
Gold Recovery Rate, % 87.488.788.388.689.388.888.8
Gold Head Grade, g/t 0.971.111.21.091.041.051
Silver Recovery Rate, % 75.3767279.67774.8
Silver Head Grade, g/t 1.651.751.451.351.271.19
^ Guidance / Forecast.

Production:

CommodityUnits2021202020192018201720162015
Gold oz 700,000 ^568,634669,191697,200633,461585,027571,617
Silver koz 696842873682680601
All production numbers are expressed as payable metal. ^ Guidance / Forecast.

Operational Metrics:

Metrics202020192018201720162015
Tonnes milled 20,799,764 t21,049,062 t20,483,740 t20,357,606 t19,641,392 t19,089,526 t
Ore tonnes mined 24,025,386 t29,285,616 t
Waste 21,298,814 t27,560,768 t
Daily milling rate 56,832 t57,669 t56,121 t55,774 t53,665 t52,300 t
Daily processing capacity 57,000 t55,000 t55,000 t55,000 t55,000 t55,000 t
^ Guidance / Forecast.

Reserves at December 31, 2020:
Mineral Reserves: Open pit cut-off grades range from 0.39 to 0.40 g/t gold.

Mineral Resources: Canadian Malartic, Barnat and other zones cut-off grades range from 0.29 to 0.40 g/t gold inside pit, and from 1.15 to 1.20 g/t gold outside or below pit (stope optimized); Underground cut-off grade at Odyssey is 1.00 to 1.30 g/t gold (stope optimized); Underground cut-off grade at East Malartic is 1.10 to 1.40 g/t gold (stope optimized); Underground cut-off grade at East Gouldie is 1.10 to 1.25 g/t gold (stope optimized).

CategoryOreTypeTonnage CommodityGradeContained Metal
Proven In-Situ (OP) 50,740 kt Gold 0.85 g/t 1,392 koz
Probable In-Situ (OP) 72,136 kt Gold 1.31 g/t 3,036 koz
Proven & Probable In-Situ (OP) 122,876 kt Gold 1.12 g/t 4,428 koz
Measured In-Situ (OP) 298 kt Gold 0.55 g/t 6 koz
Indicated In-Situ (OP) 5,132 kt Gold 1.24 g/t 206 koz
Indicated In-Situ (UG) 13,316 kt Gold 2 g/t 858 koz
Indicated Total 18,450 kt Gold 1.79 g/t 1,064 koz
Measured & Indicated In-Situ (OP) 5,430 kt Gold 1.21 g/t 210 koz
Measured & Indicated In-Situ (UG) 13,316 kt Gold 2 g/t 858 koz
Measured & Indicated Total 18,746 kt Gold 1.77 g/t 1,070 koz
Inferred In-Situ (OP) 7,376 kt Gold 0.78 g/t 184 koz
Inferred In-Situ (UG) 177,532 kt Gold 2.38 g/t 13,582 koz
Inferred Total 184,908 kt Gold 2.32 g/t 13,766 koz

Commodity Production Costs:

CommodityUnits2021202020192018201720162015
Credits (by-product) Gold USD -27 / oz -20 / oz -20 / oz -18 / oz -20 / oz -17 / oz
Cash costs Gold USD 736 / oz 628 / oz 573 / oz 595 / oz 628 / oz 600 / oz
Total cash costs Gold USD 750 / oz 626 / oz 579 / oz 594 / oz 626 / oz 613 / oz
Total cash costs Gold USD 616 / oz ^† 723 / oz† 606 / oz† 559 / oz† 576 / oz† 606 / oz† 596 / oz†
^ Guidance / Forecast.
† Net of By-Product.

Operating Costs:

Units2020201920182017201620152014
Total operating costs ($/t milled) CAD 27262524252322

Financials:

Units202120202019201820172016
Capital expenditures (planned) M USD 296.3  
Capital expenditures M USD 134.2  165.7  164.6  175.95   121.1  


Heavy Mobile Equipment as of May 5, 2017:
Source: Source p.27
HME TypeModelSizeQuantity
Drill Cubex 5
Drill Atlas Copco PV235 9
Excavator Hitachi EX5600 1
Loader P&H L-1850 3
Loader Caterpillar 994 1
Shovel Caterpillar RH340 3
Shovel Caterpillar 6050 26 cu. m 1
Truck (haul) Caterpillar 793F 217 t 28

Mine Management:

Job TitleNameProfileRef. Date
Deputy General Manager Christian Roy LinkedIn Mar 19, 2021
Director Technical Services Patrick Fiset LinkedIn Mar 19, 2021
Mill Manager Jean Chateauneuf LinkedIn Mar 19, 2021
Mine Maintenance Superintendent Serge Arseneault LinkedIn Mar 19, 2021
Mine Operations Manager Patrick Mercier LinkedIn Mar 19, 2021

Staff:

EmployeesYear
1,000 2020
792 2019
726 2018
699 2017
694 2016
687 2014

Corporate Filings & Presentations:

DocumentYear
Press Release 2021
Quarterly Report 2021
Financial Review 2020
Management Discussion & Analysis 2020
Annual Information Form 2019
Annual Information Form 2019
Annual Report 2019
Annual Report 2019
Other 2019
Year-end Mineral Reserves 2019
Annual Information Form 2018
Annual Report 2018
Financial Review 2018
Other 2018
Press Release 2018
Quarterly Report 2018
Annual Information Form 2017
Corporate Presentation 2017
Financial Review 2017
Annual Report 2016
Form 40-F 2016
Year-end Mineral Reserves 2016
Year-end Mineral Reserves 2016
Annual Report 2015
Form 40-F 2015
Annual Report 2014
Form 40-F 2014

News:

NewsDate
Agnico Eagle Announces Virtual Meeting for the 2021 Annual Meeting of Shareholders; Appointment of Leona Aglukkaq to the Board of Directors... March 25, 2021
Construction of Canadian Malartic Underground Approved, Increasing Life of Mine Gold Production by ~6.9 Million Ounces February 16, 2021
Yamana Gold Reports Strong Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2020 Results; Impressive Technical Study Results Delivered for the Odyssey Underground Project February 11, 2021
Yamana Gold Announces Preliminary 2020 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Production, Financial, and Corporate Results January 25, 2021
Yamana Gold Provides an Update on Exploration Activities at Canadian Malartic; Announces Positive Drill Results From East Gouldie October 28, 2020
Canadian Malartic Mine Initiates Construction of Underground Portal and Ramp July 30, 2020
Yamana Gold Announces Government-Authorized Resumption of Operations at Canadian Malartic April 14, 2020
Yamana Gold update on Canadian Malartic Mine March 24, 2020
Abitibi Royalties Inc.: Canadian Malartic Mine Royalties 2019 Reserve & Resource Estimates March 23, 2020
Reserve & Resource Update Plus Royalty Production Schedule 2019–2021 Canadian Malartic Mine Royalties March 14, 2019
Abitibi Royalties: Update on Canadian Malartic Mine & Early Stage Exploration Royalties February 19, 2019

Aerial view:

Terms of Use Privacy Policy © 2020 MDO Data Online Inc.