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Endako Mine

Location: 153 km W from Prince George, British Columbia, Canada

Address:

1 University Avenue, Suite 1500
Toronto
Ontario, Canada
M5J 2P1

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Overview

Mine TypeOpen Pit
StatusCare and Maintenance
Commodities
  • Molybdenum
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
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SnapshotThe Endako Mine has been on care and maintenance effective July 1, 2015. As of December 31, 2023, there are approximately 9 employees at Endako Mine for care and maintenance activities.

Expected to remain in care and maintenance while Centerra Gold Inc. focuses on the Thompson Creek restart.

Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Moon River Moly Ltd. 25 % Indirect
Centerra Gold Inc. 75 % Indirect
Moon River signed a share purchase agreement dated February 28, 2024 with Sojitz Corporation to indirectly acquire through the acquisition of Sojitz Moly Resources Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sojitz, a 25% participating interest in the Endako mine.

Moon River BC is the holder of a 25% participating interest in the Endako Mine and Thompson Creek Mining Ltd. (now Thompson Creek Metals Company Inc.), a subsidiary of Centerra Gold Inc., holds a 75% participating interest in, and is the manager of, the Endako Mine.

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Deposit type

  • Porphyry
  • Vein / narrow vein

Summary:

Endako is a porphyry molybdenum deposit mined in the Endako, East Denak and West Denak pits. In the longterm mine plan these will merge into a large ‘Super-Pit’.

The Endako deposit consists of an elongated stockwork of quartz-molybdenite veins within the Endako quartz monzonite phase of the Francois Lake Batholith. The orebody is a series of major en-echelon moly-sulfide veins that strike from north through east across the deposit and dip west to south.

The combined strike length of ore grade mineralization is about 3 miles (4.8 km) with a width of roughly 0.5 mile (0.75 km). Mining is in progress or has occurred in the Endako, and both Denak areas. The Northwest zone is yet to be produced. Ore grade moly nearly outcrops in the Northwest zone and is exposed in all of the other pit areas.

Molybdenite is the primary metallic mineral on the Endako Mine property. Minor pyrite, magnetite and chalcopyrite and traces of sphalerite, bornite, specularite and scheelite are also present. Single occurrences of beryl and bismuthinite have been reported. Molybdenite occurs in two types of veins. Large veins (up to 1.2 meters wide) contain laminae and fine disseminations of molybdenite.
The second vein type occurs as stockworks adjacent to the major veins in the form of fine fracture-fillings and veinlets of quartz-molybdenite. Pyrite is most abundant along the southern margin of the zone of molybdenum mineralization.

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Comminution

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Production

Production Costs

Commodity production costs have not been reported.

Financials

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Heavy Mobile Equipment

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Personnel

Mine Management

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