Summary

Mine Type	Open Pit
Status	Closing / Closed
Commodities	Molybdenum
Mining Method	Truck & Shovel / Loader
Production Start	...
Snapshot	The Endako Mine has been on care and maintenance effective July 1, 2015. As of December 31, 2024, there are approximately 10 employees at Endako Mine for care and maintenance activities. At the Endako Mine, Centerra Gold continues to engage with the British Columbia government and its Indigenous partners on environmental programs, reclamation and closure planning. Reclamation work is underway related to the closure of the Denak West dewatering project at the Endako mine.

Deposit type

• Porphyry
• Vein / narrow vein

Summary:

The Endako deposit is a porphyry Molybdenum deposit. The geometry and geologic occurrence are such that it is sometimes used as an example to define a style of mineralization known as a Endako Style mineralization.

Endako is lower in silica content than the Climax style deposits and is hosted by a monzonite or monzogranite host rather than the more rhyolitic host rocks of the Climax style deposits.

Endako is a magmatic – hydrothermal deposit associated with sub-duction around island arc formation or continental collision. The deposit is predominately structurally controlled, mainly as stockworks and en-echelon veinlets that establish the overall orientation of the deposit.

The primary ore is molybdenite (MoS2) with minor associated chalcopyrite, scheelite, and galena. Gangue minerals are quartz, pyrite, K-feldspar, biotite, sericite, clays, calcite, and anhydrite.

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 deposit has been divided into four named areas: Northwest, Denak West, Denak East, Endako.

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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Personnel

Job Title	Name	Profile	Ref. Date
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