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Canada
Argyle Mine (Point Rousse Operation)

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 Location:
6 km NE from Baie Verte, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

  Address:
232 Highway 410 PO Box 238
Baie Verte
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
A0K 1B0
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Overview

StatusClosing / Closed
Mine TypeStockpile
Commodities
  • Gold
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
Production Start...
The Point Rousse Operation contains three deposits Pine Cove, Stog’er Tight, Argyle and the fully permitted Pine Cove Mill.

As announced on October 25, 2022, the Signal has begun winding down its current operations at Point Rousse and has now completed mining at the Argyle Mine. As on March 2, 2023, the Signal continues to wind down its operations at Point Rousse in a safe and profitable manner and has now completed all crushing and grinding activity and is transitioning to care and maintenance.

The site has already commenced certain progressive rehabilitation activities, including the backfilling of the settlement pond at Argyle and the reclamation of tailings storage #1.


Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Maritime Resources Corp. 100 % Indirect
On August 21, 2023, Maritime Resources Corp. announced the closing of its previously announced acquisition of all of the outstanding shares of Point Rousse Mining Inc. from Signal Gold Inc.

Maritime acquired 100% of the common shares of Point Rousse Mining Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Signal Gold, which holds all related mineral licenses, fixed assets and equipment, liabilities, rights and obligations related to Point Rousse, including the fully permitted Pine Cove mill and in-pit tailings facility.

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Deposit Type

  • Orogenic
  • Vein / narrow vein


Summary:

The Point Rousse Complex is host to orogenic-style gold mineralization. Mineralization comprises both vein-hosted and altered-wall rock or replacement styles of mineralization and both exhibit features common to orogenic gold deposits. The mineralization is typically structurally controlled and developed within subsidiary deformation zones, such as the Scrape Trust Fault, to major regional structures, like the Baie Verte – Brompton Line fault. gold mineralization is intimately associated with disseminated and massive pyrite within the host rock indicating that iron rich rocks are an important precursor to mineralization. Alteration within mafic volcanic and gabbroic rocks can be is characterized by albitization and carbonitization. Iron and titanium rich lithologies associated with the Scrape Thrust are typical host rocks. The Point Rousse gold mineralization exhibits relatively narrow, but distinctive alteration haloes dominated by Fe-carbonate, albite, sericite, chlorite and leucoxene. The ore mineralogy is relatively simple and is generally comprised of non-refractory gold either as free gold or as coatings on, or along fractures/grain boundariesin pyrite. Silver and base metals can be present in minor amounts and the deposits typically exhibit only trace arsenic. The Argyle Deposit is underlain by mafic volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Scrape Point and Bobby Cove Formations of the Snooks Arm Group. The main lithological units consist of clinopyroxene-phyric lapill ........


Mining Methods

  • Truck & Shovel / Loader


Summary:

On October 25, 2022, Signal Gold announced that it was winding down its current operations at the end mining at Argyle. The Argyle Mineral Resource are depleted in Q4 of 2022. The Argyle Mine is an open pit mine consisting of traditional drill and blast operations followed by transport of ore by haul trucks to the crusher run of mine pad and transport of waste to the waste rock piles. On average, between 10,000 and 12,000 tpd of waste and ore is mined. The primary equipment fleet includes seven John Deere 410E trucks (38 tonnes), two shovels and two bulldozers. Approximately 28 people are employed directly and indirectly in the trucking of ore. Production holes are typically drilled on a 3 by 3 m pattern with a bench height of 6 m. Explosives used include Titan XL 1000 bulk emulsion for production blasting and Unimax Dynamite for pre-shear blasting. Nonel EZ DET detonators and Trojan Brand Cast boosters are used. There are generally four blasts per week. Ore is hauled via a single 15 m wide ramp (10% grade) to the ore storage area adjacent to the mill. Oversize material is broken using an excavator-mounted buster. The broken ore is fed into the primary crusher using a dedicated loader. There are several waste rock dumps adjacent to the open pit. The main access ramps are designed at a 10% gradient to accommodate rear wheel drive haulage trucks. The 18 m wide ramps are designed to facilitate two-way truck traffic at all points, assuming a John Deere 410E production h ........


Crushing and Grinding
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Ore is fed to the crushing plant via front end loader, where it first enters a jaw crusher. After crushing, a conveyor takes the ore to a screen deck, where the fine material is separated. Oversize ore is recirculated through a cone crusher until it reaches the desired top size of 3/8 inches.

Ore from the crushed stockpile is then fed to the primary ball mill via conveyor belt, and typically averages 1.0 to 2.0 g/t gold. The ball mill is charged with 2 inch and 3 inch balls, and grinds material to a K80 of 150 micron. Material from the ball mill is pumped through a cyclone, where liberated material is fed into the flotation circuit via an overflow. Any coarse material is returned to the ball mill.


Processing

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Combined production numbers are reported under Point Rousse Operation

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Reserves at December 15, 2021:
Cut-off Grade 0.56 g/t Au

CategoryTonnage CommodityGradeContained Metal
Probable 529,100 t Gold 2.06 g/t 33,850 oz
Indicated 436,800 t Gold 2.53 g/t 35,530 oz
Inferred 500 t Gold 2.77 g/t 50 oz

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Heavy Mobile Equipment as of September 1, 2021:
HME TypeModelSizeQuantityLeased or
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Dozer (crawler) ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Leased
Dozer (crawler) ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Leased
Drill ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Leased
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Drill ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Leased
Excavator ....................... Subscription required 1.56 cu. yd ....................... Subscription required Leased
Excavator ....................... Subscription required 4.18 cu. yd ....................... Subscription required Leased
Excavator ....................... Subscription required 4.1 cu. yd ....................... Subscription required Leased
Excavator ....................... Subscription required 3.1 cu. yd ....................... Subscription required Leased
Excavator ....................... Subscription required 1.9 cu. yd ....................... Subscription required Leased
Rockbreaker ....................... Subscription required Leased
Truck 27 t ....................... Subscription required Leased
Truck (dump) ....................... Subscription required 38 t ....................... Subscription required Leased
Truck (dump) ....................... Subscription required 38 t ....................... Subscription required Leased
Truck (dump) ....................... Subscription required 38 t ....................... Subscription required Leased
Truck (dump) ....................... Subscription required 29 cu. yd ....................... Subscription required Leased
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Mine Management:

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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

DocumentYear
Press Release 2023
Annual Information Form 2022
Management Discussion & Analysis 2022
Technical Report 2022
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Environmental Assessment 2018
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