The Casa Berardi Mine is a gold mine north of
La Sarre
La Sarre is a town in northwestern Quebec, Canada, and is the most populous town and seat of the Abitibi-Ouest Regional County Municipality. It is located at the intersection of Routes 111 and 393, on the La Sarre River, a tributary of Lake A ...
in
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...
, Canada. It is a trackless underground mine with an open-pit component. The mine has provable and probable reserves of 1,542,000 ounces of gold.
In 2016, the East Mine Crown Pillar (EMCP) open-pit began development at a capital cost of $39 million. Development is expected to take 5.5 years.
The EMCP pit is the first surface pit of the project.
The mine produces about 2,300 tonnes of ore per day.
The site has produced approximately 2 million ounces of gold since opening in 1988.
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List of gold mines in Canada
This list of gold mines in Canada is subsidiary to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and future mines in the country. For practical purposes, defunct and future mines are demarcated in italics and bold respectively. Asterisks (* ...
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Canadian Malartic Mine
The Canadian Malartic Mine is a gold mine west of Val-d'Or in Quebec, Canada.
The mineral deposit was discovered in 1923 and Osisko Mining began commercial mining operations in 2011. The mine came under equal ownership of Agnico-Eagle Mines and ...
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LaRonde mine
The LaRonde Mine is a gold mine in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region west of Val-d'Or in Quebec, Canada.
LaRonde began commercial mining operations in 1988. The LaRonde mining complex has 3.8 million ounces of gold in provable and probable res ...
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Mount Polley mine
The Mount Polley mine is a Canadian List of gold mines in Canada, gold and List of copper mines in Canada, copper mine located in British Columbia near the towns of Williams Lake, British Columbia, Williams Lake, and Likely, British Columbia, Like ...
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Meliadine Gold Mine
The Meliadine Gold Mine is a gold mine near Rankin Inlet
Rankin Inlet ( iu, Kangiqliniq; Inuktitut syllabics: ᑲᖏᕿᓂᖅ or ''Kangirliniq'', ᑲᖏᖅᖠᓂᖅ, or ''Kangir&iniq'' meaning ''deep bay/inlet'') is an Inuit hamlet on Kudlul ...
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Gold mines in Canada
Underground mines in Canada
Surface mines in Canada
Mines in Quebec
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