FROM SUPPLY PACKER TO PRESIDENT
Colin Benner has been immersed in mining all his life. In fact, he was recruited by his prospector father at such an early age that skin tissue assays might yield fairly strong mineralization. Well –…
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BIG FARO MILL FINE-TUNED FOR GRUM ORE
The Faro concentrator was initially a 5,000-tonne-per-day operation in the early 1970s. It has since been expanded several times so that today it can process 14,000 tonnes daily, which, says Ken Ball,…
CURRAGH TAPS ITS STABLE OF DEPOSITS
Curragh Resources and its Faro, Yukon, complex are in the midst of switching workhorses. Up until the past few years, the Faro deposit — in terms of draft horses, truly a Clydesdale — had fed the 4-…
OPEN PIT UNDERGROUND
In attempting to extract every last tonne of economic ore out of the ground, Curragh has driven into the wall of the Faro open pit. This underground mine has been going since 1990. The portal is situa…
NATIVE DEVELOPMENT
When Sa Dena Hes was launched with official fanfare last fall, a special ceremony, rare and probably unique in the annals of Canadian mining, caught the spotlight. The Kaska Dena nation bestowed on Cu…
WESTRAY’S LOW-SULHUR COAL
Curragh Resources’ Westray coal mine was officially opened Sept. 11, 1991. With hard-to-beat logistics and equipped as a brand new operation, Westray should be Nova Scotia’s most productive coal mine….
RE-GREENING THE ANVIL RANGE
Curragh Resources’ environmental people have shepherded approvals through the regulatory process several times now — for the Vangorda and Grum deposits two years ago, for Westray in Nova Scotia and f…
FIVE OREBODIES AND COUNTING
The Anvil lead/zinc/silver district is 200 km northeast of Whitehorse, Yukon. Five known stratiform sedimentary exhalative deposits occur in a well-defined trend within a narrow Cambrian stratigraphic…
CURRAGH HITS YUKON PAYDIRT A SECOND TIME; Now well into
Curragh Resources’ second Yukon operation, Sa Dena Hes, is approximately 45 km north of Watson Lake or about an hour by air south from Faro. (Sa Dena Hes is a joint venture between Curragh, 80%, and H…
CURRAGH EMERGES FROM RECESSIONARY STORM
Curragh Resources had planned on, and insulated itself against, a recession that would last no longer than nine months. Long-term debt was converted so that principal payments would only begin in 1996…
CUPCAKE HAULAGE: The 12-tonne-capacity concentrate “cupcakes”
When Curragh Resources first considered taking over the Faro operation, concentrate transportation to the Alaskan seaport at Skagway was a key, make-or-break factor. The previous mine owners had relie…
Guyana’s modest gold output growing
Increased gold purchases by the state-run gold authority here have led to official predictions of a record-breaking production year in this key sector, Guyana’s fifth ranked foreign exchange earner. F…