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Blackwater

Artemis Gold

The Blackwater Gold Project is located in British Columbia, Canada, 446 km northeast of Vancouver. Blackwater is an epithermal gold-silver deposit hosted in felsic volcanic rocks with pervasive stockwork veins and disseminated sulphide mineralization, situated in the Nechako Plateau, part of the Intermontane Belt. The area was first prospected in 1973 and…

Reko Diq

Barrick

Reko Diq is a copper-gold deposit located in Balochistan, Pakistan, 35 km south of the Afghan border and 55 km east of the Iranian border. Reko Diq is situated in the Chagai Belt, part of the Tethyan Belt, which extends from Central Europe and Turkey, through Iran, to western Pakistan. The deposit was discovered by BHP in the early 1990s and drilling commenced in 1996. BHP…

Eskay Creek

Skeena

Eskay Creek is located in British Columbia, Canada, 83 km northwest of Stewart. Eskay Creek is a high-grade, epithermal VMS deposit, situated on the western edge of the Stikine Terrane. The area was first prospected in the 1930s, followed by drilling and underground exploration, eventually coming under the control of Homestake Mining, which commenced commercial…

Detour Lake

Agnico Eagle

The Detour Lake Mine is a gold mine situated 300 km northeast of Timmins, Ontario, Canada. The deposit is situated on Abitibi Greenstone along the Destor-Porcupine Fault Zone extending from Timmins, Ontario to Destor, Quebec, home of some of the world’s richest gold deposits. The mine produced 1.7 Moz during its first inception (1987 to 1999) as an open pit/ underground operation…

Kibali (Barrick)

Barrick

Kibali is a gold mine located in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1,800 km northeast of the capital city of Kinshasa. The deposits are located in the Kibali Greenstone Belt. Most mineralizations in Kibali occur along the KZ Trend. The KCD deposit is the principal mineralization consisting of five semi-vertically stacked lodes plunging 25° from surface to 2,000 m northeast…

Loulo-Gounkoto

Barrick

Loulo-Gounkoto is located in Mali, 350 km west of the capital city of Bamako, adjacent to the Falémé River which demarcates the border with Senegal. The deposits are located in the Kedougou-Kenieba erosional inlier. Mineralization is typically found in narrow and steeply dipping veins hosted in a meta-sedimentary volcanic sequence. Loulo was discovered in…

Valentine

Calibre Mining

The Valentine Gold Project is located in Newfoundland, Canada, 63 km from the town of Millertown. Gold deposits at the property are hosted by the Valentine Lake Intrusive Complex, situated in the Exploits Subzone of the Dunnage Tectonostratigraphic Zone of the Newfoundland Appalachian System. The area was first explored for base metals in the 1960s by ASARCO and…

Cobre Panama

First Quantum Minerals

The Cobre Panama Project is a copper-gold-molybdenum-silver porphyry deposit situated in Colon Province, Republic of Panama, 120 km west of Panama City. The deposit is situated in the southern portion of a large granodiorite batholith. Copper-bearing sulphide is mostly chalcopyrite with minor bornite…

Ok Tedi

Ok Tedi Mining

Ok Tedi is located on Mount Fubilan in western Papua New Guinea (PNG), 20 km from the Indonesian border. Ok Tedi is a porphyry-skarn copper-gold deposit situated in the Papuan Fold Belt. The site was discovered in 1968 by Kennecott geologists that noticed mineralized float during a helicopter reconnaissance mission and traced its source to Mount Fubilan. Exploration followed at a…