Spider Man 2 Under Construction Gold
Evagret Homestead
At 1:14 mark you can clearly see the building is not finished. There are outside walls missing and the building is still under construction.
Here's a photo of New York building under construction In the left the buildings have external elevator and cranes. On the right building, at the top, you can see that the crane is still there after all external wall are put in place. It's there to move heavy machines (like AC) to the top at the end (so when all air ducts are in place, power is moved to the top of the building and so on).
The original schedule had the first ore delivery to the heap leach pad in August 2019. The Company is confident the team can beat this schedule by one month, with first ore reporting to the heap leach pad in July 2019. This results in a first gold pour target of September 2019. With the acceleration of the construction schedule, over 3 million metric tonnes of ore are expected to be delivered to the heap leach pad by year end 2019.
Construction capital has increased by approximately 10% from $442M to $487M. The majority of this increase was due to additional earthworks as the result of unexpected geotechnical conditions. Other cost increases were largely related to schedule preservation and acceleration.
All bulk earthworks, major equipment purchases and major contracts are now complete or awarded. Approximately $364M has been incurred while $408M has been committed and C$8M remains in contingency. No further cost increases are anticipated.
After consideration of $20M overfunding which was previously completed, a further $25M is required to complete construction. The Company is working with its funding partners to ensure the mine is fully financed through construction and to positive cash flow.
Engineering is complete with only field modifications and as-built drawings remaining. Bulk earthworks are complete with only minor works remaining. Concrete is complete and the contractor has demobilized from site. Procurement is approximately 98% complete with 85% of loads delivered to site. Overall structural steel is 75% complete and mechanical & electrical are 35% complete.
Site infrastructure is substantively complete. The 45km, 69kV powerline from the Yukon electrical grid is in place and ready to be energized. On site, 13.8 kV power distribution will be complete by the end of February. The two associated sub-stations are well advanced and are all on schedule to deliver power in Q2 2019. One of 3 power plants constituting the 5MW of on-site backup power is on site and the other units are in transit. The power plant will be assembled and commissioned mid-March in time to support commissioning activities.
The primary crusher structural steel is 90% complete with related mechanical at 54% complete. The crusher mainframe, bowl, spider and mantle are in place. The transformer and e-house are on site and electrical installation has commenced.
The secondary & tertiary crushing facility internal steel is 96% complete and external steel is 54% complete. The mechanical team have installed the secondary and tertiary crusher frames and are 17% complete overall.
The overland conveyor, which transfers the crushed ore 1.4km across the valley to the heap leach facility, is well advanced with 60% of the galleries now in place with ancillary conveyors 70% complete.
The four-layer liner system and solution piping for the sump of the heap leach pad is complete. Earthworks on the event pond are complete and liner will be installed this spring. The gold recovery plant is fully enclosed with internal steel at 92%, mechanical at 27%, piping at 19% and electrical cabling at 69% complete. The gold recovery plant is approximately 1 month ahead of schedule and will be advanced in the commissioning plan.
Commissioning activities are well underway. Dedicated commissioning managers have begun active rotations at site to integrate with the construction and operations team. Lockout tag-out site specific training with contractors has begun. A level 4 commissioning schedule has been prepared and integrated with the master construction and operations schedule. There are 22 primary systems and 79 subsystems that have been identified in the commissioning plan which will facilitate early commissioning and a smooth commissioning schedule. Commissioning spares and tooling have been ordered and are currently arriving on site. The process control system has arrived at site and on-site programing will begin by the end of February. The on-site power plant will be ready for internment power supply by mid-March and full-time power supply by mid-April.
All major contract and supply agreements are in place or in final stages of completion. A significant number of the vendors awarded contract or supply agreements have partnership arrangements with the FNNND Development Corp.
Victoria Gold's 100%-owned Dublin Gulch gold property is situated in the central Yukon Territory, Canada, approximately 375 kilometers north of the capital city of Whitehorse, and approximately 85 kilometers from the town of Mayo. The Property is accessible by road year-round, and is located within Yukon Energy's electrical grid.
The Property covers an area of approximately 555 square kilometers, and is the site of the Company's Eagle Gold Deposit. The Eagle Gold Mine is under construction and is expected to be Yukon's next operating gold mine. The Eagle and Olive deposits, include Proven and Probable Reserves of 2.7 million ounces of gold from 123 million tonnes of ore with a grade of 0.67 grams of gold per tonne, as outlined in a National Instrument 43-101 feasibility study entitled Report for the Eagle Gold Project and dated October 26, 2016. The NI 43-101 Mineral Resource for the Eagle and Olive deposits has been estimated, as at December 5, 2018, to host 208 million tonnes averaging 0.66 grams of gold per tonne, containing 4.4 million ounces of gold in the "Measured and Indicated" category, inclusive of Proven and Probable Reserves, and a further 20 million tonnes averaging 0.64 grams of gold per tonne, containing 0.4 million ounces of gold in the "Inferred" category.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange, nor its Regulation Services Provider accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. This press release includes certain statements that may be deemed "forward-looking statements". All statements in this discussion, other than statements of historical facts, that address future exploration drilling, exploration activities, anticipated completion of mine construction, anticipated metal production, internal rate of return, estimated ore grades, commencement of production estimates and projected exploration and capital expenditures (including costs and other estimates upon which such projections are based) and events or developments that the Company expects, are forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes the expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those in forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements include metal prices, exploration successes, continued availability of capital and financing (including the flow-through financing outlined aboved), unfavourable weather conditions, delays in the delivery of materials to the mine site, and general economic, market or business conditions. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.
Sometimes life takes you places that you never would have expected, and then somehow brings you back to them! This is the case with me and Papua New Guinea (PNG). PNG is located in the south-west Pacific Ocean, one of the island countries of Melanesia. It is a rugged, wild and beautiful country, which is equally as dangerous. So how did I end up spending months here and on more than one occasion? Well, the short answer is that the country is well-endowed in mineral deposits, and hosts some pretty amazing geology as well as unexplored terrain.
Papua New Guinea is a young and dynamic country, with a very complex geological-tectonic history. But in short summary, its history has involved volcanic arc initiation, closure and accretion over the last 30 million years. This resulted in several belts of porphyry deposits in continental and oceanic settings.
The various subducting tectonic plates and volcanic arcs throughout time have lead to the right conditions (e.g., fertile magmatism, regional compression, significant uplift, etc.) that resulted in multiple porphyry copper and epithermal gold deposits, such as Wafi-Golpu and Lihir (e.g., Solomon, 1990).
Typically a mineral exploration program starts with the most unknown, with an area of interest located somewhere within a country, and not a lot of information besides that (there are many ways that an area of interest can be identified, and this typically involves a thorough assessment of prospectivity ahead of time using whatever previous data sets are available).
During our program we lived in one of the villages and established a great working relationship with the local community, which helped us in our day-to-day work. People on the island live basically off the land, and have no electricity or even mobile coverage. It was impressive to see how they construct homes, using bush material like palm and sego trees.
We still lived in the local village, but had some help beforehand to construct a bit more of a stable camp as we now had more personnel including drillers, locals workers and site security (it is PNG after all and even though the island seems lovely, there is signification threat of danger around, including pirates of the Coral Sea).
A typical day consists up walking in the very humid jungle up to the drill rig once or twice a day to check the drill, and then logging the newly acquired drill core, usually at camp on the core racks.
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