Cambior (TSE) intends to acquire the half interest that Denver-based Golden Star Resources (TSE) holds in the Gross Rosebel gold project in Suriname.
Since signing the option agreement in June 1994, Cambior has spent US$6 million on exploration and development.
The 170-sq.-km property is underlain by a belt of lower Proterozoic clastic metasediments and minor, intercalated metavolcanics intruded by tonalites and granites. The rocks are folded into a broad, east-west-trending and westerly plunging structure, and the gold is associated with hydrothermal quartz veins and stockworks which occur over large areas in both the north and south limbs of the syncline.
Cambior has assumed management of the project and is preparing a final feasibility study, which is expected by the end of 1996.
The company will spend an additional US$2.5 million on the project and attempt to secure financing for at least 65% of the eventual mine development costs.
The Gross Rosebel is one of three gold properties in which Golden Star has granted Cambior an option to earn a half interest. The other two are the Yaou and Dorlin properties in French Guiana.
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