Eastmaque concentrate shipments delayed

Problems with completion of a filter press in the mill have delayed concentrate shipments from Eastmaque Gold Mines’ Kirkland Lake tailings project in Ontario.

The company started processing gold mine tailings through its mill early in December and had hoped the first shipments of concentrates to Noranda’s Horne smelter in Quebec would begin in the same month (N.M., Dec 28/87).

“Work on the filter press is nearing completion and shipments are expected to start mid-January,” President Lutz Klingmann reports. “We have stockpiled a lot of concentrate,” he adds.

While the ice on Kirkland Lake is affecting the 24-hour-a-day operation, this is being overcome and the dredge has reached a point where tailings appear above the surface of the lake. The company plans to operate through the winter.


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