Longshot Diamond Drilling, which specializes in mill cleanups, did the work at the Madsen mill. The company brought a small portable gravity circuit to the site and used it to separate coarse gold from other milled material collected during the cleanup.
Approximately 415 oz. of gold were recovered during the first phase of the mill cleanup in 2023. The new doré bar was poured from the course gold collected using the refinery on site. The remainder of the material collected, which includes the fine gold, will be sent to a third party for recovery.
“Seeing the refinery in action was another check mark on our list of operational readiness requirements,” said Williams.
“Starting or restarting a mine requires reliable operations from multiple facilities and systems. From my experience…
