A mine manager for the disaster-stricken Eagle mine in Canada’s Yukon Territory on Wednesday described for the legislative assembly the huge amount of work remaining in the cleanup effort.
After the heap-leach pad slide at the Eagle mine last June, a pond began leaking and a containment berm was put up, but no engineer of record was involved, Michelle Grant, PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC’s) senior vice-president told the Yukon Legislative Assembly. The mine’s Irosa Pond 2 remains leaky and can’t be repaired until it’s emptied of treated water, Grant told MLAs.
“We continue to assess opportunities to monetize gold and other precious metals held within the waste and or water materials at the Eagle Gold mine,” Grant told legislators under oath, noting the…
