Goldcorp makes headway with plan to give Dome mine a new life – by Cecilia Jamasmie (Mining.com – July 4, 2017)

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Canada’s Goldcorp (TSX:G) (NYSE:GG), the world’s number four bullion miner in terms of output, is moving forward with its Century project, which aims to extend the life its century-old Dome mine in Ontario.

The Dome mine received a death sentence in January 2016, when Goldcorp announced it was closing the operation in the summer due to weak bullion prices that nearly half the company’s share price over the previous year.

A few months later, however, the company literally stroke gold as it found indicated mineral resource of 4.5 million ounces and a gold inferred mineral resource of 0.9 million ounces (for a total of 5.4 million ounces) at what is now being called the Dome Century Project.

Goldcorp kicked off then a conceptual study to expand the open-pit mine, which has just completed, and the project is entering its prefeasibility stage, expected to take about 18 months.

“If we want to be economically viable and continue to contribute to Timmins, we need projects like this to make that happen (…) this is just an example of some of the ideas we have to take PGM (Porcupine Gold Mines) into a second century,” Marc Lauzier, general manager at PGM-Goldcorp told Timmins Today.

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