Post by
shneps on Apr 11, 2017 10:34am
DeBeers Victor
Throwing out a conversation for the board.
If indeed DeBeers is looking to shutdown the Victor Mine (I personnally feel it may be just posturing) but if indeed it is the case. The closing obligations would include the dismantling of the mine infrastructure and returning the site to nature and continuing monitoring. What are you going to do with a 8,000t/day diamond processing plant and its assosiated components?
To demolish and scrap would entail dismantling, transporting 400km on a winter ice road, offloading and then reloading onto trains in Moosonee, train to most likely Sault Ste. Marie (approx. 700km), offload to trucks, and recycle.
Why not transport the components via winter road (approx. 120km) to a preordained location on the Hudson Bay coast and once the summer shipping is available, ocean barge the components directly to Iqaluit and offload in its new deep water port and straight on to Chidliak via new the allseason road.
I have too assume this has been a conversation DeBeers is having in house. Tom Peregoodoff has stated on many occassions that Peregrine and DeBeers parted on amicable terms and are in regular conversation to this date.
Just reviewing different scenarios.
Cheers
Comment by
madmann on Apr 11, 2017 11:54am
Scneps, I already addressesd that. I spoke to Tom at PDAC and suggested the same thing. He said it would be cheaper to buy new! M