Project OverviewHere is the Project Overview as submitted to the Federal Review Panel Documentation.
2.2: PROJECT COMPONENTS
2.2.1: PROJECT OVERVIEW
As proposed, the Project would involve an open-pit mine that would produce gold and
copper over a 20 year operating life with a production capacity of approximately 70,000
tonnes per day. The Project would include five main elements: mine site, access road,
transmission line, rail load-out facility and fish and fish habitat compensation works (Figure
2). The mine site would include an open pit, a camp, an onsite mill, support infrastructure,
waste rock stockpiles, a tailings storage facility, and typical large-scale open pit mining
equipment, including a primary crusher and overland conveyor. Access to the mine site
would be via a 2.8 km access road which would be extended from the existing 4500 road.
Electricity would be provided via a 125 km long, 230 KV power transmission line, connected
to a new switching station at the existing British Columbia Hydro north-south transmission
corridor in the vicinity of Dog Creek, east of the Fraser River. The ore would be processed in
the mill and the resulting concentrate would be trucked to the existing rail loading facility at
Macalister. A map showing the general arrangements of Project components is included in
Figure 3 and Figure 4 illustrates the routing of the proposed transmission line corridor.
Teztan Biny (Fish Lake) would be drawn down to allow for the creation of a storage area for
non-potentially acid generating waste rock, low grade ore and overburden. The tailings
storage facility would encompass the area currently occupied by Y’anah Biny (Little Fish
Lake), portions of Teztan Yeqox (Fish Creek) and the surrounding wetlands and meadows,
and would be used for the storage of tailings and potentially acid generating waste rock. At
the south end of the storage tailings facility, a proposed new lake, referred to as Prosperity
Lake3 would be created as a component of the plan to compensate for fish and fish habitat
lost in Teztan Biny, Y’anah Biny and Teztan Yeqox.
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