forest fireof interest
[reference https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/breakingnews/125606963.html]
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Goldcorp's MUSSELWHITE MINE ....located about 120 km north of PC Gold's Pickle Lake project....
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MUSSELWHITE, Ont. - Goldcorp Inc. (TSX:G) has removed most of its 380 employees from the Musselwhite mine in northwestern Ontario due to forest fires in the area.
A fire that late Thursday was about 30 kilometres away from the First Nations community located some 480 kilometres north of Thunder Bay was advancing with prevailing winds toward the mine site.
"There are fires in the area that we've been cautiously watching," said Goldcorp spokesman Jeff Wilhoit.
"The wind shifted and two small fires joined up and started to advance toward the mine site."
The company has ceased mining operations and electricity is being provided by generator power as the fire destroyed a section of a transmission line providing power to the site.
"Every precaution is being taken, our people are certainly safe," Wilhoit said.
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A crew of 50 employees, including the mine's general manager will remain at the site to maintain and monitor operations and co-ordinate with firefighters. An evacuation route has been set up for those workers.
"Even in the worst case scenario, we're fortunate that the mine site is adjacent to a lake," he said.
The company said it would provide updates as soon as the situation changes.
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Musselwhite is an underground gold mine and processing plant that produces approximately a quarter-million ounces of gold annually. It began commercial production in 1997 and is one of its top-producing mines.
The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources says that 81 fires are actively burning in the province's northwest.
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a side-note:
some other companies located near the PC Gold property....
[a] Manicouagan Minerals has options on some Trillium North Mining properties..[Pickle Lake East, Kasagiminis, Dorothy-Dobie Lake] plus some staked claims ot its owm.
[b] the Jiminex Misehkow River property ....about 50 km souteast of Pickle Lake.
[c] Rainy Mountain Royalty recently acquired 167 claim units in the Drum Lake area in the Patricia Mining District. [news release May 5, 2011]