Macassa shines as richest gold mine in Canada in Q3 2021🇨🇦 This is intriguing!
"... (Kitco News) - Kirkland Lake Gold’s Macassa mine was the highest grade gold operation in Canada in Q3 2021, followed by Wesdome Gold’s Eagle River mine and Alamos Gold’s Island Gold mine.
The grade or concentration of a mineral or metal in ore directly affects costs associated with mining as well as its subsequent beneficiation and extraction of precious components.
Kitco ranked currently active gold operations in Canada based on gold grade in a tonne of processed ore reported for Q3 2021. Kitco looked at operations that are separate reporting units and which have gold grade figures disclosed by the owners/operators.
Kirkland Lake Gold’s Macassa mine, located in the Municipality of Kirkland Lake, within Teck Township, District of Timiskaming, in the northeast of the province of Ontario, is the richest gold mine in Canada and one of the richest gold operations worldwide. The company reported an average processed grade of 19.1 g/t gold for Macassa in Q3 2021, an increase of 24% over Q3 2020 when operations were impacted by excessive heat in the mine and ongoing protocols related to the company’s COVID-19 response...."
https://www.kitco.com/news/2022-01-21/Macassa-shines-as-richest-gold-mine-in-Canada-in-Q3-2021-report.html