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John Thompson, a spokesperson for the Yukon government, also told CBC News in an email earlier Monday afternoon that Victoria Gold had reported a "heap leach failure" at the mine. He said investigations were underway.
The heap leach facility at the mine site uses a cyanide solution to percolate through ore, stacked in 10-metre layers, to dissolve the gold. The company's website say approximately a million tonnes of ore is processed each month by that method.
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