Hope Brook Gold mine produced 775,000 ounces of gold over 10 years in the 1990s.
Big Ridge Mining is now earning 51% of the rejuvenated project which has over 1 million ounces in open pit deposit.
Big Ridge is a quality Junior with several other excellent projects outside NL.
That Hope Brook was mentioned in the New MAE corporate presentation piqued my interest.
By my calculations , the Hope Brook mill processed about 7.5 million tons of ore , so it's tailings pond would contain about 100,000 ounces of fines.
There is no mill now at Hope Brook , so except for a costly mill, the open pit mine project is a bit stranded .....except for the gold fines at the bottom of its tailings pond....see link.
So, just speculating, why wouldn't MAE and Big Ridge JV the recovery of that 100,000 ounces of gold fines...capital investment would be modest and helicopter transportation costs of the fines to Pine Cove mill even more modest ...just sayin
https://www.lycopodium.com/case-studies/hope-brook-gold-project/