The Deer Cove gold mine is located approximately 4.2 km north of Ming’s Bight near Baie Verte, north-central Newfoundland. Free gold has also known to occur in the surrounding till. While preliminary studies have been done it is still unknown if the gold in the till can be economically and more importantly environmentally recovered using […]

Narrow-vein steeply dipping deposits are challenging to mine economically because they are poorly oriented for surface mining, and underground mining normally requires development of extensive underground infrastructure before mining the vein. Memorial University is currently collaborating with Anaconda Mining for the development of innovative narrow-vein mining (NVM) technology to mine several of these deposits currently […]