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Gold mine excites industry NELSON BENNETT Glacier Media
B.C.’s next new gold mines could be in production as early 2022 and promise to breathe life back into B.C.’s historic Barkerville region.
CITIZEN PHOTO BY JAMES DOYLE/LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE.
GET YOUR POPPY Bruce Gabriel picks out a poppy in front of the cenotaph in front of city hall to open the
Royal Candian Legion’s 2020 Poppy Campaign. Poppies are available at Costco, HSBC, London Drugs, Michael’s, People’s Jewelers, Princess Auto, Shoppers Drug Mart, Starbucks, the Source, Tim Horton’s, Via Rail, and Walmart.
Business hit hard by COVID
TED CLARKE Citizen staff
A Prince George business that for 25 years has provided display equipment and expertise for setting up trade shows, special events and weddings has been crippled by the pandemic and provincial rules that ban large
public gatherings are putting its longtime survival in jeopardy.
COVID-19 has reduced business to a trickle and the company’s customers who depend on visual displays and people traffic to market their goods and services are worried about what will happen if Central Display & Tents can no longer absorb
the mounting losses and is forced to shut down permanently. Sheldon White, Central Display’s operations manager, said he was forced to lay off seven employees in mid-March when the economy came to a virtual standstill with the COVID-19 outbreak. See MAKE MASKS MANDATORY on page 6
Drill results published last month confirm high grades of gold for the Cariboo Gold project, which is not so much a single gold mine, but a district with multiple potential mines. Mickey Fulp, publisher of the Mercenary Geologist, said the drill results published last week are “same old, same old” – which is to say “fabulous.” “This Cariboo Gold project, it’s got six million ounces of gold and it’s growing. This is the best project in Canada, no doubt in my mind. This is Canada’s next big gold belt, and it certainly is B.C.’s next mine. There is nothing else on the horizon in B.C. as far as gold goes, that will be profitable in the near term.” The developers expects to have its Bonanza Ledge mine near Wells in production in 2021’s first quarter. For Cow Mountain, it expects to have full permits in 2022, “followed by a short construction period given the significant infrastructure already at site.” The infrastructure includes a functioning mill that was operated in 2018 during bulk sampling. The capital cost of the project is estimated at roughly $458 million, about $70 million of which has already been spent. The project will employ about 1,500 workers during construction and 500 to 600 miners once the two mines are in operation.