The Merritt Mill and Tailings site consists of approximately 980 acres of fee simple land. The mill is a 200 tonne per day crushing, grinding and flotation mill, permitted to conduct custom milling of ore, and is located 10 kilometers northwest of Merritt, BC. The mill was constructed in the fall of 2012 together with the fully lined tailings facility.
The Mill has extensively been upgraded and modified including installation of a gravity jig separation system that allows the Mill to separate free gold from mill feed, as well as a tabling system that allows the Mill to further separate fine gold from gold concentrate after floatation.
The Mill is capable of producing free gold concentrate, gold floatation concentrate, and silver concentrate. The large mill building allows scalability for additional flotation tanks and gold screening units.
Since May of 2010 the investment consisted of $8.0 MM for cost of land zoned I-3 industrial, $21.6 MM for the mill and infrastructure costs, and $1.8 MM for the construction of a fully lined tailings facility.
The property is situated in the heart of the Thomspon-Okanagan mining district, augmented by a dry arid climate ideal for storing ore, and has highway access directly to the mill site.
The combination of location, wholly-owned land, in-place permitting for custom milling and superior infrastructure could allow for significant expansion and, or, additional processing facilities to operate on the property.
The mill processed 5,700 tonnes of stock pile material received from Gavin Mines Inc. per a Milling and Profit Share Agreement during 2016. The Company completed shipping of concentrate in January 2017 per an offtake agreement with MRI Trading Ag. The Company on April 6, 2017 entered into a long-term mining and milling profit share agreement with Gavin Mines Inc. to receive up to 40,000 tonnes of mill feed per year mined from Gavin Mine’s Dome Mountain located near Smithers, British Columbia.