Golden Sunlight
The Golden Sunlight mine is located in Jefferson County in southwestern Montana, 55 kilometres east of Butte and eight kilometres northeast of Whitehall. The property lies on the eastern flank of a fault-bounded mountain range known as Bull Mountain.
Golden Sunlight is mined by conventional open-pit methods. The ore treatment plant uses conventional carbon-in-pulp technology as well as Sand Tailing Retreatment (STR), designed to recover gold that would otherwise be lost in the process.
Golden Sunlight was not in production in 2010 as it entered an extended redevelopment phase during 2009, but is expected to start production again during the first quarter of 2011. Proven and probable mineral reserves as of December 31, 2010 was 539,000 ounces of gold1.
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