Goldcorp Inc · 40-F/A · For 12/31/06 · EX-99.1
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- Additional Information
- Alumbrera Mine, Argentina
- Amapari Mine, Brazil
- Audit Committee
- Cerro Blanco Project,Guatemala
- Competitive Conditions
- Corporate Structure
- Description of Capital Structure
- Description of the Business
- Directors and Officers
- Dividends
- El Lim n Project, Mexico
- El Sauzal Mine, Mexico
- Environmental Policy
- General Development of the Business
- Imperial Project, United States
- Interest of Management and Others in Material Transactions
- Interests of Experts
- Introductory Notes
- La Coipa Mine, Chile
- L onore Gold Project, Qu bec
- Los Filos Project, Mexico
- Marigold Mine, United States
- Marlin Mine, Guatemala
- Material Contracts
- Musselwhite Mine, Canada
- Nukay Mine, Mexico
- Operations
- Other Mineral Projects
- Peak Mine, Australia
- Pe asquito Project, Mexico
- Porcupine Mine, Canada
- Principal Products
- Pueblo Viejo Project, Dominican Republic
- Red Lake Gold Mines, Canada
- Risk Factors
- San Dimas Mine, Mexico
- San Martin Mine, Honduras
- San Nicolas Project, Mexico
- Schedule A Audit Committee Charter
- South Arturo Project, United States
- Technical Information
- Trading Price and Volume
- Transfer Agent and Registrar
- Wharf Mine, United States
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| " | Introductory Notes
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| " | Corporate Structure
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| " | General Development of the Business
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| " | Principal Products
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| " | Competitive Conditions
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| " | Operations
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| " | Environmental Policy
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| " | Risk Factors
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| " | Technical Information
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| " | Red Lake Gold Mines, Canada
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| " | Pe asquito Project, Mexico
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| " | Alumbrera Mine, Argentina
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| " | San Dimas Mine, Mexico
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| " | Nukay Mine, Mexico
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| " | Los Filos Project, Mexico
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| " | Marlin Mine, Guatemala
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| " | Pueblo Viejo Project, Dominican Republic
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| " | Other Mineral Projects
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| " | El Sauzal Mine, Mexico
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| " | Porcupine Mine, Canada
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| " | Musselwhite Mine, Canada
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| " | Peak Mine, Australia
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| " | Marigold Mine, United States
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| " | Amapari Mine, Brazil
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| " | La Coipa Mine, Chile
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| " | San Martin Mine, Honduras
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| " | Wharf Mine, United States
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| " | L onore Gold Project, Qu bec
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| " | Cerro Blanco Project,Guatemala
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| " | El Lim n Project, Mexico
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| " | South Arturo Project, United States
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| " | Imperial Project, United States
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| " | San Nicolas Project, Mexico
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| " | Dividends
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| " | Description of Capital Structure
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| " | Trading Price and Volume
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| " | Directors and Officers
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| " | Interest of Management and Others in Material Transactions
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| " | Transfer Agent and Registrar
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| " | Material Contracts
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| " | Interests of Experts
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| " | Audit Committee
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| " | Additional Information
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| " | Schedule A Audit Committee Charter
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INTRODUCTORY NOTES
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This annual information form contains
“forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the
United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and applicable Canadian securities
legislation. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements with respect
to the future price of gold, silver and copper, the estimation of mineral reserves and resources,
the realization of mineral reserve estimates, the timing and amount of estimated future production,
costs of production, capital expenditures, costs and timing of the development of new deposits,
success of exploration activities, permitting time lines, currency exchange rate fluctuations,
requirements for additional capital, government regulation of mining operations, environmental
risks, unanticipated reclamation expenses, title disputes or claims and limitations on insurance
coverage. Generally, these forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of
forward-looking terminology such as
“plans”,
“expects” or
“does not expect”,
“is expected”,
“budget”,
“scheduled”,
“estimates”,
“forecasts”,
“intends”,
“anticipates” or
“does not anticipate”,
or
“believes”, or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or
results
“may”,
“could”,
“would”,
“might” or
“will be taken”,
“occur” or
“be achieved”.
Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors
that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of Goldcorp Inc.
to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements,
including but not limited to: risks related to the integration of acquisitions; risks related to
international operations; risks related to joint venture operations; actual results of current
exploration activities; actual results of current reclamation activities; conclusions of economic
evaluations; changes in project parameters as plans continue to be refined; future prices of gold,
silver and copper; possible variations in ore reserves, grade or recovery rates; failure of plant,
equipment or processes to operate as anticipated; accidents, labour disputes and other risks of the
mining industry; delays in obtaining governmental approvals or financing or in the completion of
development or construction activities, as well as those factors discussed in the section entitled
“Description of the Business – Risk Factors” in this annual information form. Although Goldcorp
Inc. has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those contained in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that
cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such
statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially
from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on
forward-looking statements. Goldcorp Inc. does not undertake to update any forward-looking
statements that are
incorporated by reference herein, except in accordance with applicable
securities laws.
Currency Presentation and Exchange Rate Information
This annual information form contains references to United States dollars and Canadian
dollars. All dollar amounts referenced, unless otherwise indicated, are expressed in United States
dollars and Canadian dollars are referred to as “Canadian dollars” or “C$”.
The high, low, average and closing exchange rates for Canadian dollars in terms of the United
States dollar for each of the three years ended
December 31, 2006, as quoted by the Bank of Canada,
were as follows:
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Year ended December 31 |
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2006 |
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High |
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C$ |
1.1726 |
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C$ |
1.2841 |
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C$ |
1.3968 |
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Low |
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1.0990 |
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1.1507 |
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1.1774 |
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1.1341 |
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1.2118 |
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1.3018 |
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Closing |
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1.1653 |
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1.1659 |
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1.2036 |
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Calculated as an average of the daily noon rates for each period. |
On
March 26, 2007, the closing exchange rate for Canadian dollars in terms of the United
States dollar, as quoted by the Bank of Canada, was US$1.00 = C$1.1617.
Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead and Zinc Prices
Gold Prices
The high, low, average and closing afternoon fixing gold prices in United States dollars per
troy ounce for each of the three years ended
December 31, 2006, as quoted by the London Bullion
Market Association, were as follows:
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725 |
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537 |
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454 |
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525 |
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411 |
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375 |
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604 |
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445 |
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410 |
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Closing |
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632 |
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513 |
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436 |
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On
March 26, 2007, the closing afternoon fixing gold price in United States dollars per
troy ounce, as quoted on the London Bullion Market Association, was $663.
Silver Prices
The high, low, average and closing afternoon fixing silver prices in United States dollars per
troy ounce for each of the three years ended
December 31, 2006, as quoted by the London Bullion
Market Association, were as follows:
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14.94 |
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9.23 |
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8.29 |
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8.83 |
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6.39 |
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5.50 |
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11.55 |
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7.32 |
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6.67 |
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Closing |
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12.90 |
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8.83 |
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6.82 |
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On
March 26, 2007, the closing afternoon fixing silver price in United States dollars per
troy ounce, as quoted on the London Bullion Market Association, was $13.26.
Copper Prices
The high, low, average and closing official cash settlement copper prices in United States
dollars per pound for each of the three years ended
December 31, 2006, as quoted on the London
Metal Exchange, were as follows:
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3.99 |
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2.11 |
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1.49 |
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2.85 |
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On
March 26, 2007, the closing official cash settlement copper price in United States
dollars per pound, as quoted on the London Metal Exchange, was $3.11.
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Lead Prices
The high, low, average and closing official cash settlement lead prices in United States
dollars per pound for each of the three years ended
December 31, 2006, as quoted on the London
Metal Exchange, were as follows:
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0.816 |
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0.518 |
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0.474 |
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0.374 |
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0.583 |
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0.442 |
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0.401 |
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Closing |
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0.774 |
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0.489 |
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0.474 |
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On
March 26, 2007, the closing official cash settlement lead price in United States
dollars per pound, as quoted on the London Metal Exchange, was $0.866.
Zinc Prices
The high, low, average and closing official cash settlement zinc prices in United States
dollars per pound for each of the three years ended
December 31, 2006, as quoted on the London
Metal Exchange, were as follows:
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2.088 |
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0.862 |
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0.569 |
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0.868 |
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0.524 |
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0.428 |
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1.480 |
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0.626 |
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0.475 |
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Closing |
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1.946 |
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0.862 |
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0.569 |
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On
March 26, 2007, the closing official cash settlement zinc price in United States
dollars per pound, as quoted on the London Metal Exchange, was $1.464.
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CORPORATE STRUCTURE
Goldcorp Inc. (
“Goldcorp” or the
“Corporation”) is a corporation governed by the
Business
Corporations Act (Ontario). Effective
December 1, 2006, the Corporation amalgamated with Glamis
Gold Ltd. (
“Glamis”).
The Corporation’s head office is located at Suite 3400, Park Place, 666 Burrard Street,
Vancouver, British Columbia, V6C 2X8 and its registered office is located at Suite 2100, 40 King
Street West, Toronto, Ontario, M5H 3C2.
The following chart illustrates the Corporation’s principal
subsidiaries (collectively, the
“Subsidiaries”), together with the governing law of each company and the percentage of voting
securities beneficially owned or over which control or direction is exercised by the Corporation,
as well as the Corporation’s principal mineral properties. As used in this annual information
form, except as otherwise required by the context, reference to
“Goldcorp” or the
“Corporation”
means, collectively, Goldcorp Inc. and the
Subsidiaries.
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GOLDCORP PRINCIPAL SUBSIDIARIES AND PRINCIPAL MINERAL PROPERTIES
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GENERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE BUSINESS
Goldcorp is engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and operation of precious
metal properties. The principal products and sources of cash flow for Goldcorp are derived from
the sale of gold, silver and copper. Goldcorp’s principal mineral properties are as follows:
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a 100% interest in the Red Lake gold mine comprised of the Red Lake Complex and
the Campbell Complex (the “Red Lake Gold Mines”) in Canada, one of the highest-grade
gold deposits in the world; |
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a 100% interest in the Peñasquito gold project (the “Peñasquito Project”) in Mexico; |
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a 37.5% interest in the Bajo de la Alumbrera gold-copper mine (the “Alumbrera
Mine”) in Argentina; |
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a 100% interest in each of the San Dimas gold-silver mine (the “San Dimas
Mine”) and the Nukay gold-silver mine (the “Nukay Mine”) in Mexico (the San Dimas Mine
and the Nukay Mine herein referred to collectively as the “Luismin Mines”); |
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a 100% interest in the Los Filos gold project (the “Los Filos Project”) in Mexico; |
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a 100% interest in the Marlin gold-silver mine (the “Marlin Mine”) in Guatemala; and |
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a 40% interest in the Pueblo Viejo gold development stage project (the “Pueblo
Viejo Project”) in the Dominican Republic. |
Goldcorp also has interests in the following mineral properties:
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a 100% interest in the El Sauzal gold mine (the “El Sauzal Mine”) in Mexico; |
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a 51% interest in the Porcupine gold mine (the “Porcupine Mine”) in Canada; |
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a 68% interest in the Musselwhite gold mine (the “Musselwhite Mine”) in Canada; |
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a 100% interest in the Peak gold mine (the “Peak Mine”) in Australia; |
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a 66 2/3% interest in the Marigold gold mine (the “Marigold Mine”) in the United States; |
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a 100% interest in the Amapari gold mine (the “Amapari Mine”) in Brazil; |
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a 50% interest in the La Coipa gold-silver mine (the “La Coipa Mine”) in Chile; |
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a 100% interest in the San Martin gold mine (the “San Martin Mine”) in Honduras; |
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a 100% interest in the Wharf gold mine (the “Wharf Mine”) in the United States; |
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a 100% interest in the Éléonore gold project (the “Éléonore Project”) in Québec; |
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a 100% interest in the Cerro Blanco gold project (the “Cerro Blanco Project”) in Guatemala; |
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a 21.2% interest in the El Limón gold exploration project (the “El Limón Project”) in Mexico; |
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a 40% interest in the South Arturo gold exploration project (the “South Arturo
Project”) in the United States; |
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a 100% interest in the Imperial gold exploration project (the “Imperial
Project”) in the United States; and |
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a 35% interest in the San Nicolas zinc-copper exploration project (the “San
Nicolas Project”) in Mexico. |
Goldcorp also owns approximately 49% of Silver Wheaton Corp. (“Silver Wheaton”), a mining
company with 100% of its revenue from silver production which is listed on the Toronto Stock
Exchange (the “TSX”) and the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”) under the symbol “SLW”.
Sale of Peak and Amapari Mines
On
February 19, 2007, Goldcorp announced that it has signed a letter of intent to sell the
Peak Mine and the Amapari Mine to GPJ Ventures Ltd. (
“GPJ”), a TSX Venture Exchange-listed company,
which will change its name to Peak Gold Ltd. (
“Peak Gold”) in connection with the transaction.
Under the terms of the agreement, Goldcorp will receive from Peak Gold $200 million in cash and
$100 million payable through the issuance of Peak Gold common shares. Upon completion of the sale,
Goldcorp will own approximately 22% of Peak Gold.
In connection with the transaction, Julio Carvalho, Goldcorp’s Executive Vice President,
Central and South America, will become President and Chief Executive Officer of Peak Gold, Jim
Simpson, General Manager of the Peak Mine, will become the Chief Operating Officer of Peak Gold and
the initial Peak Gold board of directors will be comprised of Ian Telfer, Frank Giustra, Gordon
Keep and Julio Carvalho. Completion of the transaction is subject to a number of conditions,
including the execution of definitive agreements, requisite regulatory approvals, completion by GPJ
of a C$326.25 million equity financing and approval by disinterested shareholders of GPJ.
Sale of San Martin Mine, Mexico
On
January 31, 2007, Goldcorp completed the sale of the San Martin mine in Mexico to Starcore
International Ventures Ltd. (
“Starcore”) for $24,000,000 and 4,729,000 common shares in the capital
of Starcore.
Glamis Acquisition
On
November 4, 2006, Goldcorp completed its acquisition of Glamis (the
“Glamis Acquisition”).
In connection with the Glamis Acquisition, each Glamis share was exchanged for 1.69 Goldcorp shares
and $0.0001 in cash, resulting in former Glamis shareholders holding approximately 40% of the total
issued and outstanding common shares (the
“Common Shares”) of Goldcorp and Goldcorp shareholders
holding approximately 60% of the total issued and outstanding common shares of Goldcorp. The
assets acquired by Goldcorp included a 100% interest in the Peñasquito Project, a 100% interest in
the Marlin Mine, a 66 2/3% interest in the Marigold Mine, a 100% interest in the El Sauzal Mine and
a 100% interest in the San Martin Mine. Effective
November 15, 2006, in connection with the Glamis
Acquisition, Ian Telfer, former President and Chief Executive Officer of Goldcorp, was appointed
Chairman of Goldcorp, C. Kevin McArthur, former President and Chief Executive Officer of Glamis,
was appointed a director, President and Chief Executive Officer of Goldcorp, Charles Jeannes,
former Executive Vice President, Administration, General Counsel and Secretary of Glamis, was
appointed Executive Vice President, Corporate Development of Goldcorp, and Douglas Holtby, former
Chairman of Goldcorp, was appointed Vice Chairman and Lead Director of Goldcorp. Also effective
November 15, 2006, the board of directors of Goldcorp was reconstituted with six members from the
board of directors of Goldcorp (Ian Telfer, Douglas Holtby, John Bell, Lawrence Bell, Beverley
Briscoe and Peter Dey) and four members from the board of directors of Glamis (C. Kevin McArthur,
P. Randy Reifel, A. Dan Rovig and Kenneth F. Williamson). The Corporation filed a business
acquisition report dated
January 17, 2007 relating to the Glamis Acquisition and a copy of such
report is available under the Corporation’s profile at
www.sedar.com.
Warrant Transaction
In June 2006, Goldcorp received proceeds of more than $450 million upon the early exercise of
five series of listed common share purchase warrants. These proceeds were subsequently used to
repay credit facilities drawn down to fund the acquisition of Placer Dome (CLA) Limited (“Placer
CLA”).
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Placer CLA Acquisition
On
May 12, 2006, Goldcorp acquired all of the issued and outstanding shares of Placer CLA from
Barrick Gold Corporation (
“Barrick”) for a purchase price of approximately $1.6 billion (the
“Placer CLA Acquisition”). The assets acquired by Goldcorp included a 100% interest in the
Campbell Complex, a 50% interest in the La Coipa Mine, a 40% interest in the Pueblo Viejo Project,
a 51% interest in the Porcupine Mine and a 68% interest in the Musselwhite Mine. Goldcorp used a
portion of its then current cash balances and existing credit facilities to fund the Placer CLA
Acquisition. The Corporation filed a business acquisition report dated
July 26, 2006 relating to
the Placer CLA Acquisition and a copy of such report is available under the Corporation’s profile
at
www.sedar.com.
Acquisition of Virginia Gold Mines Inc.
On
March 31, 2006, Goldcorp completed the acquisition of Virginia Gold Mines Inc. and retained
the Eléonore project in the James Bay region of Québec,
pursuant to a
plan of arrangement. Goldcorp is continuing aggressive
exploration and development on the Éléonore property, with resource and scoping studies being
initiated throughout 2006.
Wheaton Merger
On
April 15, 2005, Goldcorp completed its merger (the
“Wheaton Merger”) with Wheaton River
Minerals Ltd. (
“Wheaton”). The Corporation filed a business acquisition report dated
April 5, 2005
relating to the Wheaton Merger and a copy of such report is available under the Corporation’s
profile at
www.sedar.com.
Silver Wheaton Investment
On
October 15, 2004, Wheaton (now Goldcorp) entered into a silver purchase agreement (the
“Silver Purchase Agreement”) with Chap Mercantile Inc. (since renamed Silver Wheaton), Luismin,
S.A. de C.V. (
“Luismin”), Silver Wheaton (Caymans) Ltd. (
“Silver Wheaton Caymans”), a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Silver Wheaton, and Goldcorp Trading (Barbados) Limited (formerly Wheaton Trading
(Caymans) Ltd.) (
“Goldcorp Trading”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Goldcorp, pursuant to which
Silver Wheaton agreed to purchase 100% of the silver produced by Luismin from its Mexican mining
operations for an upfront payment of C$46 million in cash and 108 million common shares of Silver
Wheaton, plus a payment equal to the lesser of (a) $3.90 per ounce of delivered refined silver
(subject to an inflationary price adjustment after
October 15, 2007); and (b) the then prevailing
market price per ounce of silver (the
“Silver Wheaton Transaction”).
Goldcorp Trading has agreed to sell to Silver Wheaton Caymans a minimum of 120 million ounces
of silver (the “Luismin Minimum Amount”) within a period of 25 years following the closing of the
Silver Wheaton Transaction (the “Luismin Guarantee Period”). If at the end of the Luismin
Guarantee Period, the total number of ounces of silver sold by Goldcorp Trading to Silver Wheaton
Caymans is less than the Luismin Minimum Amount, Goldcorp Trading will be required to pay a penalty
to Silver Wheaton Caymans equal to the Luismin Minimum Amount less the number of ounces of silver
actually sold during the Luismin Guarantee Period, multiplied by $0.50. Further, Silver Wheaton
was obligated to pay 50% of any capital expenditures made by Luismin at its mining operations in
excess of 110% of the projected capital expenditures outlined in the agreement.
On
March 30, 2006, Goldcorp and Silver Wheaton amended the Silver Purchase Agreement,
increasing the minimum number of ounces of silver to be delivered over the 25 year
contract period
by 100 million ounces, to 220 million ounces, and waiving any capital expenditure contributions
previously required to be paid by Silver Wheaton. In consideration for these amendments, Silver
Wheaton issued to Goldcorp 18 million common shares, representing approximately 9.8% of the then
outstanding shares of Silver Wheaton, and a $20 million one year non-interest bearing promissory
note, due
March 31, 2007.
Goldcorp has a pre-emptive right until
October 15, 2007, whereby so long as Goldcorp owns,
directly or indirectly, at least 20% of the outstanding Silver Wheaton common shares, it has the
right to maintain its pro-rata interest in Silver Wheaton should Silver Wheaton issue or sell any
common shares or securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for common shares
pursuant to an equity financing or an acquisition, merger, corporate
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reorganization or similar transaction for the fair market value of the equity securities
issued pursuant to the financing or other transaction.
Silver Wheaton has an option to purchase a 49% interest in production, development or
exploration properties acquired by Goldcorp in Mexico until
October 15, 2007. In connection with
the Glamis Acquisition, Silver Wheaton waived its right to acquire an interest in any of Glamis’
Mexican projects and Goldcorp agreed to negotiate exclusively with Silver Wheaton, until
May 3,
2007, for the potential purchase by Silver Wheaton of a portion of the future production of silver
to be mined, produced or otherwise recovered from the Peñasquito Project. If Silver Wheaton and
Goldcorp are not successful in entering into a silver purchase agreement on the Peñasquito Project
during such time, Silver Wheaton will retain a right of first refusal on any future silver purchase
agreements based on the Peñasquito Project, for so long as Goldcorp maintains at least a 20%
interest in Silver Wheaton.
In connection with the Silver Wheaton Transaction, Wheaton (now Goldcorp) entered into an
administration and management services agreement (the “Silver Wheaton Services Agreement”) with
Silver Wheaton whereby Silver Wheaton has agreed to pay a monthly fee to Wheaton (now Goldcorp) for
use of a portion of its office facilities and the services of its personnel. In connection with
the Wheaton Merger (see “Wheaton Merger” above), Goldcorp has assumed Wheaton’s responsibilities
under the Silver Wheaton Services Agreement.
On
December 7, 2006, Goldcorp sold 18 million common shares of Silver Wheaton pursuant to a
public offering for proceeds to Goldcorp of approximately C$217.9 million. The Corporation
currently owns approximately 49% of Silver Wheaton.
DESCRIPTION OF THE BUSINESS
Goldcorp is engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and operation of precious
metal properties. The Corporation continues to investigate and negotiate the acquisition of
additional precious metal mining properties or interests in such properties. There is no assurance
that any such investigations or negotiations will result in the completion of an acquisition.
Principal Products
The Corporation’s principal product is gold. As a result of the Wheaton Merger, in addition
to gold, the Corporation also produces silver and copper. As a result of the Glamis Acquisition,
the Corporation is expected to be a future producer of lead and zinc from the Peñasquito Project.
There is a worldwide gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc market into which the Corporation can sell
and, as a result, the Corporation will not be dependent on a particular purchaser with regard to
the sale of the gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc which it produces.
Competitive Conditions
The precious metal mineral exploration and mining business is a competitive business. The
Corporation competes with numerous other companies and individuals in the search for and the
acquisition of attractive precious metal mineral properties. The ability of the Corporation to
acquire precious metal mineral properties in the future will depend not only on its ability to
develop its present properties, but also on its ability to select and acquire suitable producing
properties or prospects for precious metal development or mineral exploration.
Operations
Raw Materials
The Corporation has (i) gold mineral reserves at the Red Lake Gold Mines, the Nukay Mine, the
El Sauzal Mine, the Porcupine Mine, the Musselwhite Mine, the Marigold Mine, the Amapari Mine, the
San Martin Mine and the Wharf Mine; (ii) gold and silver mineral reserves at the San Dimas Mine,
the Los Filos Project, the Marlin Mine and the La Coipa Mine; (iii) gold and copper mineral
reserves at the Alumbrera Mine; (iv) gold, silver, copper and zinc mineral reserves at the Pueblo
Viejo Project; (v) gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc mineral reserves at the Peak Mine; and (vi)
gold, silver, lead and zinc mineral reserves at the Peñasquito Project.
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Environmental Protection Requirements
The Corporation’s mining, exploration and development activities are subject to various levels
of federal, provincial and state laws and regulations relating to the protection of the
environment, including requirements for closure and reclamation of mining properties. See
disclosure regarding environmental matters under the respective descriptions of the Corporation’s
mineral projects herein for further details.
Employees
As at
December 31, 2006, the Corporation had the following employees and contractors:
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| Location |
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Full-Time Salaried |
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Hourly (Non-Union) |
|
|
Hourly (Union) |
|
|
Contractors |
|
Vancouver Office |
|
|
39 |
|
|
|
0 |
|
|
|
0 |
|
|
|
1 |
|
Toronto Office |
|
|
11 |
|
|
|
0 |
|
|
|
0 |
|
|
|
0 |
|
Reno Office |
|
|
30 |
|
|
|
0 |
|
|
|
0 |
|
|
|
0 |
|
Sydney Office |
|
|
3 |
|
|
|
0 |
|
|
|
0 |
|
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1 |
|
Rio de Janeiro Office |
|
|
19 |
|
|
|
0 |
|
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|
0 |
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0 |
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Red Lake Gold Mines |
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|
296 |
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219 |
|
|
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0 |
|
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|
723 |
(1) |
Peñasquito Project |
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152 |
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|
0 |
|
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0 |
|
|
|
123 |
|
Luismin Mines (2) |
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|
297 |
|
|
|
0 |
|
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655 |
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2,326 |
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Marlin Mine |
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869 |
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|
0 |
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0 |
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252 |
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El Sauzal Mine |
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285 |
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|
0 |
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0 |
|
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|
0 |
|
Porcupine Mine |
|
|
169 |
|
|
|
190 |
|
|
|
227 |
|
|
|
185 |
|
Musselwhite Mine |
|
|
363 |
|
|
|
0 |
|
|
|
0 |
|
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|
118 |
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Peak Mine |
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|
218 |
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|
0 |
|
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0 |
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|
41 |
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Marigold Mine |
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|
26 |
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|
165 |
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|
0 |
|
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0 |
|
Amapari Mine |
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|
473 |
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|
|
0 |
|
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|
0 |
|
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|
398 |
|
San Martin Mine |
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|
229 |
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|
|
0 |
|
|
|
0 |
|
|
|
0 |
|
Wharf Mine |
|
|
22 |
|
|
|
98 |
|
|
|
0 |
|
|
|
0 |
|
Éléonore Project |
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|
8 |
|
|
|
27 |
|
|
|
0 |
|
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|
51 |
|
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3,509 |
|
|
|
699 |
|
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|
882 |
|
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4,218 |
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| (1) |
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Goldcorp has contracted the underground portion of the Red Lake Gold Mines to Dynatec
Corporation (“Dynatec”) of Richmond Hill, Ontario. Under the terms of the agreement, expiring
on December 31, 2007, Dynatec provides all mining services. |
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| (2) |
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Includes the Los Filos Project and the Nukay Mine. |
Foreign Operations Risks
The Corporation currently owns 37.5% of the Alumbrera Mine in Argentina, the Peñasquito
Project, the Luismin Mines, the El Sauzal Mine, the Los Filos Project and 21.2% of the El Limón
Project in Mexico, the Amapari Mine in Brazil, the Peak Mine in Australia, the La Coipa Mine in
Chile, the Marlin Mine in Guatemala, the San Martin Mine in Honduras and the Pueblo Viejo Project
in the Dominican Republic. Any changes in regulations or shifts in political attitudes in such
foreign countries are beyond the control of the Corporation and may adversely affect its business.
Future development and operations may be affected in varying degrees by such factors as government
regulations (or changes thereto) with respect to the restrictions on production, export controls,
income taxes, expropriation of property, repatriation of profits, environmental legislation, land
use, water use, land claims of local people and mine safety. The effect of these factors cannot be
accurately predicted. See
“Description of the Business — Risk Factors — Foreign Operations” and
“Description of the Business — Risk Factors — Foreign Subsidiaries”.
Environmental Policy
Goldcorp has implemented an environmental policy which states that the Corporation and its
subsidiaries are committed to the protection of life, health and the environment for present and
future generations. Resources will be focused to achieve shareholder profitability in all
operations without neglecting Goldcorp’s commitment to sustainable development. The needs and
culture of the local communities will be respected. All employees are responsible for
incorporating into their planning and work the actions necessary to fulfill this commitment.
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To meet these responsibilities, Goldcorp and its
subsidiaries will provide its employees with
the necessary resources to:
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Design, construct, operate and close the Corporation’s facilities to comply with
applicable local regulations and laws and to meet international guidelines. |
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• |
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Promote employee commitment and accountability to this policy and enhance their
capabilities in its implementation through the use of integrated management systems. |
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• |
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Promote the development and implementation of effective, realistic systems to minimize
risks to health, safety and the environment. |
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• |
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Be proactive in community development programs so the communities are not reliant on
the mines for their future. |
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• |
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Communicate openly with employees, local stakeholders and governments on the
Corporation’s plans, programs and performance. |
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• |
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Work cooperatively with government agencies, local communities, educational
institutions and suppliers to achieve safe handling, use and disposal of all of the
Corporation’s materials, resources and products. |
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• |
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Use the best technologies to continuously improve the safe, efficient use of resources,
processes and materials. |
Risk Factors
The operations of the Corporation are speculative due to the high-risk nature of its business
which is the acquisition, financing, exploration, development and operation of mining properties.
These risk factors could materially affect the Corporation’s future operating results and could
cause actual events to differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements
relating to the Corporation.
Exploration, Development and Operating Risk
Although Goldcorp’s activities are primarily directed towards mining operations and the
development of mineral deposits, its activities also include the exploration for and development of
mineral deposits.
Mining operations generally involve a high degree of risk. Goldcorp’s operations are subject
to all the hazards and risks normally encountered in the exploration, development and production of
gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc including unusual and unexpected geologic formations, seismic
activity, rock bursts, cave-ins, flooding and other conditions involved in the drilling and removal
of material, any of which could result in damage to, or destruction of, mines and other producing
facilities, damage to life or property, environmental damage and possible legal liability.
Although adequate precautions to minimize risk will be taken, milling operations are subject to
hazards such as equipment failure or failure of retaining dams around tailings disposal areas which
may result in environmental pollution and consequent liability.
The exploration for and development of mineral deposits involves significant risks which even
a combination of careful evaluation, experience and knowledge may not eliminate. While the
discovery of an ore body may result in substantial rewards, few properties which are explored are
ultimately developed into producing mines. Major expenses may be required to locate and establish
mineral reserves, to develop metallurgical processes and to construct mining and processing
facilities at a particular site. It is impossible to ensure that the exploration or development
programs planned by Goldcorp or any of its joint venture partners will result in a profitable
commercial mining operation. Whether a mineral deposit will be commercially viable depends on a
number of factors, some of which are: the particular attributes of the deposit, such as size,
grade, metallurgy and proximity to infrastructure; metal prices which are highly cyclical; and
government regulations, including regulations relating to prices, taxes, royalties, land tenure,
land use, importing and exporting of minerals and environmental protection.
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The exact effect of these factors cannot be accurately predicted, but the combination of these
factors may result in Goldcorp not receiving an adequate return on invested capital.
There is no certainty that the expenditures made by Goldcorp towards the search and evaluation
of mineral deposits will result in discoveries of commercial quantities of ore.
Environmental Risks and Hazards
All phases of Goldcorp’s operations are subject to environmental regulation in the various
jurisdictions in which it operates. These regulations mandate, among other things, the maintenance
of air and water quality standards and land reclamation. They also set forth limitations on the
generation, transportation, storage and disposal of solid and hazardous waste. Environmental
legislation is evolving in a manner which will require stricter standards and enforcement,
increased fines and penalties for non-compliance, more stringent environmental assessments of
proposed projects and a heightened degree of responsibility for companies and their officers,
directors and employees. There is no assurance that future changes in environmental regulation, if
any, will not adversely affect Goldcorp’s operations. Environmental hazards may exist on the
properties on which Goldcorp holds interests which are unknown to Goldcorp at present and which
have been caused by previous or existing owners or operators of the properties.
Government approvals and permits are currently, and may in the future be, required in
connection with Goldcorp’s operations. To the extent such approvals are required and not obtained,
Goldcorp may be curtailed or prohibited from continuing its mining operations or from proceeding
with planned exploration or development of mineral properties.
Failure to comply with applicable laws, regulations and permitting requirements may result in
enforcement actions thereunder, including orders issued by regulatory or judicial authorities
causing operations to cease or be curtailed, and may include corrective measures requiring capital
expenditures, installation of additional equipment, or remedial actions. Parties engaged in mining
operations or in the exploration or development of mineral properties may be required to compensate
those suffering loss or damage by reason of the mining activities and may have civil or criminal
fines or penalties imposed for violations of applicable laws or regulations.
Amendments to current laws, regulations and permits governing operations and activities of
mining and exploration companies, or more stringent implementation thereof, could have a material
adverse impact on Goldcorp and cause increases in exploration expenses, capital expenditures or
production costs or reduction in levels of production at producing properties or require
abandonment or delays in development of new mining properties.
Production at certain of Goldcorp’s mines involves the use of sodium cyanide which is a toxic
material. Should sodium cyanide leak or otherwise be discharged from the containment system then
Goldcorp may become subject to liability for clean up work that may not be insured. While all
steps will be taken to prevent discharges of pollutants into the ground water and the environment,
Goldcorp may become subject to liability for hazards that it may not be insured against.
Environmental Risks at the Alumbrera Mine
Despite design considerations at the Alumbrera Mine, a seepage plume, characterized by
elevated concentrations of calcium and sulphate, has developed in the natural groundwater
downstream of the tailings facility, currently within the Minera Alumbrera Limited (“MAL”)
concession. A series of pump back wells have been established to capture the seepage. It will be
necessary to augment the pump back wells over the life of the mine in order to contain the plume
within the concession and to provide for monitoring wells for the Vis Vis River. Based on the
latest ground water model, the pump back system will need to be operated for several years after
mine closure.
The concentrate pipeline at the Alumbrera Mine crosses areas of mountainous terrain,
significant rivers, high rainfall and active agriculture. Although various control structures and
monitoring programs have been implemented, any rupture of the pipeline poses an environmental risk
from spillage of concentrate.
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Goldcorp did not obtain any indemnities from the vendors of its 37.5% interest in the
Alumbrera Mine against any potential environmental liabilities that may arise from operations,
including, but not limited to, potential liabilities that may arise from the seepage plume or a
rupture of the pipeline.
Environmental Risks at the Red Lake Gold Mines
A seepage plume from the tailings storage facility at the Campbell Complex was identified in
the mid 1990s. Leakage of tailings impoundment water could cause environmental damage. Goldcorp
conducts ongoing monitoring of the groundwater downgradient of the tailings facility and reports
the results to the Ontario Ministry of the Environment (the “MOE”). In addition, a leachate
contingency program has been implemented, as submitted to the MOE in 2005. No additional
remediation has been required by the MOE at this time and the Corporation is following the
conditions outlined in the contingency program.
Other risks include the management of arsenic trioxide and Balmer Lake. Arsenic trioxide
stored underground at Campbell could leach into groundwater when dewatering of the mine is no
longer required at closure. The current mine life at the Red Lake Gold Mines is 13 years; however
financial assurance has been set aside for up to 100 years post closure to maintain water levels
below arsenic trioxide storage facilities. Currently a pilot scale arsenic trioxide recovery
project is in progress to remove the arsenic from the underground workings prior to closure.
Balmer Lake was used historically as a tertiary polishing pond by both Red Lake and Campbell
complexes since the 1940s. In September 1999, the MOE issued a Control Order to the Red Lake and
Campbell mines to conduct technical investigations to obtain an improved understanding of then
recent elevated arsenic concentrations in Balmer Lake. These studies have been ongoing to
understand the current ecosystem in the lake and to develop a long-term management plan for the
watershed.
Should remediation associated with the above liabilities be required, and should Goldcorp be
unable to fund fully the cost of remediating an environmental problem, Goldcorp may be required to
suspend operations or enter into interim compliance measures pending completion of required
remediation, which could have a material adverse effect on Goldcorp.
Luismin Tailings Management Risks
Although the design and operation of tailings containment sites in the San Dimas district
complies with existing permits and legal requirements in Mexico, existing tailings containment
sites do not comply with international guidelines. Tailings containment sites which existed at the
time of acquisition were not subjected to comprehensive geotechnical investigation before
construction, normal safety factors in dam design, seepage monitoring or control, nor controls on
public or wildlife access to cyanide solution ponds or pumping installations. These are being
addressed by Luismin and investments are currently being made to upgrade the containment structures
and tailings operations to bring them in line with accepted practices. Enforcement of regulatory
requirements in Mexico is becoming more stringent and can be expected to become more aligned with
international guidelines in the future. See “Description of the Business – Luismin Mines, Mexico –
Environmental”.
Goldcorp will be required to make further expenditures to maintain compliance with applicable
environmental regulations. Goldcorp may incur environmental liability for mining activities
conducted both prior to and during its ownership of the Luismin operations. To the extent that
Goldcorp is subject to uninsured environmental liabilities, the payment for such liabilities would
reduce funds otherwise available and could have a material adverse effect on Goldcorp. Should
Goldcorp be unable to fund fully the cost of remedying an environmental problem, Goldcorp may be
required to suspend operations or enter into interim compliance measures pending completion of
required remediation, which could have a material adverse effect on Goldcorp.
Goldcorp did not obtain any indemnities from the vendors of Luismin against any potential
environmental liabilities, including, but not limited to, those that may arise from possible
failure of the San Antonio tailings dam.
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Peñasquito Development and Marketing Risk
The Peñasquito Project is currently at the construction stage of its development.
Construction and development of the project is subject to numerous risks, including, but not
limited to, delays in obtaining equipment, material and services essential to completing
construction of the project in a timely manner; changes in environmental or other government
regulations; currency exchange rates; labour shortages; and fluctuation in metal prices. There can
be no assurance that the construction will continue in accordance with current expectations or at
all.
Concentrates containing combinations of gold, silver, lead and zinc will be produced in large
quantities at Peñasquito and loaded onto highway road vehicles and/or rail cars for transport to
in-country smelters or to sea ports for export to foreign smelters in markets such as Asia, Europe
and North America. This type of process incurs a high level of environmental and financial risk.
Goldcorp could be subject to potential significant increases in road and maritime transportation
charges and refinery charges. Transportation of such concentrate is also subject to numerous risks
including, but not limited to, delays in delivery of shipments, road blocks, terrorism, weather
conditions and environmental liabilities in the event of an accident or leak. Goldcorp could be
subject to limited smelter availability and capacity and could also face the risk of a potential
interruption of business from a third party beyond its control, which in both cases could have a
material adverse affect on Goldcorp operations and revenues. There is no assurance that smelting,
refining or transportation
contracts for the Peñasquito products will be entered into on acceptable
terms or at all.
Environmental Risks at Marigold Mine and the South Arturo Project
The old milling operations at Goldcorp’s Marigold Mine and South Arturo Project (acquired in
connection with the Glamis Acquisition) have tailing impoundments that have known leakage as
detected by monitoring wells. Leakage of heap leaching solutions could cause environmental damage.
Goldcorp does not believe that groundwater resources have been affected and Goldcorp has
successfully completed remediation measures to halt the leakage as approved by the Nevada
Department of Environmental Protection. However, should Goldcorp be unable to fund fully the cost
of remedying an environmental problem, Goldcorp may be required to suspend operations or enter into
interim compliance measures pending completion of required remediation, which could have a material
adverse effect on Goldcorp.
Permitting
Goldcorp’s operations in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, the Dominican Republic,
Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and the United States are subject to receiving and maintaining permits
from appropriate governmental authorities. Although Goldcorp’s mining operations currently have
all required permits for their operations as currently conducted, there is no assurance that delays
will not occur in connection with obtaining all necessary renewals of such permits for the existing
operations, additional permits for any possible future changes to operations, or additional permits
associated with new legislation. Prior to any development on any of its properties, Goldcorp must
receive permits from appropriate governmental authorities. There can be no assurance that Goldcorp
will continue to hold all permits necessary to develop or continue operating at any particular
property.
Infrastructure
Mining, processing, development and exploration activities depend, to one degree or another,
on adequate infrastructure. Reliable roads, bridges, power sources and water supply are important
determinants, which affect capital and operating costs. Unusual or infrequent weather phenomena,
sabotage, government or other interference in the maintenance or provision of such infrastructure
could adversely affect Goldcorp’s operations, financial condition and results of operations.
Business Interruption Risks at the Alumbrera Mine
The failure or rupture of the pipeline, depending on the location of such occurrence, could
result in significant interruption of operations of MAL and could adversely affect Goldcorp’s
financial condition and results of operations.
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The Alumbrera Mine is located in a remote area of Argentina. On average, more than 2,000
people are transported by road and more than 1,200 people are transported by air, to and from the
mine site every month. A serious accident involving a bus or plane could result in multiple
fatalities. The disruption of these services could also result in significant disruption to the
operations of MAL and have an adverse effect on the financial condition and operations of Goldcorp.
Uncertainty in the Estimation of Ore/Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources
The figures for Ore/Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources contained in this annual
information form are estimates only and no assurance can be given that the anticipated tonnages and
grades will be achieved, that the indicated level of recovery will be realized or that Ore/Mineral
Reserves could be mined or processed profitably. There are numerous uncertainties inherent in
estimating Ore/Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources, including many factors beyond Goldcorp’s
control. Such estimation is a subjective process, and the accuracy of any reserve or resource
estimate is a function of the quantity and quality of available data and of the assumptions made
and judgments used in engineering and geological interpretation. Short-term operating factors
relating to the Ore/Mineral Reserves, such as the need for orderly development of the ore bodies or
the processing of new or different ore grades, may cause the mining operation to be unprofitable in
any particular accounting period. In addition, there can be no assurance that gold, silver or
copper recoveries in small scale laboratory tests will be duplicated in larger scale tests under
on-site conditions or during production.
Fluctuation in gold, silver, copper, zinc or lead prices, results of drilling, metallurgical
testing and production and the evaluation of mine plans subsequent to the date of any estimate may
require revision of such estimate. The volume and grade of reserves mined and processed and
recovery rates may not be the same as currently anticipated. Any material reductions in estimates
of Ore/Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources, or of Goldcorp’s ability to extract these
Ore/Mineral Reserves, could have a material adverse effect on Goldcorp’s results of operations and
financial condition.
Uncertainty Relating to Inferred Mineral Resources
Inferred mineral resources that are not mineral reserves do not have demonstrated economic
viability. Goldcorp’s Luismin Mines’ life of mine plans run from 10 to 20 years which include
approximately 68% of production based on inferred mineral resources. Due to the uncertainty which
may attach to inferred mineral resources, there is no assurance that inferred mineral resources
will be upgraded to proven and probable mineral reserves as a result of continued exploration.
Need for Additional Ore/Mineral Reserves
Because mines have limited lives based on proven and probable ore/mineral reserves, Goldcorp
must continually replace and expand its ore/mineral reserves as its mines produce gold, silver and
copper. The life-of-mine estimates included in this annual information form for each of Goldcorp’s
operating mines may not be correct. Goldcorp’s ability to maintain or increase its annual
production of gold, silver and copper will be dependent in significant part on its ability to bring
new mines into production and to expand ore/mineral reserves at existing mines.
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Goldcorp’s operating mineral properties have the following estimated mine lives:
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Estimated Mine Life |
Red Lake Gold Mines |
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13 years |
Alumbrera Mine |
|
10 years |
San Dimas Mine |
|
20 years |
Nukay Mine |
|
10 years |
Marlin Mine |
|
9 years |
El Sauzal Mine |
|
4 years |
Porcupine Mine |
|
14 years |
Musselwhite Mine |
|
7 years |
Peak Mine |
|
8 years |
Marigold Mine |
|
11 years |
Amapari Mine |
|
5 years |
La Coipa Mine |
|
4 years |
San Martin Mine |
|
1 year |
Wharf Mine |
|
2 years |
Commodity Prices
The price of the Common Shares, Goldcorp’s financial results and exploration, development and
mining activities have previously been, or may in the future be, significantly adversely affected
by declines in the price of gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc. Gold, silver, copper, lead and
zinc prices fluctuate widely and are affected by numerous factors beyond Goldcorp’s control such as
the sale or purchase of metals by various central banks and financial institutions, interest rates,
exchange rates, inflation or deflation, fluctuation in the value of the United States dollar and
foreign currencies, global and regional supply and demand, and the political and economic
conditions of major metals-producing countries throughout the world. The price of gold, silver,
copper, lead and zinc has fluctuated widely in recent years, and future serious price declines
could cause continued development of and commercial production from Goldcorp’s properties to be
impracticable. Depending on the price of gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc, cash flow from
mining operations may not be sufficient and Goldcorp could be forced to discontinue production and
may lose its interest in, or may be forced to sell, some of its properties. Future production from
Goldcorp’s mining properties is dependent on gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc prices that are
adequate to make these properties economic.
Furthermore, reserve calculations and life-of-mine plans using significantly lower gold,
silver, copper, lead and zinc prices could result in material write-downs of Goldcorp’s investment
in mining properties and increased amortization, reclamation and closure charges.
In addition to adversely affecting Goldcorp’s reserve estimates and its financial condition,
declining commodity prices can impact operations by requiring a reassessment of the feasibility of
a particular project. Such a reassessment may be the result of a management decision or may be
required under financing arrangements related to a particular project. Even if the project is
ultimately determined to be economically viable, the need to conduct such a reassessment may cause
substantial delays or may interrupt operations until the reassessment can be completed.
Copper concentrate from the Alumbrera Mine is shipped to smelters in Europe, India, the Far
East, Canada and Brazil. Lead and zinc concentrates will also be shipped from the Peñasquito
Project. Transportation costs of metal concentrates could increase substantially due to an
increase in the price of oil or a shortage in the number of vessels available to ship concentrate
to smelters.
Commodity Hedging
Currently Goldcorp’s policy is to not hedge future gold sales, however, this policy may change
in the future. Goldcorp has entered into copper hedging instruments to manage exposure to
fluctuations in copper prices.
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There is no assurance that a commodity-hedging program designed to reduce the risk associated
with fluctuations in metal prices will be successful. Hedging may not protect adequately against
declines in the price of the hedged metal. Although hedging may protect Goldcorp from a decline in
the price of the metal being hedged, it may also prevent Goldcorp from benefiting fully from price
increases.
Exchange Rate Fluctuations
Exchange rate fluctuations may affect the costs that Goldcorp incurs in its operations. Gold,
silver, copper, lead and zinc is sold in United States dollars and Goldcorp’s costs are incurred
principally in Canadian dollars, Mexican pesos, Argentine pesos, Brazilian reals and Australian
dollars. The appreciation of non-United States dollar currencies against the United States dollar
can increase the cost of gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc production in United States dollar
terms. Goldcorp has a policy to transact currency hedging to reduce the risk associated with
currency fluctuations, however, Goldcorp has not entered into such types of transactions. There is
no assurance that its hedging strategies will be successful. Sudden fluctuations in currencies
could result in margin calls that could have an adverse effect on Goldcorp.
Land Title
Although the title to the properties owned and proposed to be acquired by Goldcorp were
reviewed by or on behalf of Goldcorp, no formal title opinions were delivered to Goldcorp and,
consequently, no assurances can be given that there are no title defects affecting such properties.
Title insurance generally is not available, and Goldcorp’s ability to ensure that it has obtained
secure claim to individual mineral properties or mining concessions may be severely constrained.
Goldcorp has not conducted surveys of the claims in which it holds direct or indirect interests
and, therefore, the precise area and location of such claims may be in doubt. Accordingly,
Goldcorp’s mineral properties may be subject to prior unregistered liens, agreements, transfers or
claims, including native land claims, and title may be affected by, among other things, undetected
defects. In addition, Goldcorp may be unable to operate its properties as permitted or to enforce
its rights with respect to its properties.
Portions of Goldcorp’s mineral reserves come from unpatented mining claims in the United
States. There is a risk that any of Goldcorp’s unpatented mining claims could be determined to be
invalid, in which case Goldcorp could lose the right to mine mineral reserves contained within
those mining claims. Unpatented mining claims are created and maintained in accordance with the
General Mining Law of 1872. Unpatented mining claims are unique to United States property
interests, and are generally considered to be subject to greater title risk than other real
property interests due to the validity of unpatented mining claims often being uncertain. This
uncertainty arises, in part, out of the complex federal and state laws and regulations under the
General Mining Law of 1872. Unpatented mining claims are always subject to possible challenges of
third parties or contests by the federal government. The validity of an unpatented mining claim,
in terms of both its location and its maintenance, is dependent on strict compliance with a complex
body of federal and state statutory and decisional law.
In recent years, the United States Congress has considered a number of proposed amendments to
the General Mining Law of 1872. If adopted, such legislation, among other things, could impose
royalties on gold production from unpatented mining claims located on United States federal lands,
result in the denial of permits to mine after the expenditure of significant funds for exploration
and development, reduce estimates of mineral reserves and reduce the amount of future exploration
and development activity on United States federal lands, all of which could have a material and
adverse affect on Goldcorp’s cash flow, results of operations and financial condition.
Competition
The mining industry is competitive in all of its phases. Goldcorp faces strong competition
from other mining companies in connection with the acquisition of properties producing, or capable
of producing, precious and base metals. Many of these companies have greater financial resources,
operational experience and technical capabilities than Goldcorp. As a result of this competition,
Goldcorp may be unable to maintain or acquire attractive mining properties on terms it considers
acceptable or at all. Consequently, Goldcorp’s revenues, operations and financial condition could
be materially adversely affected.
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Additional Capital
The mining, processing, development and exploration of Goldcorp’s properties, may require
substantial additional financing. Failure to obtain sufficient financing may result in delaying or
indefinite postponement of exploration, development or production on any or all of Goldcorp’s
properties or even a loss of property interest. There can be no assurance that additional capital
or other types of financing will be available if needed or that, if available, the terms of such
financing will be favourable to Goldcorp. Low gold prices during the five years prior to 2002
adversely affected Goldcorp’s ability to obtain financing, and low gold, silver, copper, lead and
zinc prices could have similar effects in the future.
Government Regulation
The mining, processing, development and mineral exploration activities of Goldcorp are subject
to various laws governing prospecting, development, production, taxes, labour standards and
occupational health, mine safety, toxic substances, land use, water use, land claims of local
people and other matters. Although Goldcorp’s mining and processing operations and exploration and
development activities are currently carried out in accordance with all applicable rules and
regulations, no assurance can be given that new rules and regulations will not be enacted or that
existing rules and regulations will not be applied in a manner which could limit or curtail
production or development. Amendments to current laws and regulations governing operations and
activities of mining and milling or more stringent implementation thereof could have a substantial
adverse impact on Goldcorp.
Foreign Operations
The majority of Goldcorp’s foreign operations are currently conducted in Argentina, Australia,
Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and the United States, and as
such Goldcorp’s operations are exposed to various levels of political, economic and other risks and
uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties vary from country to country and include, but are not
limited to, terrorism; hostage taking; military repression; expropriation; extreme fluctuations in
currency exchange rates; high rates of inflation; labour unrest; the risks of war or civil unrest;
expropriation and nationalization; renegotiation or nullification of existing concessions,
licenses, permits and
contracts; illegal mining; changes in taxation policies; restrictions on
foreign exchange and repatriation; and changing political conditions, currency controls and
governmental regulations that favour or require the awarding of
contracts to local contractors or
require foreign contractors to employ citizens of, or purchase supplies from, a particular
jurisdiction.
Changes, if any, in mining or investment policies or shifts in political attitude in
Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and the
United States may adversely affect Goldcorp’s operations or profitability. Operations may be
affected in varying degrees by government regulations with respect to, but not limited to,
restrictions on production, price controls, export controls, currency remittance, income taxes,
expropriation of property, foreign investment, maintenance of claims, environmental legislation,
land use, land claims of local people, water use and mine safety.
Failure to comply strictly with applicable laws, regulations and local practices relating to
mineral right applications and tenure, could result in loss, reduction or expropriation of
entitlements, or the imposition of additional local or foreign parties as joint venture partners
with carried or other interests.
The occurrence of these various factors and uncertainties cannot be accurately predicted and
could have an adverse effect on Goldcorp’s operations or profitability.
Labour and Employment Matters
While Goldcorp has good relations with both its unionized and non-unionized employees,
production at the Luismin mining operations and at the Alumbrera and Peak mines is dependant upon
the efforts of Goldcorp’s and MAL’s employees. In addition, relations between Goldcorp and its
employees may be impacted by changes in the scheme of labour relations which may be introduced by
the relevant governmental authorities in whose jurisdictions Goldcorp carries on business. Adverse
changes in such legislation or in the relationship between Goldcorp or MAL
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with its employees may have a material adverse effect on Goldcorp’s business, results of
operations and financial condition.
Dependence on Dynatec
Goldcorp has outsourced a portion of its needs for underground mining personnel at the Red
Lake Complex under a
contract with Dynatec which expires on
December 31, 2007. During development
of the mine in 1999 and 2000, Dynatec was the underground development and construction contractor
and, since completion, has continued as the underground mining services contractor. Under the
contract, Dynatec will receive incentive payments for achieving specified levels of tonnage
production. Goldcorp relies exclusively on Dynatec to bring ore at the Red Lake Gold Mines to the
surface for processing. Any interruption in, or problems with, the mining services provided by
Dynatec could lead to a partial disruption of mining operations at the Red Lake Gold Mines and
adversely affect Goldcorp’s gold production.
Economic and Political Instability in Argentina
The Alumbrera Mine is located in Argentina. There are risks relating to an uncertain or
unpredictable political and economic environment in Argentina.
In response to the political and economic instability in Argentina, in January 2002, the
government announced the abandonment of the one to one peg of the Argentina peso to the U.S.
dollar. During the economic crisis, Argentina defaulted on foreign debt repayments and, from
November 2002 to January 2003, Argentina defaulted on the repayment on a number of official loans
to multinational organizations. In January 2003, the International Monetary Fund agreed to
reschedule certain debt owed by Argentina and approved a short term credit line to repay debts to
multinational organizations that could not be postponed.
There is the risk of political violence and increased social tension in Argentina as a result
of the economic performance and Argentina has experienced an increase in civil unrest, crime and
labour unrest. In addition, the government has also renegotiated or defaulted on contractual
arrangements. Roadblocks (piqueterou) by members of the local communities, unemployed people and
unions can occur on most national and provincial routes without notice. There have been some minor
disruptions to access routes near the mine site which did not affect the supply of goods to the
mine. Although there has not been any recurrence of disruptions in the past year, there is no
assurance that disruptions will not occur in the future which will affect the supply of goods.
Certain events could have significant political ramifications to MAL in Argentina. In
particular, serious environmental incidents such as contamination of groundwater and surface water
downstream of the tailings dam due to uncontrolled migration of the sulphate plume or other events,
may occur which would constitute a major breach of Environmental Impact Report (“EIR”) commitments.
The Alumbrera mining prospects are owned by YMAD, a quasi-governmental mining company,
pursuant to an Argentine mining law which granted YMAD such rights. YMAD has granted a mining
lease to MAL pursuant to the UTE Agreement (see “Description of the Business — Alumbrera Mine,
Argentina — Property Description and Location” for details regarding the UTE Agreement).
Significant political changes in Argentina which impact foreign investment and mining in general,
or YMAD or MAL’s rights to the Alumbrera mining prospects in particular, could adversely impact
MAL’s ability to operate the Alumbrera Mine.
Certain political and economic events such as: (i) the inability of MAL to obtain U.S. dollars
in a lawful market of Argentina; (ii) acts or failures to act by a government authority in
Argentina; and (iii) acts of political violence in Argentina, could have a material adverse effect
on MAL’s ability to operate the Alumbrera Mine.
Goldcorp is a holding company that conducts operations through foreign (Antiguan, Australian,
Argentinian, Barbadian, Bermudian, Brazilian, Chilean, Cayman Island, Guatemalan, Honduran, Mexican
and American)
subsidiaries, joint ventures and divisions, and substantially all of its assets are
held in such entities. Accordingly, any limitation on the transfer of cash or other assets between
the parent corporation and such entities,
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or among such entities, could restrict Goldcorp’s ability to fund its operations efficiently.
Any such limitations, or the perception that such limitations may exist now or in the future, could
have an adverse impact on Goldcorp’s valuation and stock price.
Insurance and Uninsured Risks
Goldcorp’s business is subject to a number of risks and hazards generally, including adverse
environmental conditions, industrial accidents, labour disputes, unusual or unexpected geological
conditions, ground or slope failures, cave-ins, changes in the regulatory environment and natural
phenomena such as inclement weather conditions, floods, hurricanes and earthquakes. Such
occurrences could result in damage to mineral properties or production facilities, personal injury
or death, environmental damage to Goldcorp’s properties or the properties of others, delays in
mining, monetary losses and possible legal liability.
Although Goldcorp maintains insurance to protect against certain risks in such amounts as it
considers to be reasonable, its insurance will not cover all the potential risks associated with a
mining company’s operations. Goldcorp may also be unable to maintain insurance to cover these
risks at economically feasible premiums. Insurance coverage may not continue to be available or
may not be adequate to cover any resulting liability. Moreover, insurance against risks such as
environmental pollution or other hazards as a result of exploration and production is not generally
available to Goldcorp or to other companies in the mining industry on acceptable terms. Goldcorp
might also become subject to liability for pollution or other hazards which may not be insured
against or which Goldcorp may elect not to insure against because of premium costs or other
reasons. Losses from these events may cause Goldcorp to incur significant costs that could have a
material adverse effect upon its financial performance and results of operations.
Acquisition Strategy
As part of Goldcorp’s business strategy, it has sought and will continue to seek new mining
and development opportunities in the mining industry. In pursuit of such opportunities, Goldcorp
may fail to select appropriate acquisition candidates or negotiate acceptable arrangements,
including arrangements to finance acquisitions or integrate the acquired businesses and their
personnel into Goldcorp. Goldcorp cannot assure that it can complete any acquisition or business
arrangement that it pursues, or is pursuing, on favourable terms, or that any acquisitions or
business arrangements completed will ultimately benefit Goldcorp’s business.
Joint Ventures
Goldcorp holds an indirect 37.5% interest in the Alumbrera Mine, the other 12.5% and 50%
interests being held indirectly by Northern Orion, and Xstrata, respectively. Goldcorp holds an
indirect 51% interest in the Porcupine Mine, an indirect 68% interest in the Musselwhite Mine and
an indirect 50% interest in the La Coipa Mine, the remaining interest in each of these mines being
held by Kinross Gold Corporation. Goldcorp holds an indirect 40% interest in the Pueblo Viejo
Project, an indirect 66 2/3% interest in the Marigold Mine and an indirect 40% interest in the
South Arturo Project, the remaining interest in each of these properties being held by Barrick.
Goldcorp’s interest in these properties is subject to the risks normally associated with the
conduct of joint ventures. The existence or occurrence of one or more of the following
circumstances and events could have a material adverse impact on Goldcorp’s profitability or the
viability of its interests held through joint ventures, which could have a material adverse impact
on Goldcorp’s future cash flows, earnings, results of operations and financial condition: (i)
disagreement with joint venture partners on how to develop and operate mines efficiently; (ii)
inability of joint venture partners to meet their obligations to the joint venture or third
parties; and (iii) litigation between joint venture partners regarding joint venture matters.
Market Price of the Corporation’s Securities
The Common Shares and the common share purchase warrants of the Corporation (the “Warrants”)
are listed on the TSX and the NYSE. Securities of mining companies have experienced substantial
volatility in the past, often based on factors unrelated to the financial performance or prospects
of the companies involved. These factors include macroeconomic developments in North America and
globally and market perceptions of the attractiveness of particular industries. The price of the
Common Shares and the Warrants are also likely to be significantly
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affected by short-term changes in gold, silver or copper prices or in its financial condition
or results of operations as reflected in its quarterly earnings reports.
As a result of any of these factors, the market price of the Common Shares and the Warrants at
any given point in time may not accurately reflect Goldcorp’s long-term value. Securities class
action litigation often has been brought against companies following periods of volatility in the
market price of their securities. Goldcorp may in the future be the target of similar litigation.
Securities litigation could result in substantial costs and damages and divert management’s
attention and resources.
Future Sales of Common Shares by Existing Shareholders
Sales of a large number of Common Shares in the public markets, or the potential for such
sales, could decrease the trading price of the Common Shares and could impair Goldcorp’s ability to
raise capital through future sales of Common Shares. Goldcorp has previously completed private
placements at prices per share which are lower than the current market price of the Common Shares.
Accordingly, a significant number of shareholders of Goldcorp have an investment profit in the
Common Shares that they may seek to liquidate. Substantially all of the Common Shares can be
resold without material restriction either in the United States, in Canada or both.
Key Executives
Goldcorp is dependent on the services of key executives, including its President and Chief
Executive Officer and a small number of highly skilled and experienced executives and personnel.
The loss of these persons or Goldcorp’s inability to attract and retain additional highly skilled
employees may adversely affect its business and future operations.
Conflicts of Interest
Certain of the directors and officers of Goldcorp also serve as directors and/or officers of
other companies involved in natural resource exploration and development and consequently there
exists the possibility for such directors and officers to be in a position of conflict. In
particular, Lawrence Bell and Douglas Holtby, directors of the Corporation, are also directors of
Silver Wheaton. Any decision made by any of such directors and officers involving Goldcorp will be
made in accordance with their duties and obligations to deal fairly and in good faith with a view
to the best interests of Goldcorp and its shareholders. In addition, each of the directors is
required to declare and refrain from voting on any matter in which such directors may have a
conflict of interest in accordance with the procedures set forth in the Business Corporations Act
(Ontario) and other applicable laws.
Technical Information
CIM Standards Definitions
The estimated mineral reserves and mineral resources for the Red Lake Gold Mines, the
Peñasquito Project, the San Dimas Mine, the Nukay Mine, the Los Filos Project, the Marlin Mine, the
Pueblo Viejo Project, the El Sauzal Mine, the Porcupine Mine, the Musselwhite Mine, the Marigold
Mine, the La Coipa Mine, the San Martin Mine, the Wharf Mine, the Cerro Blanco Project, the El
Limón Project, the South Arturo Project, the Imperial Project and the San Nicolas Project have been
calculated in accordance with the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (
“CIM”) —
Definitions Adopted by CIM Council on
December 11, 2005 (the
“CIM Standards”) which were adopted by
the Canadian Securities Administrators’ National Instrument 43-101
Standards of Disclosure for
Mineral Projects (
“NI 43-101”). The following definitions are reproduced from the CIM Standards:
The term “Mineral Resource” means a concentration or occurrence of natural, solid, inorganic
or fossilized organic material in or on the Earth’s crust in such form and quantity and of such
grade or quality that it has reasonable prospects for economic extraction. The location, quantity,
grade, geological characteristics and continuity of a Mineral Resource are known, estimated or
interpreted from specific geological evidence and knowledge. Mineral Resources are sub-divided, in
order of increasing geological confidence, into Inferred, Indicated and Measured categories.
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The term “Inferred Mineral Resource” means that part of a Mineral Resource for which quantity
and grade or quality can be estimated on the basis of geological evidence and limited sampling and
reasonably assumed, but not verified, geological and grade continuity. The estimate is based on
limited information and sampling gathered through appropriate techniques from locations such as
outcrops, trenches, pits, workings and drill holes.
The term “Indicated Mineral Resource” means that part of a Mineral Resource for which
quantity, grade or quality, densities, shape and physical characteristics, can be estimated with a
level of confidence sufficient to allow the appropriate application of technical and economic
parameters, to support mine planning and evaluation of the economic viability of the deposit. The
estimate is based on detailed and reliable exploration and testing information gathered through
appropriate techniques from locations such as outcrops, trenches, pits, workings and drill holes
that are spaced closely enough for geological and grade continuity to be reasonably assumed.
The term “Measured Mineral Resource” means that part of a Mineral Resource for which quantity,
grade or quality, densities, shape, physical characteristics are so well established that they can
be estimated with confidence sufficient to allow the appropriate application of technical and
economic parameters, to support production planning and evaluation of the economic viability of the
deposit. The estimate is based on detailed and reliable exploration, sampling and testing
information gathered through appropriate techniques from locations such as outcrops, trenches,
pits, workings and drill holes that are spaced closely enough to confirm both geological and grade
continuity.
The term “Mineral Reserve” means the economically mineable part of a Measured or Indicated
Mineral Resource demonstrated by at least a Preliminary Feasibility Study. This study must include
adequate information on mining, processing, metallurgical, economic and other relevant factors that
demonstrate, at the time of reporting, that economic extraction can be justified. A Mineral
Reserve includes diluting materials and allowances for losses that may occur when the material is
mined.
The term “Probable Mineral Reserve” means the economically mineable part of an Indicated
Mineral Resource and, in some circumstances, a Measured Mineral Resource demonstrated by at least a
Preliminary Feasibility Study. This study must include adequate information on mining, processing,
metallurgical, economic and other relevant factors that demonstrate, at the time of reporting, that
economic extraction can be justified.
The term “Proven Mineral Reserve” means the economically mineable part of a Measured Mineral
Resource demonstrated by at least a Preliminary Feasibility Study. This study must include
adequate information on mining, processing, metallurgical, economic and other relevant factors that
demonstrate, at the time of reporting, that economic extraction is justified.
JORC Code Definitions
The estimated ore reserves and mineral resources for the Alumbrera Mine, the Peak Mine and the
Amapari Mine have been calculated in accordance with the current (1999) version of the Australasian
Code for Reporting of Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves (the “JORC Code”), the Australian
worldwide standards. The JORC Code has been accepted for current disclosure rules in Canada under
NI 43-101. The following definitions are reproduced from the JORC Code:
The term “Mineral Resource” means a concentration or occurrence of material of intrinsic
economic interest in or on the Earth’s crust in such form and quantity that there are reasonable
prospects for eventual economic extraction. The location, quantity, grade, geological
characteristics and continuity of a Mineral Resource are known, estimated or interpreted from
specific geological evidence and knowledge. Mineral Resources are sub-divided, in order of
increasing geological confidence, into Inferred, Indicated and Measured categories.
The term “Inferred Mineral Resource” means that part of a Mineral Resource for which tonnage,
grade and mineral content can be estimated with a low level of confidence. It is inferred from
geological evidence and assumed but not verified geological and/or grade continuity. It is based
on information gathered through appropriate techniques from locations such as outcrops, trenches,
pits, workings and drill holes which may be limited or of uncertain quality and reliability.
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The term “Indicated Mineral Resource” means that part of a Mineral Resource for which tonnage,
densities, shape, physical characteristics, grade and mineral content can be estimated with a
reasonable level of confidence. It is based on exploration, sampling and testing information
gathered through appropriate techniques from locations such as outcrops, trenches, pits, workings
and drill holes. The locations are too widely or inappropriately spaced to confirm geological
and/or grade continuity but are spaced closely enough for continuity to be assumed.
The term “Measured Mineral Resource” means that part of a Mineral Resource for which tonnage,
densities, shape, physical characteristics, grade and mineral content can be estimated with a high
level of confidence. It is based on detailed and reliable exploration, sampling and testing
information gathered through appropriate techniques from locations such as outcrops, trenches,
pits, workings and drill holes. The locations are spaced closely enough to confirm geological
and/or grade continuity.
The term “Ore Reserve” means the economically mineable part of a Measured or Indicated Mineral
Resource. It includes diluting materials and allowances for losses which may occur when the
material is mined. Appropriate assessments, which may include feasibility studies, have been
carried out, and include consideration of and modification by realistically assumed mining,
metallurgical, economic, marketing, legal, environmental, social and governmental factors. These
assessments demonstrate at the time of reporting that extraction could reasonably be justified. Ore
Reserves are sub-divided in order of increasing confidence into Probable Ore Reserves and Proved
Ore Reserves.
The term “Probable Ore Reserve” means the economically mineable part of an Indicated, and in
some circumstances Measured Mineral Resource. It includes diluting materials and allowances for
losses which may occur when the material is mined. Appropriate assessments, which may include
feasibility studies, have been carried out, and include consideration of and modification by
realistically assumed mining, metallurgical, economic, marketing, legal, environmental, social and
governmental factors. These assessments demonstrate at the time of reporting that extraction could
reasonably be justified.
The term “Proved Ore Reserve” means the economically mineable part of a Measured Mineral
Resource. It includes diluting materials and allowances for losses which may occur when the
material is mined. Appropriate assessments, which may include feasibility studies, have been
carried out, and include consideration of and modification by realistically assumed mining,
metallurgical, economic, marketing, legal, environmental, social and governmental factors. These
assessments demonstrate at the time of reporting that extraction could reasonably be justified.
The foregoing definitions of Ore Reserves and Mineral Resources as set forth in the JORC Code
have been reconciled to the definitions set forth in the CIM Standards. If the Ore Reserves and
Mineral Resources for the Alumbrera Mine, the Peak Mine and the Amapari Project were estimated in
accordance with the definitions in the CIM Standards, there would be no substantive difference in
such Ore Reserves and Mineral Resources.
Cautionary Note to United States Investors Concerning Estimates of Measured, Indicated and Inferred
Resources
This section uses the terms “Measured”, “Indicated” and “Inferred” Resources. United States
investors are advised that while such terms are recognized and required by Canadian regulations,
the United States Securities and Exchange Commission does not recognize them. “Inferred Mineral
Resources” have a great amount of uncertainty as to their existence, and as to their economic and
legal feasibility. It cannot be assumed that all or any part of an Inferred Mineral Resource will
ever be upgraded to a higher category. Under Canadian rules, estimates of Inferred Mineral
Resources may not form the basis of feasibility or other economic studies. United States investors
are cautioned not to assume that all or any part of Measured or Indicated Mineral Resources will
ever be converted into Mineral Reserves. United States investors are also cautioned not to assume
that all or any part of an Inferred Mineral Resource exists, or is economically or legally
mineable.
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Average Total Cash Costs
“Average total cash costs” figures are calculated in accordance with a standard developed by
The Gold Institute, which was a worldwide association of suppliers of gold and gold products and
included leading North American gold producers. The Gold Institute ceased operations in 2002, but
the standard is the accepted standard of reporting cash costs of production in North America.
Adoption of the standard is voluntary and the cost measures presented herein may not be comparable
to other similarly titled measures of other companies. Costs include mine site operating costs
such as mining, processing, administration, royalties and production taxes, but are exclusive of
amortization, reclamation, capital, development and exploration costs. These costs are then
divided by ounces sold to arrive at the total cash costs of sales. The measure, along with sales,
is considered to be a key indicator of a company’s ability to generate operating earnings and cash
flow from its mining operations. This data is furnished to provide additional information and is a
non-GAAP measure. It should not be considered in isolation as a substitute for measures of
performance prepared in accordance with GAAP and is not necessarily indicative of operating costs
presented under GAAP.
Summary of Ore Reserve/Mineral Reserve and Mineral Resource Estimates
Ore Reserve/Mineral Reserve Estimates
The following table sets forth the estimated gold, silver and copper Ore Reserves/Mineral
Reserves for the Red Lake Gold Mines, the Peñasquito Project, the Alumbrera Mine, the San Dimas
Mine, the Nukay Mine, the Los Filos Project, the Marlin Mine, the Pueblo Viejo Project, the El
Sauzal Mine, the Porcupine Mine, the Musselwhite Mine, the Peak Mine, the Marigold Mine, the
Amapari Mine, the La Coipa Mine, the San Martin Mine and the Wharf Mine as of
December 31, 2006,
except for the Alumbrera Mine which is estimated as of
June 30, 2006:
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Proved/Proven and Probable Gold, Silver and Copper Ore/Mineral Reserves (1)(19)
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|
|
|
per tonne) |
|
|
per tonne) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
of ounces) |
|
|
of ounces) |
|
|
of pounds) |
|
Red Lake Gold Mines (2) |
|
Proven |
|
|
1.16 |
|
|
|
41.48 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
1.55 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
Probable |
|
|
6.09 |
|
|
|
18.57 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
3.64 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Proven + Probable |
|
|
7.25 |
|
|
|
22.24 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
5.19 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
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|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Peñasquito Project (3) |
|
Proven |
|
|
267.92 |
|
|
|
0.60 |
|
|
|
35.4 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
5.18 |
|
|
|
305.3 |
|
|
|
— |
|
Mill |
|
Probable |
|
|
209.01 |
|
|
|
0.60 |
|
|
|
30.2 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
4.01 |
|
|
|
203.0 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Proven + Probable |
|
|
476.93 |
|
|
|
0.60 |
|
|
|
33.2 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
9.19 |
|
|
|
508.3 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
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|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Peñasquito Project (3) |
|
Proven |
|
|
68.24 |
|
|
|
0.27 |
|
|
|
24.2 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.59 |
|
|
|
53.0 |
|
|
|
— |
|
Heap Leach |
|
Probable |
|
|
18.81 |
|
|
|
0.33 |
|
|
|
22.4 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.20 |
|
|
|
13.5 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Proven + Probable |
|
|
87.06 |
|
|
|
0.28 |
|
|
|
23.8 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.79 |
|
|
|
66.5 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
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|
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|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Alumbrera Mine (4) |
|
Proved |
|
|
134.85 |
|
|
|
0.48 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.45 |
|
|
|
2.10 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
1,343 |
|
(Goldcorp’s 37.5% interest) |
|
Probable |
|
|
8.63 |
|
|
|
0.43 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.42 |
|
|
|
0.12 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
80 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Proved + Probable |
|
|
143.47 |
|
|
|
0.48 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.45 |
|
|
|
2.21 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
1,423 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
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|
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|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
San Dimas Mine (5) |
|
Proven |
|
|
1.57 |
|
|
|
6.10 |
|
|
|
410.2 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.31 |
|
|
|
20.7 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
Probable |
|
|
2.75 |
|
|
|
5.53 |
|
|
|
375.6 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.49 |
|
|
|
33.2 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Proven + Probable |
|
|
4.32 |
|
|
|
5.73 |
|
|
|
388.2 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.80 |
|
|
|
53.8 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nukay Mine (6) |
|
Proven |
|
|
1.18 |
|
|
|
7.00 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.27 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
Probable |
|
|
2.43 |
|
|
|
5.56 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.44 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Proven + Probable |
|
|
3.62 |
|
|
|
6.03 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.70 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
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|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Los Filos Project (7) |
|
Proven |
|
|
25.16 |
|
|
|
0.88 |
|
|
|
2.8 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.71 |
|
|
|
2.3 |
|
|
|
— |
|
(with Bermejal) |
|
Probable |
|
|
177.48 |
|
|
|
0.66 |
|
|
|
6.2 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
3.79 |
|
|
|
35.6 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Proven + Probable |
|
|
202.65 |
|
|
|
0.69 |
|
|
|
5.8 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
4.50 |
|
|
|
37.9 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Marlin Mine (8) |
|
Proven |
|
|
4.00 |
|
|
|
4.78 |
|
|
|
102.1 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.62 |
|
|
|
13.1 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
Probable |
|
|
12.36 |
|
|
|
3.96 |
|
|
|
90.7 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
1.57 |
|
|
|
36.0 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Proven + Probable |
|
|
16.36 |
|
|
|
4.16 |
|
|
|
93.5 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
2.19 |
|
|
|
49.2 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
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|
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|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pueblo Viejo Project (9) |
|
Proven (Gold) |
|
|
7.67 |
|
|
|
3.01 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.74 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
(Goldcorp’s 40% |
|
Proven (Silver/Copper) |
|
|
3.93 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
20.3 |
|
|
|
0.11 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
2.6 |
|
|
|
10 |
|
interest) |
|
Probable |
|
|
64.04 |
|
|
|
3.16 |
|
|
|
15.8 |
|
|
|
0.10 |
|
|
|
6.51 |
|
|
|
32.5 |
|
|
|
134 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Proven + Probable (Gold) |
|
|
71.71 |
|
|
|
3.14 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
7.25 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Proven + Probable (Silver/Copper) |
|
|
67.98 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
16.1 |
|
|
|
0.10 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
35.1 |
|
|
|
144 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
El Sauzal Mine (10) |
|
Proven |
|
|
11.24 |
|
|
|
1.90 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.69 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
Probable |
|
|
2.48 |
|
|
|
3.02 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.24 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Proven + Probable |
|
|
13.73 |
|
|
|
2.11 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.93 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Porcupine Mine (11) |
|
Proven |
|
|
13.51 |
|
|
|
1.40 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.61 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
(Goldcorp’s 51% |
|
Probable |
|
|
17.89 |
|
|
|
2.03 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
1.17 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
interest)
|
|
Proven + Probable |
|
|
31.40 |
|
|
|
1.76 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
1.78 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
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|
- 25 -
| |
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| |
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|
Grade |
|
|
Contained Metal |
|
| Deposit |
|
Category |
|
Tonnes |
|
|
Gold |
|
|
Silver |
|
|
Copper |
|
|
Gold |
|
|
Silver |
|
|
Copper |
|
| |
|
|
|
(millions) |
|
|
(grams |
|
|
(grams |
|
|
(%) |
|
|
(millions |
|
|
(millions |
|
|
(millions |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
per tonne) |
|
|
per tonne) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
of ounces) |
|
|
of ounces) |
|
|
of pounds) |
|
Musselwhite Mine (12) |
|
Proven |
|
|
2.70 |
|
|
|
5.88 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.51 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
(Goldcorp’s 68% |
|
Probable |
|
|
3.21 |
|
|
|
6.73 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.70 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Interest)
|
|
Proven + Probable |
|
|
5.91 |
|
|
|
6.34 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
1.21 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
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|
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|
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|
|
|
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|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Peak Mine (13) |
|
Proved |
|
|
0.95 |
|
|
|
6.70 |
|
|
|
5.3 |
|
|
|
0.85 |
|
|
|
0.20 |
|
|
|
0.2 |
|
|
|
18 |
|
|
|
Probable |
|
|
1.13 |
|
|
|
6.39 |
|
|
|
3.6 |
|
|
|
0.54 |
|
|
|
0.23 |
|
|
|
0.1 |
|
|
|
13 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Proved + Probable |
|
|
2.08 |
|
|
|
6.53 |
|
|
|
4.4 |
|
|
|
0.68 |
|
|
|
0.44 |
|
|
|
0.3 |
|
|
|
31 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Marigold Mine (14) |
|
Proven |
|
|
30.23 |
|
|
|
0.74 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.72 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
Probable |
|
|
31.59 |
|
|
|
0.68 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.70 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Proven + Probable |
|
|
61.82 |
|
|
|
0.71 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
1.42 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Amapari Mine (15) |
|
Proved |
|
|
0.81 |
|
|
|
2.52 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.07 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
Probable |
|
|
5.32 |
|
|
|
2.45 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.42 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Proved + Probable |
|
|
6.13 |
|
|
|
2.46 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.49 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
La Coipa Mine (16) |
|
Proven |
|
|
7.00 |
|
|
|
1.43 |
|
|
|
84.5 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.32 |
|
|
|
19.0 |
|
|
|
— |
|
(Goldcorp’s 50% Interest) |
|
Probable |
|
|
3.13 |
|
|
|
1.08 |
|
|
|
86.9 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.11 |
|
|
|
8.8 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Proven + Probable |
|
|
10.14 |
|
|
|
1.32 |
|
|
|
85.3 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.43 |
|
|
|
27.8 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
San Martin Mine (17) |
|
Proven |
|
|
2.46 |
|
|
|
0.76 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.06 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
Probable |
|
|
1.97 |
|
|
|
0.73 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.05 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Proven + Probable |
|
|
4.43 |
|
|
|
0.75 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.11 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Wharf Mine (18) |
|
Proven |
|
|
3.21 |
|
|
|
1.13 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.12 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
Probable |
|
|
0.95 |
|
|
|
0.82 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.03 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Proven + Probable |
|
|
4.16 |
|
|
|
1.06 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.15 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
Proved/Proven |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
15.36 |
|
|
|
418.6 |
|
|
|
1,380 |
|
|
|
Probable |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
24.39 |
|
|
|
362.7 |
|
|
|
227 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Proved/Proven + Probable |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
39.75 |
|
|
|
781.4 |
|
|
|
1,607 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| (1) |
|
All Mineral Reserves or Ore Reserves have been calculated in accordance with the CIM
Standards or the JORC Code. The JORC Code has been accepted for current disclosure rules in
Canada under NI 43-101. All Mineral Reserves and Ore Reserves have been reported as of
December 31, 2006, with the following exceptions: |
|
|
|
| (2) |
|
The Mineral Reserves for the Red Lake Gold Mines set out in the table above have been
estimated by Stephane Blais, P.Eng. at the Red Lake Gold Mines
who is a qualified person under NI 43-101. The Mineral Reserves are classified as proven and
probable, and are based on the CIM Standards. See “Description of the Business — Red Lake
Gold Mines, Ontario — Mineral Reserve and Mineral Resource Estimates” for further details. |
| |
| (3) |
|
The Mineral Reserves for the Peñasquito Project set out in the table above have been
estimated by James S. Voorhees, P.Eng., formerly at Glamis, who is a qualified person under NI
43-101. The Mineral Reserves are classified as proven and probable, and are based on the CIM
Standards. See “Description of the Business — Peñasquito Project, Mexico — Mineral Reserve
and Mineral Resource Estimates” for further details. |
| |
| (4) |
|
The Ore Reserves for the Alumbrera Mine set out in the table above have been estimated by
Luis Rivera, MAusIMM at MAL who is a qualified person under NI 43-101 and a competent person
under the JORC Code. The Mineral Reserves are classified as proved and probable, and are
based on the JORC Code. See “Description of the Business — Alumbrera Mine, Argentina — Ore
Reserve and Mineral Resource Estimates” for further details. |
| |
| (5) |
|
The Mineral Reserves for the San Dimas Mine set out in the table above have been estimated by
Velasquez Spring, P.Eng at Watts, Griffis and McOuat Limited (“WGM”) who is a qualified person under NI 43-101. The Mineral
Reserves are classified as proven and probable, and are based on the CIM |
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|
|
|
| |
|
Standards. See
“Description of the Business — Luismin Mines, Mexico — Mineral Reserve and Mineral Resource
Estimates” for further details. |
| |
| (6) |
|
The Mineral Reserves for the Nukay Mine set out in the table above have been estimated by
Reynaldo Rivera, MAusIMM at Luismin who is a qualified person under NI 43-101. The Mineral
Reserves are classified as proven and probable, and are based on the CIM Standards. See
“Description of the Business — Luismin Mines, Mexico — Mineral Reserve and Mineral Resource
Estimates” for further details. |
| |
| (7) |
|
The Mineral Reserves of the Los Filos Project set out in the above table have been estimated
by Michael G. Hester, FAusIMM of Independent Mining Consultants, Inc. (“IMC”) and Reynaldo
Rivera, MAusIMM at Luismin who are qualified persons under NI 43-
101. The Mineral Reserves are classified as proven and probable, and are based on the CIM
Standards. See “Description of the Business – Los Filos Project, Mexico – Mineral Reserve
and Mineral Resource Estimates” for further details. |
| |
| (8) |
|
The Mineral Reserves for the Marlin Mine set out in the table above have been estimated by
Bob H. Bryson at Goldcorp and audited by Neil B. Prenn, P.Eng. at Mine Development Associates
who is a qualified person under NI 43-101. The Mineral Reserves are classified as proven and
probable, and are based on the CIM Standards. See “Description of the Business — Marlin Mine,
Guatemala — Mineral Reserve and Mineral Resource Estimates” for further details. |
| |
| (9) |
|
The Mineral Reserves for the Pueblo Viejo Project set out in the table above have been
estimated by Rick Allan, Director, Engineering and Mining Support at Barrick, Jacques
McMullen, Vice President, Metallurgy and Process Development at Barrick and Rick Sims, Manager
Corporate Reserves at Barrick who are qualified persons under NI 43-101. The Mineral Reserves
are classified as proven and probable, and are based on the CIM Standards. See “Description
of the Business — Pueblo Viejo, Dominican Republic — Mineral Reserve and Mineral Resource
Estimates” for further details. |
| |
| (10) |
|
The Mineral Reserves for the El Sauzal Mine set out in the table above have been estimated by
Bob H. Bryson at Goldcorp and audited by Neil B. Prenn, P.Eng. at Mine Development Associates
who is a qualified person under NI 43-101. The Mineral Reserves are classified as proven and
probable, and are based on the CIM Standards. |
| |
| (11) |
|
The Mineral Reserves for the Porcupine Mine set out in the table above have been estimated by
Stephen Price, P.Geo., Alastair Still, P.Geo. and Imola Götz, P.Eng., all at the Porcupine
Mine, who are qualified persons under NI 43-101. The Mineral Reserves are classified as
proven and probable, and are based on the CIM Standards. |
| |
| (12) |
|
The Mineral Reserves for the Musselwhite Mine set out in the table above have been estimated
by Andrew Cheatle, P.Geo. and Tim Sanford, P.Eng., each at the Musselwhite Mine, who are
qualified persons under NI 43-101. The Mineral Reserves are classified as proven and
probable, and are based on the CIM Standards. |
| |
| (13) |
|
The Ore Reserves for the Peak Mine set out in the table above have been estimated by Eric
Strom, P.Eng. and Rex Berthelsen, MAusIMM, each at PGM, who are qualified persons under NI
43-101 and competent persons under the JORC Code. The Mineral Reserves are classified as
proved and probable, and are based on the JORC Code. |
| |
| (14) |
|
The Mineral Reserves for the Marigold Mine set out in the table above have been estimated by
Bob H. Bryson at Goldcorp and audited by Neil B. Prenn, P.Eng. at Mine Development Associates
who is a qualified person under NI 43-101. The Mineral Reserves are classified as proven and
probable, and are based on the CIM Standards. |
| |
| (15) |
|
The Ore Reserves for the Amapari Mine set out in the table above have been estimated by
Trevor Jones, MAIG at Mineração Pedra Branca do Amapari Ltda. who is a qualified person under
NI 43-101 and a competent person under the JORC Code. The Mineral Reserves are classified as
proved and probable, and are based on the JORC Code. |
| |
| (16) |
|
The Mineral Reserves for the La Coipa Mine set out in the table above have been estimated by
Andrés Guaringa, MAusIMM at Compañia Minera Mantos de Oro who is a qualified person under NI
43-101. The Mineral Reserves are classified as proven and probable, and are based on the CIM
Standards. |
| |
| (17) |
|
The Mineral Reserves for the San Martin Mine set out in the table above have been estimated
by Bob H. Bryson at Goldcorp and audited by Neil B. Prenn, P.Eng. at Mine Development
Associates who is a qualified person under NI 43-101. The Mineral Reserves are classified as
proven and probable, and are based on the CIM Standards. |
| |
| (18) |
|
The Mineral Reserves for the Wharf Mine set out in the table above have been estimated by
Michael Kociumbas, P.Geo. and G. Ross MacFarlane, P.Eng., each at Watts, Griffis and McOuat
Limited (“WGM”), who are qualified persons under NI 43-101. The Mineral Reserves are
classified as proven and probable, and are based on the CIM Standards. |
| |
| (19) |
|
Numbers may not add up due to rounding. |
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The following table sets forth the estimated lead and zinc Ore Reserves/Mineral Reserves
for the Peñasquito Project, the Pueblo Viejo Project and the Peak Mine as of
December 31, 2006:
Proved/Proven and Probable Lead and Zinc Mineral Reserves (1)(5)
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Grade |
|
|
Contained Metal |
|
| Deposit |
|
Category |
|
Tonnes |
|
|
Lead |
|
|
Zinc |
|
|
Lead |
|
|
Zinc |
|
| |
|
|
|
(millions) |
|
|
(%) |
|
|
(%) |
|
|
(millions of |
|
|
(millions of |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
pounds) |
|
|
pounds) |
|
Peñasquito Project (2) |
|
Proven |
|
|
267.92 |
|
|
|
0.38 |
|
|
|
0.81 |
|
|
|
2,267 |
|
|
|
4,758 |
|
Mill |
|
Probable |
|
|
209.01 |
|
|
|
0.31 |
|
|
|
0.70 |
|
|
|
1,416 |
|
|
|
3,224 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Proven + Probable |
|
|
476.93 |
|
|
|
0.35 |
|
|
|
0.76 |
|
|
|
3,683 |
|
|
|
7,982 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Peak Mine (3) |
|
Proved |
|
|
0.95 |
|
|
|
0.10 |
|
|
|
0.08 |
|
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
Probable |
|
|
1.13 |
|
|
|
0.18 |
|
|
|
0.22 |
|
|
|
5 |
|
|
|
5 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Proved + Probable |
|
|
2.08 |
|
|
|
0.14 |
|
|
|
0.16 |
|
|
|
7 |
|
|
|
7 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pueblo Viejo Project (4) |
|
Proven |
|
|
7.67 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.86 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
146 |
|
(Goldcorp’s 40% interest) |
|
Probable |
|
|
64.04 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.68 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
961 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Proven + Probable |
|
|
71.71 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.70 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
1,108 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
Proved/Proven |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,269 |
|
|
|
4,906 |
|
|
|
Probable |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,420 |
|
|
|
4,191 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Proved/Proven + Probable |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3,690 |
|
|
|
9,097 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| (1) |
|
All Mineral Reserves or Ore Reserves have been calculated in accordance with the CIM
Standards or the JORC Code. The JORC Code has been accepted for current disclosure rules in
Canada under NI 43-101. All Mineral Reserves and Ore Reserves have been reported as of
December 31, 2006, with the following exceptions: |
|
|
|
| (2) |
|
The Mineral Reserves for the Peñasquito Project set out in the table above have been
estimated by James S. Voorhees, P.Eng., formerly at Glamis, who is a qualified person under NI
43-101. The Mineral Reserves are classified as proven and probable, and are based on the CIM
Standards. See “Description of the Business — Peñasquito Project, Mexico — Mineral Reserve
and Mineral Resource Estimates” for further details. |
| |
| (3) |
|
The Ore Reserves for the Peak Mine set out in the table above have been estimated by Eric
Strom, P.Eng. and Rex Berthelsen, MAusIMM, each at PGM, who are qualified persons under NI
43-101 and competent persons under the JORC Code. The Mineral Reserves are classified as
proved and probable, and are based on the JORC Code. |
| |
| (4) |
|
The Mineral Reserves for the Pueblo Viejo Project set out in the table above have been
estimated by Rick Allan, Director, Engineering and Mining Support at Barrick, Jacques
McMullen, Vice President, Metallurgy and Process Development at Barrick and Rick Sims, Manager
Corporate Reserves at Barrick who are qualified persons under NI 43-101. The Mineral Reserves
are classified as proven and probable, and are based on the CIM Standards. See “Description
of the Business — Pueblo Viejo, Dominican Republic — Mineral Reserve and Mineral Resource
Estimates” for further details. |
| |
| (5) |
|
Numbers may not add up due to rounding. |
Mineral Resource Estimates
Cautionary Note to United States Investors Concerning Estimates of Measured, Indicated and Inferred
Resources
This section uses the terms “Measured”, “Indicated” and “Inferred” Resources. United States
investors are advised that while such terms are recognized and required by Canadian regulations,
the United States Securities and Exchange Commission does not recognize them. “Inferred Mineral
Resources” have a great amount of uncertainty as to their existence, and as to their economic and
legal feasibility. It cannot be assumed that all or any part of an Inferred Mineral Resource will
ever be upgraded to a higher category. Under Canadian rules, estimates of Inferred Mineral
Resources may not form the basis of feasibility or other economic studies. United States investors
are cautioned not to assume that all or any part of Measured or Indicated Mineral Resources will
ever be converted into Mineral Reserves. United States investors are also cautioned not to assume
that all or any part of an Inferred Mineral Resource exists, or is economically or legally
mineable.
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The following table sets forth the estimated gold, silver and copper Mineral Resources for the
Red Lake Gold Mines, the Peñasquito Project, the Alumbrera Mine, the San Dimas Mine, the Nukay
Mine, the Los Filos Project, the Marlin Mine, the Pueblo Viejo Project, the El Sauzal Mine, the
Porcupine Mine, the Musselwhite Mine, the Peak Mine, the Marigold Mine, the Amapari Mine, the La
Coipa Mine, the San Martin Mine, the Cerro Blanco Project, the El Limón Project, the South Arturo
Project, the Imperial Project and the San Nicolas Project as of
December 31, 2006, except for the
Alumbrera Mine which is reported as of
June 30, 2006:
Measured, Indicated and Inferred Gold, Silver and Copper Mineral Resources (1)(23)(24)
(excluding Proved/Proven and Probable Mineral Reserves)
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|
Grade |
|
|
Contained Metal |
|
| Deposit |
|
Category |
|
Tonnes |
|
|
Gold |
|
|
Silver |
|
|
Copper |
|
|
Gold |
|
|
Silver |
|
|
Copper |
|
| |
|
|
|
(millions) |
|
|
(grams |
|
|
(grams |
|
|
(%) |
|
|
(millions |
|
|
(millions |
|
|
(millions |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
per tonne) |
|
|
|
per tonne) |
|
|
|
|
|
of ounces) |
|
|
of ounces) |
|
|
of pounds) |
|
Red Lake Gold Mines (2) |
|
Measured |
|
|
0.69 |
|
|
|
23.29 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.51 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
Indicated |
|
|
2.51 |
|
|
|
16.14 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
1.30 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
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|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Measured + Indicated |
|
|
3.19 |
|
|
|
17.68 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
1.81 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inferred |
|
|
2.94 |
|
|
|
26.34 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
2.49 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
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|
|
|
|
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|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Peñasquito Project (3) |
|
Measured |
|
|
114.30 |
|
|
|
0.32 |
|
|
|
26.4 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
1.18 |
|
|
|
96.9 |
|
|
|
— |
|
Mill |
|
Indicated |
|
|
156.90 |
|
|
|
0.29 |
|
|
|
26.0 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
1.45 |
|
|
|
131.2 |
|
|
|
— |
|
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|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
Measured + Indicated |
|
|
271.20 |
|
|
|
0.30 |
|
|
|
26.2 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
2.62 |
|
|
|
228.1 |
|
|
|
— |
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inferred |
|
|
2,404.60 |
|
|
|
0.18 |
|
|
|
11.0 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
13.76 |
|
|
|
849.3 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Peñasquito Project (3) |
|
Measured |
|
|
16.10 |
|
|
|
0.13 |
|
|
|
13.6 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.07 |
|
|
|
7.1 |
|
|
|
— |
|
Heap Leach |
|
Indicated |
|
|
21.10 |
|
|
|
0.14 |
|
|
|
17.4 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.10 |
|
|
|
11.8 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Measured + Indicated |
|
|
37.20 |
|
|
|
0.13 |
|
|
|
15.8 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.16 |
|
|
|
18.9 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inferred |
|
|
172.0 |
|
|
|
0.07 |
|
|
|
5.8 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.39 |
|
|
|
31.8 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Alumbrera Mine (4) |
|
Measured |
|
|
7.50 |
|
|
|
0.36 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.37 |
|
|
|
0.09 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
61 |
|
(Goldcorp’s 37.5% |
|
Indicated |
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
interest) |
|
Measured + Indicated |
|
|
7.50 |
|
|
|
0.36 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.37 |
|
|
|
0.09 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
61 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inferred |
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
San Dimas Mine (5) |
|
Measured |
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
Indicated |
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Measured + Indicated |
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inferred |
|
|
17.27 |
|
|
|
3.17 |
|
|
|
320.8 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
1.76 |
|
|
|
178.1 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nukay Mine (6) |
|
Measured |
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
Indicated |
|
|
0.26 |
|
|
|
5.78 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.05 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Measured + Indicated |
|
|
0.26 |
|
|
|
5.78 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.05 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inferred |
|
|
4.09 |
|
|
|
5.61 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.74 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Los Filos Project (7) |
|
Measured |
|
|
10.19 |
|
|
|
0.70 |
|
|
|
4.0 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.23 |
|
|
|
1.3 |
|
|
|
— |
|
(with Bermejal, |
|
Indicated |
|
|
79.61 |
|
|
|
0.61 |
|
|
|
5.1 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
1.55 |
|
|
|
13.0 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Bermejal U/G and |
|
Measured + Indicated |
|
|
89.80 |
|
|
|
0.62 |
|
|
|
5.0 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
1.78 |
|
|
|
14.3 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4P) |
|
Inferred |
|
|
71.49 |
|
|
|
0.62 |
|
|
|
5.4 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
1.42 |
|
|
|
12.4 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Marlin Mine (8) |
|
Measured |
|
|
0.64 |
|
|
|
0.85 |
|
|
|
16.7 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.02 |
|
|
|
0.3 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
Indicated |
|
|
2.72 |
|
|
|
2.27 |
|
|
|
84.4 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.20 |
|
|
|
7.4 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Measured + Indicated |
|
|
3.36 |
|
|
|
2.00 |
|
|
|
71.5 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.22 |
|
|
|
7.7 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inferred |
|
|
20.09 |
|
|
|
1.56 |
|
|
|
27.5 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
1.01 |
|
|
|
17.8 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pueblo Viejo Project (9) |
|
Measured |
|
|
0.30 |
|
|
|
2.90 |
|
|
|
12.7 |
|
|
|
0.05 |
|
|
|
0.03 |
|
|
|
0.1 |
|
|
|
1 |
|
(Goldcorp’s 40% |
|
Indicated |
|
|
9.57 |
|
|
|
2.68 |
|
|
|
9.5 |
|
|
|
0.05 |
|
|
|
0.82 |
|
|
|
2.9 |
|
|
|
11 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
interest) |
|
Measured + Indicated |
|
|
9.87 |
|
|
|
2.69 |
|
|
|
9.6 |
|
|
|
0.05 |
|
|
|
0.85 |
|
|
|
3.0 |
|
|
|
12 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inferred |
|
|
19.67 |
|
|
|
2.82 |
|
|
|
4.2 |
|
|
|
0.03 |
|
|
|
1.78 |
|
|
|
2.7 |
|
|
|
13 |
|
- 29 -
| |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Grade |
|
|
Contained Metal |
|
| Deposit |
|
Category |
|
Tonnes |
|
|
Gold |
|
|
Silver |
|
|
Copper |
|
|
Gold |
|
|
Silver |
|
|
Copper |
|
| |
|
|
|
(000s) |
|
|
(grams |
|
|
(grams |
|
|
(%) |
|
|
(millions |
|
|
(millions |
|
|
(millions |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
per tonne) |
|
|
|
per tonne) |
|
|
|
|
|
of ounces) |
|
|
of ounces) |
|
|
of pounds) |
|
El Sauzal Mine (10) |
|
Measured |
|
|
4.97 |
|
|
|
0.69 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.11 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
Indicated |
|
|
1.38 |
|
|
|
0.76 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.03 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Measured + Indicated |
|
|
6.35 |
|
|
|
0.70 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.14 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inferred |
|
|
60.35 |
|
|
|
0.26 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.50 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Porcupine Mine (11) |
|
Measured |
|
|
3.56 |
|
|
|
2.02 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.23 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
(Goldcorp’s 51% |
|
Indicated |
|
|
36.21 |
|
|
|
1.72 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
2.00 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
interest) |
|
Measured + Indicated |
|
|
39.78 |
|
|
|
1.75 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
2.24 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inferred |
|
|
26.10 |
|
|
|
1.89 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
1.59 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Musselwhite Mine (12) |
|
Measured |
|
|
0.86 |
|
|
|
5.42 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.15 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
(Goldcorp’s 68% |
|
Indicated |
|
|
1.42 |
|
|
|
5.64 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.26 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
interest) |
|
Measured + Indicated |
|
|
2.28 |
|
|
|
5.56 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.41 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inferred |
|
|
2.35 |
|
|
|
6.89 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.52 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Peak Mine (13) |
|
Measured |
|
|
1.24 |
|
|
|
3.86 |
|
|
|
6.1 |
|
|
|
0.99 |
|
|
|
0.15 |
|
|
|
0.2 |
|
|
|
27 |
|
|
|
Indicated |
|
|
2.11 |
|
|
|
4.03 |
|
|
|
7.1 |
|
|
|
1.28 |
|
|
|
0.27 |
|
|
|
0.5 |
|
|
|
60 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Measured + Indicated |
|
|
3.35 |
|
|
|
3.96 |
|
|
|
6.7 |
|
|
|
1.17 |
|
|
|
0.43 |
|
|
|
0.7 |
|
|
|
87 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inferred |
|
|
1.99 |
|
|
|
6.50 |
|
|
|
5.0 |
|
|
|
0.53 |
|
|
|
0.42 |
|
|
|
0.3 |
|
|
|
23 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Marigold Mine (14) |
|
Measured |
|
|
12.7 |
|
|
|
0.67 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.27 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
Indicated |
|
|
18.24 |
|
|
|
0.71 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.42 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Measured + Indicated |
|
|
30.94 |
|
|
|
0.70 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.69 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inferred |
|
|
122.53 |
|
|
|
0.43 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
1.68 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Amapari Mine (15) |
|
Measured |
|
|
0.29 |
|
|
|
2.31 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.02 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
Indicated |
|
|
6.70 |
|
|
|
3.01 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.65 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Measured + Indicated |
|
|
6.98 |
|
|
|
2.98 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.67 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inferred |
|
|
1.92 |
|
|
|
2.47 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.15 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
La Coipa Mine (16) |
|
Measured |
|
|
7.23 |
|
|
|
0.87 |
|
|
|
31.5 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.20 |
|
|
|
7.3 |
|
|
|
— |
|
(Goldcorp’s 50% |
|
Indicated |
|
|
4.23 |
|
|
|
1.19 |
|
|
|
25.7 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.16 |
|
|
|
3.5 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
interest) |
|
Measured + Indicated |
|
|
11.47 |
|
|
|
0.99 |
|
|
|
29.3 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.36 |
|
|
|
10.8 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inferred |
|
|
0.42 |
|
|
|
0.79 |
|
|
|
35.6 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.01 |
|
|
|
0.5 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
San Martin Mine (17) |
|
Measured |
|
|
3.60 |
|
|
|
0.79 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.09 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
Indicated |
|
|
2.87 |
|
|
|
0.76 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.07 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Measured + Indicated |
|
|
6.47 |
|
|
|
0.78 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.16 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inferred |
|
|
10.82 |
|
|
|
0.26 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.09 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cerro Blanco Project
(18) |
|
Measured |
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
Indicated |
|
|
2.52 |
|
|
|
15.64 |
|
|
|
72.0 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
1.27 |
|
|
|
5.8 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Measured + Indicated |
|
|
2.52 |
|
|
|
15.64 |
|
|
|
72.0 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
1.27 |
|
|
|
5.8 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inferred |
|
|
1.35 |
|
|
|
15.31 |
|
|
|
59.6 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.67 |
|
|
|
2.6 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
El Limón Project (19) |
|
Measured |
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
(Goldcorp’s 21.2% |
|
Indicated |
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
interest) |
|
Measured + Indicated |
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inferred |
|
|
6.50 |
|
|
|
3.27 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.68 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
South Arturo Project
(20) |
|
Measured |
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
(Goldcorp’s 40% |
|
Indicated |
|
|
7.21 |
|
|
|
2.11 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.49 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
interest) |
|
Measured + Indicated |
|
|
7.21 |
|
|
|
2.11 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.49 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inferred |
|
|
0.40 |
|
|
|
2.07 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.03 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Imperial Project (21) |
|
Measured |
|
|
67.88 |
|
|
|
0.59 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
1.29 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
Indicated |
|
|
14.88 |
|
|
|
0.51 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.24 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Measured + Indicated |
|
|
82.76 |
|
|
|
0.58 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
1.53 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inferred |
|
|
43.83 |
|
|
|
0.40 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.56 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
- 30 -
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Grade |
|
|
Contained Metal |
|
| Deposit |
|
Category |
|
Tonnes |
|
|
Gold |
|
|
Silver |
|
|
Copper |
|
|
Gold |
|
|
Silver |
|
|
Copper |
|
| |
|
|
|
(000s) |
|
|
(grams |
|
|
(grams |
|
|
(%) |
|
|
(millions |
|
|
(millions |
|
|
(millions |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
per tonne) |
|
|
|
per tonne) |
|
|
|
|
|
of ounces) |
|
|
of ounces) |
|
|
of pounds) |
|
San Nicolas Project (22) |
|
Measured |
|
|
0.66 |
|
|
|
0.96 |
|
|
|
46.5 |
|
|
|
0.73 |
|
|
|
0.02 |
|
|
|
1.0 |
|
|
|
11 |
|
(Goldcorp’s 35% |
|
Indicated |
|
|
27.33 |
|
|
|
0.47 |
|
|
|
28.6 |
|
|
|
1.34 |
|
|
|
0.41 |
|
|
|
25.1 |
|
|
|
809 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
interest) |
|
Measured + Indicated |
|
|
27.99 |
|
|
|
0.48 |
|
|
|
29.0 |
|
|
|
1.33 |
|
|
|
0.43 |
|
|
|
26.1 |
|
|
|
819 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inferred |
|
|
2.46 |
|
|
|
0.37 |
|
|
|
23.8 |
|
|
|
1.28 |
|
|
|
0.03 |
|
|
|
1.9 |
|
|
|
69 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
Measured |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4.66 |
|
|
|
114.3 |
|
|
|
99 |
|
|
|
Indicated |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
11.76 |
|
|
|
201.2 |
|
|
|
893 |
|
|
|
Measured + Indicated |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
16.42 |
|
|
|
315.4 |
|
|
|
992 |
|
|
|
Inferred |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
30.28 |
|
|
|
1,097.4 |
|
|
|
106 |
|
|
|
|
| (1) |
|
All Mineral Resources have been calculated in accordance with the CIM Standards or the JORC
Code. The JORC Code has been accepted for current disclosure rules in Canada under NI 43-101.
All Mineral Resources have been reported as of December 31, 2006, with the following
exceptions: |
|
|
|
| (2) |
|
The Mineral Resources for the Red Lake Gold Mines set out in the table above have been
estimated by Anthony Stechishen, P.Geo. for the Campbell Complex and
Dean Crick, M.Sc., P.Geo. for the Red Lake Complex, each at the Red Lake Gold
Mines, who are qualified persons under NI 43-101. The Mineral Resources are classified as
measured, indicated and inferred, and are based on the CIM Standards. See “Description of the
Business — Red Lake Gold Mines, Ontario — Mineral Reserve and Mineral Resource Estimates” for
further details. |
| |
| (3) |
|
The Mineral Resources for the Peñasquito Project set out in the table above have been
estimated by James S. Voorhees, P.Eng., formerly at Glamis, who is a qualified person under NI
43-101. The Mineral Resources are classified as measured, indicated and inferred, and are
based on the CIM Standards. See “Description of the Business — Peñasquito Project, Mexico —
Mineral Reserve and Mineral Resource Estimates” for further details. |
| |
| (4) |
|
The Mineral Resources for the Alumbrera Mine set out in the table above have been estimated
by Luis Rivera, MAusIMM at MAL who is a qualified person under NI 43-101 and a competent
person under the JORC Code. The Mineral Resources are classified as measured and indicated,
and are based on the JORC Code. See “Description of the Business — Alumbrera Mine, Argentina
— Ore Reserve and Mineral Resource Estimates” for further details. |
| |
| (5) |
|
The Mineral Resources for the San Dimas Mine set out in the table above have been estimated
by Velasquez Spring, P.Eng at WGM who is a qualified person under NI 43-101. The Mineral
Resources are classified as inferred, and are based on the CIM Standards. See “Description of
the Business — Luismin Mines, Mexico — Mineral Reserve and Mineral Resource Estimates” for
further details. |
| |
| (6) |
|
The Mineral Resources for the Nukay Mine set out in the table above have been estimated by
Reynaldo Rivera, MAusIMM at Luismin who is a qualified person under NI 43-101. The Mineral
Resources are classified as measured, indicated and inferred, and are based on the CIM
Standards. See “Description of the Business — Luismin Mines, Mexico — Mineral Reserve and
Mineral Resource Estimates” for further details. |
| |
| (7) |
|
The Mineral Resources for the Los Filos Project set out in the table above have been
estimated by Michael G. Hester, FAusIMM at IMC and Reynaldo Rivera, MAusIMM at Luismin who are
qualified persons under NI 43-101. The Mineral Resources are classified as measured,
indicated and inferred, and are based on the CIM Standards. See “Description of the Business
— Los Filos Project, Mexico — Mineral Reserve and Mineral Resource Estimates” for further
details. |
| |
| (8) |
|
The Mineral Resources for the Marlin Mine set out in the table above have been estimated by
Bob H. Bryson at Goldcorp and audited by Neil B. Prenn, P.Eng. at Mine Development Associates
who is a qualified person under NI 43-101. The Mineral Resources are classified as measured,
indicated and inferred, and are based on the CIM Standards. See “Description of the Business
— Marlin Mine, Guatemala — Mineral Reserve and Mineral Resource Estimates” for further
details. |
| |
| (9) |
|
The Mineral Resources for the Pueblo Viejo Project set out in the table above have been
estimated by Rick Allan, Director, Engineering and Mining Support at Barrick, Jacques
McMullen, Vice President, Metallurgy and Process Development at Barrick and Rick Sims, Manager
Corporate Reserves at Barrick who are qualified persons under NI 43-101. The Mineral
Resources are classified as measured, indicated and inferred, and are based on the CIM
Standards. See “Description of the Business — Pueblo Viejo Project, Dominican Republic —
Mineral Reserve and Mineral Resource Estimates” for further details. |
| |
| (10) |
|
The Mineral Resources for the El Sauzal Mine set out in the table above have been estimated
by Bob H. Bryson at Goldcorp and audited by Neil B. Prenn, P.Eng. at Mine Development
Associates who is a qualified person under NI 43-101. The Mineral Resources are classified as
measured, indicated and inferred, and are based on the CIM Standards. |
| |
| (11) |
|
The Mineral Resources for the Porcupine Mine set out in the table above have been estimated
by Stephen Price, P.Geo., Alastair Still, P.Geo. and Imola Götz, P.Eng., all at the Porcupine
Mine, who are qualified persons under NI 43-101. The Mineral Resources are classified as
measured, indicated and inferred, and are based on the CIM Standards. |
| |
| (12) |
|
The Mineral Resources for the Musselwhite Mine set out in the table above have been estimated
by Andrew Cheatle, P.Geo. and Tim Sanford, P.Eng., each at the Musselwhite Mine, who are
qualified persons under NI 43-101. The Mineral Resources are classified as measured,
indicated and inferred, and are based on the CIM Standards. |
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|
|
|
| (13) |
|
The Mineral Resources for the Peak Mine set out in the table above have been estimated by
Eric Strom, P.Eng. and Rex Berthelsen, MAusIMM, each at PGM, who are qualified persons under
NI 43-101 and competent persons under the JORC Code. The Mineral Resources are classified as
measured, indicated and inferred, and are based on the JORC Code. |
| |
| (14) |
|
The Mineral Resources for the Marigold Mine set out in the table above have been estimated by
Bob H. Bryson at Goldcorp and audited by Neil B. Prenn, P.Eng. at Mine Development Associates
who is a qualified person under NI 43-101. The Mineral Resources are classified as measured,
indicated and inferred, and are based on the CIM Standards. |
| |
| (15) |
|
The Mineral Resources for the Amapari Mine set out in the table above have been estimated by
Trevor Jones, MAIG at Mineração Pedra Branca do Amapari Ltda. who is a qualified person under
NI 43-101 and a competent person under the JORC Code. The Mineral Resources are classified as
measured, indicated and inferred, and are based on the JORC Code. |
| |
| (16) |
|
The Mineral Resources for the La Coipa Mine set out in the table above have been estimated by
Andrés Guaringa at Compañia Minera Mantos de Oro who is a qualified person under NI 43-101.
The Mineral Resources are classified as measured, indicated and inferred, and are based on the
CIM Standards. |
| |
| (17) |
|
The Mineral Resources for the San Martin Mine set out in the table above have been estimated
by Bob H. Bryson at Goldcorp and audited by Neil B. Prenn, P.Eng. at Mine Development
Associates who is a qualified person under NI 43-101. The Mineral Resources are classified as
measured, indicated and inferred, and are based on the CIM Standards. |
| |
| (18) |
|
The Mineral Resources for the Cerro Blanco Project set out in the table above have been
estimated by James S. Voorhees, P.Eng., formerly at Glamis, who is a qualified person under NI
43-101. The Mineral Resources are classified as indicated and inferred, and are based on the
CIM Standards. |
| |
| (19) |
|
The Mineral Resources for the El Limón Project set out in the table above have been estimated
by James N. Gray, P.Geo. and Al N. Samis, P.Geo., both at Teck Cominco Ltd., who are qualified
persons under NI 43-101. The Mineral Resources are classified as inferred, and are based on
the CIM Standards. |
| |
| (20) |
|
The Mineral Resources for the South Arturo Project set out in the table above have been
estimated by Rick Sims, Manager Corporate Reserves at who is a qualified person under NI
43-101. The Mineral Resources are classified as indicated and inferred, and are based on the
CIM Standards. |
| |
| (21) |
|
The Mineral Resources for the Imperial Project set out in the table above have been estimated
by James S. Voorhees, P.Eng., formerly at Glamis, who is a qualified person under NI 43-101.
The Mineral Resources are classified as measured, indicated and inferred, and are based on the
CIM Standards. |
| |
| (22) |
|
The Mineral Resources for the San Nicolas Project set out in the table above have been
estimated by Paul Bankes, P.Geo. at Teck who is a qualified person under NI 43-101. The
Mineral Resources are classified as measured, indicated and inferred, and are based on the CIM
Standards. |
| |
| (23) |
|
Mineral Resources are not known with the same degree of certainty as Mineral Reserves and do
not have demonstrated economic viability. |
| |
| (24) |
|
Numbers may not add up due to rounding. |
The following table sets forth the estimated lead and zinc Mineral Resources for the
Peñasquito Project, the Pueblo Viejo Project and the Peak Mine as of
December 31, 2006:
Measured, Indicated and Inferred Lead and Zinc Mineral Resources (1)(6)
(excluding Proved/Proven and Probable Mineral Reserves)
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Grade |
|
|
Contained Metal |
|
| Deposit |
|
Category |
|
Tonnes |
|
|
Lead |
|
|
Zinc |
|
|
Lead |
|
|
Zinc |
|
| |
|
|
|
(millions) |
|
|
(%) |
|
|
(%) |
|
|
(millions of |
|
|
(millions of |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
pounds) |
|
|
pounds) |
|
Peñasquito Project (2) |
|
Measured |
|
|
114.30 |
|
|
|
0.25 |
|
|
|
0.67 |
|
|
|
632 |
|
|
|
1,676 |
|
Mill |
|
Indicated |
|
|
156.90 |
|
|
|
0.29 |
|
|
|
0.62 |
|
|
|
990 |
|
|
|
2,129 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Measured + Indicated |
|
|
271.20 |
|
|
|
0.27 |
|
|
|
0.64 |
|
|
|
1,622 |
|
|
|
3,805 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inferred |
|
|
2,404.60 |
|
|
|
0.10 |
|
|
|
0.29 |
|
|
|
5,389 |
|
|
|
15,638 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Peak Mine (3) |
|
Measured |
|
|
1.24 |
|
|
|
0.15 |
|
|
|
0.18 |
|
|
|
4 |
|
|
|
5 |
|
|
|
Indicated |
|
|
2.11 |
|
|
|
0.14 |
|
|
|
0.24 |
|
|
|
7 |
|
|
|
11 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Measured + Indicated |
|
|
3.35 |
|
|
|
0.14 |
|
|
|
0.22 |
|
|
|
11 |
|
|
|
16 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inferred |
|
|
1.99 |
|
|
|
0.07 |
|
|
|
0.08 |
|
|
|
3 |
|
|
|
4 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pueblo Viejo Project (4) |
|
Measured |
|
|
0.30 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.21 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
1 |
|
(Goldcorp’s 40% |
|
Indicated |
|
|
9.57 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.15 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
31 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
interest) |
|
Measured + Indicated |
|
|
9.87 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.15 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
32 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inferred |
|
|
19.67 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.02 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
10 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
San Nicolas Project (5) |
|
Measured |
|
|
0.66 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
3.60 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
52 |
|
|
|
Indicated |
|
|
27.33 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
1.80 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
1,085 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Measured + Indicated |
|
|
27.99 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
1.84 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
1,137 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inferred |
|
|
2.46 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
1.43 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
78 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
Measured |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
636 |
|
|
|
1,735 |
|
|
|
Indicated |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
997 |
|
|
|
3,256 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Measured + Indicated |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,633 |
|
|
|
4,990 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inferred |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
5,392 |
|
|
|
15,729 |
|
- 32 -
|
|
|
| (1) |
|
All Mineral Resources have been calculated in accordance with the CIM Standards or the JORC
Code. The JORC Code has been accepted for current disclosure rules in Canada under NI 43-101.
All Mineral Resources have been reported as of December 31, 2006, with the following
exceptions: |
|
|
|
| (2) |
|
The Mineral Resources for the Peñasquito Project set out in the table above have been
estimated by James S. Voorhees, P.Eng., formerly at Glamis, who is a qualified person under NI
43-101. The Mineral Resources are classified as measured, indicated and inferred, and are
based on the CIM Standards. See “Description of the Business — Peñasquito Project, Mexico —
Mineral Reserve and Mineral Resource Estimates” for further details. |
| |
| (3) |
|
The Mineral Resources for the Peak Mine set out in the table above have been estimated by
Eric Strom, P.Eng. and Rex Berthelsen, MAusIMM, each at PGM, who are qualified persons under
NI 43-101 and competent persons under the JORC Code. The Mineral Resources are classified as
measured, indicated and inferred, and are based on the JORC Code. |
| |
| (4) |
|
The Mineral Resources for the Pueblo Viejo Project set out in the table above have been
estimated by Rick Allan, Director, Engineering and Mining Support at Barrick, Jacques
McMullen, Vice President, Metallurgy and Process Development at Barrick and Rick Sims, Manager
Corporate Reserves at Barrick who are qualified persons under NI 43-101. The Mineral
Resources are classified as measured, indicated and inferred, and are based on the CIM
Standards. See “Description of the Business — Pueblo Viejo, Dominican Republic — Mineral
Reserve and Mineral Resource Estimates” for further details. |
| |
| (5) |
|
The Mineral Resources for the San Nicolas Project set out in the table above have been
estimated by Paul Bankes, P.Geo. at Teck who is a qualified person under NI 43-101. The
Mineral Resources are classified as measured, indicated and inferred, and are based on the CIM
Standards. |
| |
| (6) |
|
Numbers may not add up due to rounding. |
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Red Lake Gold Mines, Canada
The Red Lake Gold Mines is comprised of the Red Lake complex (“Red Lake Complex”) and the
Campbell complex (“Campbell Complex”).
At the request of the Corporation, Dean Crick, M.Sc., P.Geo, Stephane Blais, P.Eng and Anthony
Stechishen, P.Geo. prepared a technical report dated
November 17, 2006 entitled
“The Red Lake Gold
Mines Property — Red Lake Mining Division” (the
“Red Lake Gold Mines Report”). Dean Crick,
Stephane Blais and Anthony Stechishen are each
“Qualified Persons” within the meaning of NI 43-101.
The following description of the Red Lake Gold Mines has been summarized from the Red Lake
Gold Mines Report and readers should consult the Red Lake Gold Mines Report to obtain further
particulars regarding the Red Lake Gold Mines. The Red Lake Gold Mines Report is available for
review on the SEDAR
website located at
www.sedar.com under the Corporation’s profile.
Property Description and Location
The Red Lake Gold Mines cover approximately 2,335 hectares located in the Red Lake Mining
Division within the District of Kenora in northwestern Ontario. The Red Lake Gold Mines are
located in the Canadian Shield, approximately 180 kilometres north of Dryden. Red Lake consists of
89 patented claims covering 1,254 hectares and Campbell consists of 77 patented mineral claims
covering 1,084 hectares. The Red Lake Gold Mines have been legally surveyed for all of the
patented claims.
Accessibility, Climate, Local Resources, Infrastructure and Physiography
The Red Lake area is accessible by Highway 105, which joins the Trans Canada Highway at
Vermilion Bay, 175 kilometres south and 100 kilometres east of Kenora. Commercial air services
from Thunder Bay and Winnipeg to the community are available several times a day.
The climate at the Red Lake Gold Mines is typically northern continental boreal climate with
warm summers and cold winters.
The Red Lake Gold Mines are located in northwestern Ontario, Canada. The Red Lake
municipality is comprised of five towns, Madsen and McKenzie Island, Red Lake, Cochenour and
Balmerstown, the home of Red Lake and Campbell. The Red Lake municipality has a population of
5,500. Other industries in the Red Lake municipality include logging and tourism. Local
infrastructure is well developed in the Red Lake area, with all the amenities needed for the Red
Lake Gold Mines available locally. Potable water is supplied by the municipality. Process water
is taken from Balmer Lake and Sandy Bay. Ontario Hydro supplies power. Each mine has 30 megawatts
of transformer capability but is limited to 26 megawatts by the incoming line. There are multiple
transformers throughout the sites, which step voltage down to 4,160, 2,300 and 575 volts.
Red Lake Gold Mines has topography typical of the Canadian shield with irregular hummocky
hills and discontinuous ridges created by glaciofluvial material and till. These are separated by
depressions and hollows occupied by lakes, ponds and muskeg. Much of the Red Lake region is still
untouched and is accessible only by air or canoe. The natural vegetation is predominantly black
spruce, fir, tamarack and pine. In the better drained elevated areas this changes to poplar,
birch, willow, alder and mountain ash with a variety of shrubs.
Bedrock outcrops are scattered and consist of less than 5% of the surface area. Soil in the
vicinity of Red Lake and Campbell is characterized by a 30 to 50 centimetre layer of topsoil
overlying compact sand with traces of clay, gravel, scattered cobbles and boulders. Low-lying
areas contain silty-clay sediments that were deposited in glacial lakes.
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History
Red Lake Complex
Red Lake was first staked during the Red Lake Gold Rush in 1926. In 1944, the property was
re-staked and Dickenson Red Lake Mines Limited was incorporated. Production mining began in 1948
at a rate of 125 tons per day and increased to 500 tons per day in the 1970s, with grades varying
between 0.45 and 0.61 ounces of gold per ton. In the early 1980s, the mill capacity was increased
to 1,000 tons per day and long-hole stoping was introduced which resulted in a severe drop in
production grade. Cut-and-fill mining was subsequently re-introduced and production was increased
to about 1,000 tons per day by 1993/4 with the grade ranging from 0.25 and 0.34 ounces of gold per
ton. The average recovery rate was 82%. An exploration diamond drilling program initiated in 1995
within the lower levels of the mine resulted in the discovery of a cluster of high grade gold veins
between the 30 and 39 levels of the mine (the “High Grade Zone”).
Between June 1996 and late 1999, operations were suspended due to a strike. Mine staff and
outside contractors maintained essential services and supported the exploration program on the
property. In September 1998, the feasibility of mining the High Grade Zone Mineral Reserves
through a combination of existing mine infrastructure, new development and a new processing
facility purchased from Cameco was studied. An operating plan was developed to mine the Mineral
Reserves by the mechanized cut-and-fill stop method at a rate of 6,000 tons per day or 219,000 tons
per year.
Mining from the High Grade Zone began in early 2000 and test milling in July. By year-end,
full rated production was achieved with a small stockpile of several thousand tons of crushed ore
remaining on surface. Since production restarted in 2000, the exploration to increase resources
has focused on the High Grade Zone.
Since the beginning of operations in 1948 until the end of 2005, 9.82 million tons has been
processed from Red Lake.
Campbell Complex
The first recorded prospecting in the Red Lake district was carried out by the Northwestern
Ontario Exploration Company in 1887, but gold was not discovered in the district until 1922 and the
Campbell claims were not staked until 1926. Subsequent to the gold discovery, there was a period
of claim cancellations and restaking of the area. In, 1944, George and Colin Campbell restaked the
area. In this period, Campbell Red Lake Mines was incorporated and Dome Mines purchased an option
that eventually resulted in a 57% ownership interest in
the company.
In 1946, after further exploration had been carried out, a four-compartment shaft with four
levels was sunk to a depth of 182 metres. Mill construction began in 1948 and went into operation
the following year reaching a capacity of 300 tons per day soon after the beginning of operations.
By 1953, the shaft was further deepened to 655 metres and soon after a deeper higher grade zone was
discovered at the 14th level. The next thirty years of production at Campbell remained
consistent.
A new phase of investment began following the merger between Campbell, Dome and Placer
Development to form Placer Dome Inc. (“Placer Dome”). This led to autoclaving, replacing the
roasting at the Campbell mill, a decline from levels 27 to 30, a mill flotation circuit upgrade,
construction of paste fill plant and the commissioning of the Reid Shaft in 1999, which enabled the
discovery and development of the DC Zone.
Since the beginning of operations in 1949 until the end of 2005, 19.7 million tons at a grade
of 0.58 ounces per ton has been produced at Campbell.
Geological Setting
Regional Geology
The Red Lake greenstone belt is situated in the western portion of the Uchi Subprovince, a
typical Achaean
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granite-greenstone terrain containing eastward trending belts of volcanic and sedimentary
rocks and syn-volcanic intrusives. The rocks consist of volcanic and sedimentary assemblages
representing magmatic and erosional events occurring over a period of approximately 300 million
years.
The Red Lake greenstone belt outcropping is defined by an east-northeast orientated bow tie
shaped, anticline, roughly 40 kilometres in its long dimension and 20 kilometres across. Two
perpendicular axes of mirror symmetry trend east-northeast and southwest defining the bow tie and
intersecting at the Dome Stock near Red Lake. The most prominent axis trends east-northeast
defining a broad antiform with older rocks of the Balmer Assemblage occupying the hinge flanked by
younger rocks of the Huston and Confederation assemblages on its northern and southern flanks.
Between the oldest and youngest assemblages is a regional unconformity, overlain by the Huston
conglomerate. At each end of the anticline, late-orogenic plutons stope up into the greenstone;
the Killala-Baird batholith in the west., and the Walsh Lake pluton and Cat Island pluton in the
east.
The Balmer assemblage, predominantly tholeiitc and komatiitic mafic to ultramafic extrusive
rocks, hosts the Red Lake Gold Mines and constitutes over 50% of the Red Lake greenstone belt
rocks. The sequence is disconformably overlain by a volcaniclastic/clastic sequence, the Bruce
Channel assemblage prominent in the east and the Slate Bay assemblage in the southwest. The Trout
Bay assemblage is characterized by predominantly mafic tholeiitic extrusive rocks. A laterally
extensive polymict conglomerate belonging to the Huston assemblage marks an angular unconformity
between Mesoarchean and Neoarchean strata and is overlain by dominantly calc-alkalic felsic
volcanic rocks belonging to the Confederation assemblage.
Large-scale folding and steep fault systems dominate the eastern part of the Red Lake
greenstone belt. Northeast trending synclines and anticlines occur northeast of McKenzie Island to
the west of East Bay. On the eastern side of East Bay, a major fold with a northwest trending fold
axis occurs in Bateman and Balmer Townships. In Red Lake Mines system, horizons of ultramafics
within the basalt-dominated stratigraphy created complex geometries through competency contrast
during the mechanical interaction of folding.. High strain corridors characterized by pervasive
foliation and cleavage development along mafic, ultramafic contacts are clearly distinguishable
features using surface mapping and geophysics.
Quartz-carbonate veining and alteration began developing at this stage focused around
mafic-ultramafic contacts, particularly fold hinges and in the damage zones of small and large
displacement fault/shear zones. Continued shortening and foliation development caused rotation of
conjugate shear zones towards parallelism with F2 fold axial surface orientations, producing strong
deformation and strain partitioning. Further shortening resulted in strong near-vertical extension
and locally the development of reverse faults.
Auriferous, siliceous, sulphidic alteration and quartz veining, overprinting earlier
quartz-carbonate veins, began to develop at this stage, apparently after the bulk of strain and
displacements on major fault systems. Minor strike slip movements on fault systems, reflecting at
least local changes in the orientation of stress axes, contributed to the dilation and replacement,
particularly in ultramafic/mafic defined fold hinge zones abutting fault system.
Metamorphism
Owing to the volume of late tectonic granitic plutons, a complex history of metamorphic events
exists which arises from episodes of burial, crustal thickening, thrusting, baking by felsic
intrusions of all sizes and ages, and late hydrothermal alterations focussed along shear zones.
Within the Red Lake belt the alteration is characterized by greenschist metamorphic mineral
assemblages, but with amphibolite facies mineral assemblages in areas close to the major plutons.
Local Geology
The gold bearing zones of the Red Lake Gold Mines occur on the eastern flank of a D2, high
strain corridor, known locally as the Cochenour-Gullrock Lake deformation zone or Red Lake Mines
trend. These units are subparallel to a regional foliation that strikes from 100° to 120° azimuth
, dipping southwest from 65° to 80°.
At broad scales the Red Lake Gold Mines system appears to be hosted by a steeply plunging
reclined F2 fold system with south-southwest-dipping axial surface, outlined by the Bruce Channel
contact to the north, south
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and east, and cored by the Balmer mafic-ultramafic assemblage. This fold system has undergone
significant modification by a system of steeply-to-moderately southwest dipping fault zones which
are interpreted to have developed during D2 deformation, a northeast-southwest oriented shortening.
The D2 event comprised of progressive northeast-southwest shortening resulted in the
dismemberment of the F2 folds along axial planar shear structures, displacing the steeply plunging
parasitic mafic/ultramafic fold hinges into discrete litho-structural domains.
Site Geology
The Red Lake Gold Mines property is underlain mainly by tholeiitic basalt and locally by
komatiitic basalt of the Balmer assemblage. The mine sequence is completed by peridotitic
komatiite, rhyolite and associated mafic intrusions of the Balmer assemblage. The steeply plunging
south-southwest folded package is unconformable overlain by felsic volcaniclastics, clastic and
chemical sedimentary rocks of the Bruce Channel assemblage defining an enveloping syncline
anticline couplet based on younging directions, with the synform hinge located on the northside of
the Campbell Complex, east of the HG Young shaft underneath Balmer Lake and the anticlinal hinge in
the south central portion of the former partywall boundary and east at the Red Lake Gold Mines.
The prominent fabric at the mine site is the S2 cleavage, trending northwest-southeast, axial
planar of the F2 folding, plunging steeply to the south-southwest.
The major mineralized zones, although hosted in basalt, are associated with a central
ultramafic unit, which is a highly carbonatized and altered unit, believed to be either volcanic or
plutonic in origin.
Hydrothermal alteration at the Red Lake Gold Mines can be subdivided into three main phases:
(1) an early alteration subdivided into (a) carbonatization and pervasive biotite (potassic)
alteration and (b) early silicification and aluminosilicate-bearing alteration; (2) main-stage vein
phase of barren dolomite to ankerite, cockade breccias and sheeted veinlet zones with chloritic
alteration; and (3) a mineralization phase with quartz-sericite +/- cordierite alteration and a
late episode of veinlet controlled biotite +/- tourmaline alteration.
The Red Lake Gold Mines mineralized system is a wedge-shaped zone above roughly 27 level which
widens upwards and is constrained by bounding fault structures on the northeast and southwest
flanks. This wedge is defined by steeply south-dipping and south to South-southwestern plunging
litho-structural packages of ultramafic and rhyolitic bodies, enveloped mainly by metabasalts.
These bodies outline dismembered folds which also plunge steeply to the south to
south-southwestern. Fold hinges are preserved between a series of steeply south-dipping and
north-west to west-northwest-striking fault zones separating the detached folds, these major
curviplanar fault/shear zones developed in fold limb positions and are approximately axial plane
parallel.
Exploration
Despite a prolific mining history since 1949 at the Red Lake Gold Mines, minimal exploration
activity and development were focused in proximity to the former boundary which appears to transect
the centroid of the ore body. Recently developed inter-mine connections provide operational
flexibility and staging platforms for exploration of the internal property boundary targets. Deep
exploration depends heavily upon critical development away from the ore body for quality evaluation
of highly sought after high grade vein structures to depth.
The current high priority exploration targets include the High Grade Zone and associated
footwall sulphides, the Deep Campbell zone, the internal property boundary opportunities, the upper
Red Lake sulphides, and surface, bulk mining opportunities. The exploration targets are
characterized by relatively smaller high grade vein structures and laterally extensive footwall,
lower grade, sulphide ore structures.
Mineralization
In general, there are three types of mineralization zones encountered at the Red Lake Gold
Mines, namely vein type ore, disseminated sulphide ore and replacement ore. Structures at the mine
exhibit three trends: conformable northwest, north-south and east-west. The conformable structures
are most common and are sub-parallel to the foliation. The vein systems follow these structures.
Complex vein arrays are those which also include
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the north-south and east-west components. The arrays are most common near high angle
mafic-ultramafic contacts. The High Grade Zone occurs in such an environment where enhanced
dilatency developed and was sustained over a long period of time. Its geometry will combine both
conformable and complex vein arrays overprinted by replacement mineralization.
The ore veins are normally structurally controlled; averaging 1.5 to 1.8 metres in width and
extending over strike lengths ranging from 30 to 300 metres. Sulphide replacement zones vary from
3 to 12 metres in width and extend over a strike length of 120 to 180 metres. Gold mineralization
zones in the Balmer assemblage of the Red Lake Gold Mines system can be broadly subdivided into two
morphological groups: planar to curviplanar zones and plunging zones.
Drilling
Diamond drilling has been carried out at the Red Lake Gold Mines since the beginning of its
operations. Over the years, various lithological descriptions have been developed for each of the
complexes and these have continued to develop and change. Since the merger of Campbell and Red
Lake, the Corporation has developed a new lithological coding system that incorporates both the old
systems.
On an annual basis at the Red Lake Gold Mines, in excess of 500,000 feet of definition,
delineation and exploration diamond drilling is conducted.
Red Lake Complex
The Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves at and above the 30 level are based on over 21,000
surface and underground drill holes. Currently, the below 30 level database for the High Grade
Zone and the sulphide zones contains about 5,300 diamond drill holes totalling more than 2.5
million feet of drilling.
Exploration drill core is transported to the core facility in sealed boxes. Upon arrival it
is marked up by a geologist and then geologically logged while wet. All drill core is logged using
computer codes for the various rock types, mineralization, alteration characteristics and
structural/geotechnical data. The shear structures containing the various mineralized zones are
logged in detail to establish the zone width and sampling interval. Sections of core with high
grade visible mineralization are transferred into safe locked storage to ensure that no core is
lost or replaced, prior to shipping for assay.
Campbell Complex
The Campbell drill hole database consists of a total of 23,761 diamond drill holes, drilled
from underground and surface. The channel sample database consists of a total of 81,074 channel
cuts. Drill core sample security is maintained throughout the year with geological supervision of
transport of the core from the underground/surface drill site, through to the logging facility and
to the in-house assay laboratory.
All drill hole collars are surveyed by mine surveyors, and down hole surveys are taken either
with a Maxibore survey instrument at 5 foot intervals or an acid test/Tropari every 100 feet. Most
of the drill holes greater than 400 feet are surveyed using the Maxibore method. All stopes will
have channel sampling taken every 8-15 feet to fill in the gaps from diamond drill intercepts.
More recently, Reflex and Ranger electronic compass single-shot survey tests are conducted every
100-150 feet down the hole, especially for drill holes exceeding 500 feet in length.
Half of the core is kept for the majority of exploration and all grassroots exploration drill
programs. All holes are logged for lithology, alteration, structure and veining/mineralization and
RQD where applicable.
Sampling and Analysis
Rigorous sampling is done during production for grade control and correlation with Mineral
Reserves estimates and production at the Red Lake Gold Mines. At Red Lake, muck and chip sampling
is performed on a blast by blast basis by the production geology team, while muck sampling at
Campbell is done by the miner during the mucking process. Muck samples are used to provide a
general guide and back-up information for day-to-day
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operations, while test holes are required to ascertain that no mineralization is missed in the
walls of the stope.
The reconciled grade on a stope-by-stope basis is variable between reserves and actual
production, but shows reasonable correlation over a longer period of time through averaging of
several cut and fill lifts or multiple long-hole blocks in the same ore lens.
Sample Preparation, Analyses and Security
Drilling, sampling, analysis, data stewardship, ore body modeling and mine planning are
carried out in accordance with NI 43-101 industry standards. Regular internal auditing of the
Mineral Reserve and Mineral Resource estimation processes and procedures are conducted. The
sampling and analytical methods are believed to be appropriate for the style and type of
mineralization. Mine geological staff has verified all databases used to generate the geological
models and Mineral Resource estimates.
As a general rule, exploration drilling, especially in new areas of potential or Inferred
Mineral Resources, are sampled by taking half core using a diamond saw. Geologists mark the core
saw cut using a lumber crayon. The remaining half core is saved for future reference, part of
which may be used for metallurgical testing. The remaining portion of the core is stored on site.
However, delineation and definition drill holes are sent as whole core for assaying.
Sample lengths are typically in the one to three foot range, and usually shorter in the higher
grade sections. Low-grade rock and waste were typically sampled over two to three foot lengths,
averaging 2.20 feet, while very high grade sections were sampled over 0.5 to 2.0 foot intervals
with an average of 1.60 feet. The sampling strategy is conducted diligently striking a balance
between approaching a consistent sampling interval for improved population statistics while
maintaining respect for geologic boundaries.
Standard fire assay procedures with a gravimetric or AA finish (depending on the anticipated
grade of the sample) are carried out on all assays of production samples. Process, most
definition, muck and chip data assays are generated using the in-house assay laboratory. A
constant monitoring of quality assurance/quality control practices/procedures are conducted on a
regular basis to ensure low assay contamination and consistent data accuracy. Overflow sampling
and the majority of exploration and surface channel, blast hole and diamond drill hole assays are
analyzed at the SGS Lab at Red Lake or the ALS Chemex Lab in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Metallic screen assay methods are done at SGS in Red Lake for samples with visible gold or for
samples where fire assay results reported more than 20 ounces of gold per ton. However, there
appears to be no significant difference in results between metallic screen and regular assay
methods.
Exploration assay checks (duplicates and re-runs) are conducted regularly on the pulps and
rejects and at the discretion of the geologist submitting the samples where assays did not match
physical observations of mineralization.
All samples have barcode tags and are scanned into the computer at sample receiving. Upload
of assays is conducted by electronic transfer of certified assay data. Hard copy, official assay
certificates are archived.
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Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve Estimates
The following table sets forth the estimated Mineral Reserves for the Red Lake Gold Mines as
of
December 31, 2006:
Proven and Probable Mineral Reserves (1)(2)(3)
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| Category |
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Tonnes |
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Grade |
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Contained Metal |
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(millions) |
|
(grams per tonne) |
|
(millions of ounces) |
Proven |
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|
1.16 |
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|
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41.48 |
|
|
|
1.55 |
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Probable |
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6.09 |
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18.57 |
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|
|
3.64 |
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|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Proven + Probable |
|
|
7.25 |
|
|
|
22.24 |
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|
|
5.19 |
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|
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|
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| (1) |
|
The Mineral Reserves for the Red Lake Gold Mines set out in the table above have been
estimated by Stephane Blais, P.Eng. at the Red Lake Gold
Mines, who is a qualified person under NI 43-101. The Mineral Reserves are classified as
proven and probable, and are based on the CIM Standards. |
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| (2) |
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Based on a gold price of $450 per ounce and an exchange rate of 1.15. |
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| (3) |
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The average, diluted, cut-off grade for Mineral Reserves is 0.35 ounces per tonne (12.00
grams per tonne), but ranges from 0.20 ounces per tonne (6.85 grams per tonne) to 0.40 ounces
per tonne (13.71 grams per tonne) depending on the zone and mining method. Resource models
are diluted to minimum horizontal widths of 7 to 9 feet (2.12 to 2.74 metres) at a zero grade. |
The following table sets forth the estimated Mineral Resources for the Red Lake Gold
Mines as of
December 31, 2006:
Measured and Indicated Mineral Resources (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)
(excluding Proven and Probable Mineral Reserves)
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| Category |
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Tonnes |
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Grade |
|
Contained Metal |
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|
(millions) |
|
(grams per tonne) |
|
(millions of ounces) |
Measured |
|
|
0.69 |
|
|
|
23.29 |
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|
|
0.51 |
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Indicated |
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2.51 |
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16.14 |
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1.30 |
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Measured + Indicated |
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3.19 |
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|
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17.68 |
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|
1.81 |
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|
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|
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Inferred |
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2.94 |
|
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26.34 |
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2.49 |
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| (1) |
|
The Mineral Resources for the Red Lake Gold Mines set out in the table above have been
estimated by Anthony Stechishen, P.Geo. for the Campbell Complex and
Dean Crick, M.Sc., P.Geo. for the Red Lake Complex, each at the Red Lake Gold Mines,
who are qualified persons under NI 43-101. The Mineral Resources are classified as measured,
indicated and inferred, and are based on the CIM Standards. |
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| (2) |
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Based on a gold price of $525 per ounce and an exchange rate of 1.15. |
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| (3) |
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The average, diluted, cut-off grade for Mineral Resources is 0.30 ounces per tonne (10.28
grams per tonne), but ranges from 0.20 ounces per tonne (6.85 grams per tonne) to 0.40 ounces
per tonne (13.71 grams per tonne) depending on the zone. The in situ block model has been
diluted to minimum horizontal widths of 4 to 6 feet (1.22 to 1.83 metres). |
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| (4) |
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Mineral Resources are not known with the same degree of certainty as Mineral Reserves and do
not have demonstrated economic viability. |
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| (5) |
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Numbers may not add up due to rounding. |
Mineral Processing and Metallurgical Testing
Red Lake Complex
The original Red Lake mill was built in 1948 and was dismantled in early 2000. Construction
of a new mill took place during 2000. The new process facilities consist of three separate plants:
the crushing plant, the processing plant and the paste fill plant. Commissioning of the crushing
plant began in February 2000, the processing plant’s commissioning phase commenced in early July
2000 with the first gold bar being poured on
August 1, 2000 and commissioning of the paste fill
plant began in August 2000. Commercial production began on
January 1, 2001.
Unit operations in the processing plant include grinding, gravity concentrating, cyanidation,
carbon-in-pulp, carbon elution and reactivation, electrowinning, bullion smelting/refining, cyanide
destruction, flotation and concentrate handling. Three types of gold occur in the Red Lake Gold
Mines ore requiring these various unit operations.
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Campbell Complex
The Campbell mill was designed to treat free milling and refractory gold ore at a rate of 360
tonnes per day in 1949. The throughput has been gradually increased over the years to the current
1,850 tonnes per day.
Conventional crushing and grinding is followed by gravity concentration to recover free
milling gold. Refractory gold, finely disseminated in the arsenopyrite and pyrite matrix, is
recovered by flotation followed by pressure oxidation, neutralization and CIL.
Mining Methods
The mining methods currently in use at the Red Lake Gold Mines are grouped into four
categories: overhand cut and fill, underhand cut and fill, pillar recovery and longhole. The
methods were chosen for, among other things, the following reasons: (a) to selectively mine high
variable and complex ore structures, allowing for full production geology control of each ore
blast; (b) to reduce dilution in order to make the most of the limited available hoisting capacity
by optimizing the grade of the ore hoisted; (c) to mitigate the potential for and damage from
seismic events by controlling the open mining span, providing better control of the mining sequence
and minimizing the creation of sill pillars; (d) to maximize ore recovery; and (e) to develop
methods that could be applied to future mine expansion at depth.
Environmental Considerations and Permitting
Red Lake Gold Mine operates under the Corporation’s sustainability policy which commits the
operation to a defined standard of environmental stewardship. Red Lake Gold Mine has developed a
series of management programs for environmental activities, tailings management and occupational
health and safety that enable the Corporation to reach its commitments.
All requisite permits have been obtained for the mining and continued development of the mine
site and are in good standing. All requisite permits have been obtained for the mining and
continued development of the mine site and are in good standing. Federal and provincial
environmental legislation is recognized through policies and practices on the site that ensure
compliance. The most comprehensive on-site environmental program covers the tailings effluent
monitoring. A mine closure plan has been submitted to the Ministry of Northern Development and
Mines and the technical portion of the document has been accepted. The tailing ponds are situated
on the surface rights in Balmer Township.
Campbell dealt with the negative environmental consequences of arsenopyrite contamination in
waste rock and tailings pond discharge by constructing a nine hectare wetland. Copper, ammonia and
low levels of other contaminants are removed through naturally occurring water treatment as the
discharge water moves through the wetlands during the ice-free season. This process made Campbell
one of the first gold mines in Ontario to harness natural, microbial forces to produce a non-toxic
discharge. This system is being introduced to the Red Lake Gold Mines.
The tailings management facility is currently undergoing modifications to address current mill
and mine effluent to ensure discharge water continues to meet all provincial and federal
regulations.
Peñasquito Project, Mexico
M3 Engineering & Technology Corp. (
“M3”) prepared a feasibility report dated
July 31, 2006
entitled
“Peñasquito Feasibility Study: 100,000 MTPD NI 43-101 Technical Report” (the
“Peñasquito
Report”). The following description of the Peñasquito Project has been summarized, in part, from
the Peñasquito Report and readers should consult the Peñasquito Report to obtain further
particulars regarding the Peñasquito Project. The Peñasquito Report is available for review on the
SEDAR
website located at
www.sedar.com under Glamis’
profile.
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Property Description, Location and Accessibility
The Corporation owns, through its wholly-owned Mexican subsidiary, Minera Peñasquito, S.A. de
C.V. (“Minera Peñasquito”), 100% of the mineral rights to a large area covering approximately
39,000 hectares located in the north-eastern portion of the State of Zacatecas in north-central
Mexico (the “Peñasquito Property”). The closest major town is Conception del Oro which lies
approximately 27 kilometres west of the Peñasquito Property on Mexican highway 54, a well
maintained, paved highway which links the major cities of Zacatecas (in the state of Zacatecas),
approximately 250 kilometres to the southwest with Saltillo (in the state of Coahuila)
approximately 125 kilometres to the northeast.
Investigations on the Peñasquito Property have identified several major sulphide
mineralization zones with significant values of silver, gold, zinc and lead. The Peñasquito Report
considers the economic development of two zones, the Peñasco (the “Peñasco Zone”) and the Chile
Colorado (the “Chile Colorado Zone”), which have been the subject of most of the geological and
metallurgical investigations to date (collectively the “Peñasquito Project”). Preliminary resource
investigation has been performed on two additional zones, Azul Breccia and El Sotol, but no
development plan has yet been evaluated for these zones. In addition to the sulphide
mineralization, the Peñasco Zone and the Chile Colorado Zone also have substantial oxide ore and
mixed ore (oxide/sulphide transition material) caps which contain recoverable gold and silver. The
gold and silver recovered from the oxide and mixed ores have been included in the Peñasquito
Project economic evaluation.
The following table lists the mineral claims associated with the development of the Peñasquito
Project. This table is not a complete list of Minera Peñasquito’s mineral interests associated
with the Peñasquito Property.
List of Pertinent Claims — Peñasquito Project
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Type |
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Title |
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File No. |
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Area (Hectares) |
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Date Issued |
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Expiry Date |
EL PEÑASQUITO |
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Exploitation |
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196289 |
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43/885 |
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2.000 |
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1993-07-16 |
|
2011-07-11 |
LA PEÑA |
|
Exploitation |
|
203264 |
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07/1.3/547 |
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58.000 |
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1996-06-28 |
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2046-06-27 |
LAS PEÑAS |
|
Exploitation |
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212290 |
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8/1.3/00983 |
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40.000 |
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2000-09-29 |
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2050-09-28 |
ALFA |
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Exploitation |
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201997 |
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7/1.3/485 |
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1100.000 |
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1995-10-11 |
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2045-10-10 |
BETA |
|
Exploitation |
|
211970 |
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8/1.3/01137 |
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2054.761 |
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2000-08-18 |
|
2050-08-17 |
SEGUNDA RED. CONCHA |
|
Exploration |
|
218920 |
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8/2/00018 |
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23304.691 |
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2006-11-22 |
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2050-11-06 |
MAZAPIL 3 F. I |
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Exploration |
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217001 |
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007/13852 |
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1950.702 |
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2002-06-14 |
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2008-06-13 |
MAZAPIL 10 |
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Exploration |
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223327 |
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93/26975 |
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1073.555 |
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2004-10-02 |
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2010-10-01 |
A 2% net smelter return royalty is owed to Royal Gold, Inc. (as a result of its
acquisition of Kennecott Canada Explorations Inc. (“Kennecott”) in 2006) on production from the
Peñasquito Project.
There is no previous mine development of any form in the immediate area of the Peñasco Zone
and the Chile Colorado Zone and as such no environmental liabilities are attached to the Peñasquito
Project.
Physiography, Climate and Infrastructure
Physiography
The Peñasquito Project area lies within a wide valley bounded to the north by the Sierra El
Mascaron and the south by the Sierra Las Bocas. Except for one small outcrop, the area is covered
by up to 30 metres of alluvium. The terrain is generally flat, rolling hills. Vegetation is
mostly scrub, with cactus and coarse grasses. The prevailing elevation of the Peñasquito Project
is approximately 1900 metres above sea level.
Climate
The climate in the area of the Peñasquito Project is generally dry with precipitation being
limited for the most part to a rainy season of June and July. Annual precipitation for the area is
approximately 700 millimetres, most of which falls in the rainy season. Temperatures range between
20 degrees Celsius and 30 degrees Celsius in
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the summer and 0 degrees Celsius to 15 degrees Celsius in the winter.
Access and Infrastructure
An adequate network of road and rail services exists in the region to support the Peñasquito
Project. Road access to the Peñasquito Project is presently gained west out of Conceptión del Oro.
The road is very steep immediately west of Concepción del Oro with numerous tight switch-backs.
It is either paved or cobbled and maintained to approximately 6 kilometres from the Peñasquito
Project, where the road becomes a well-maintained gravel road. The Chile Colorado Zone is within
two kilometres of this main road and the Peñasco Zone lies adjacent to the road. There is one
railhead approximately 100 kilometres to the west.
A new road is being constructed by the State of Zacatecas from just east of the Peñasquito
Project to Highway 54 approximately 25 kilometres south of Concepción del Oro. This road will
provide good access to the Peñasquito Property. The road is approximately 70% complete with about
2.5 kilometres yet to be completed over a mountain pass. Construction of the road has been halted
for lack of government funds. The final portion of the road must be completed before the start of
construction at the Peñasquito Project and it is anticipated that Glamis will need to fund
approximately $2 million of construction costs. Use of this new road will eliminate the rather
steep switchback sections of the current cobblestone road just west of Concepción del Oro and the
town of Concepción del Oro itself.
Negotiations for a high voltage power line right-of-way are in progress.
Given the mining experience in the area and the high unemployment rate, there is expected to
be an adequate pool of mining personnel available.
There is adequate space for development of the process facilities and the tailings and waste
areas. The tailings disposal will be constructed as a four-sided containment area using mine waste
for a starter dam and tailings for raising the embankment. In general, this is a very favourable
site for development.
Surface Rights
Surface rights covering the Peñasquito Project are held by one private individual and three
Ejidos. Minera Peñasquito is currently in negotiations to finalize surface rights to the land
required for the project. Signatures indicating agreement to the granting of access to Minera
Peñasquito have been obtained from the Ejidos and the private owner.
An Ejido is a communal ownership of land recognized by the federal laws in Mexico. While
mineral rights are administered by the federal government through federally issued mining
concessions, an Ejido controls surface rights over communal property through a board of directors
which is headed by a president. An Ejido may also allow individual members of the Ejido to obtain
title to specific parcels of land and thus the right to rent or sell the land. Negotiations with
individual members of the Ejido regarding their specific parcels are in progress at this time.
Relations with the Ejidos remain positive.
Water
A study has been conducted to confirm adequate water capacity for the Peñasquito Project and a
report was submitted to the applicable Mexican authorities on
December 15, 2004. Typically, the
multi-department review takes between 8 to 12 months. Upon completion of the review, the report and
associated findings are published in the official Diary of the Federation. A letter of intent was
prepared for a concession to pump up to 10 million cubic metres of water per year to be used for
the Peñasquito Project. This letter was submitted in April 2005. The Mexican authorities have
given a preliminary indication that they will permit an allocation of 5 million cubic metres of
water per year for the Peñasquito Project. Additional drilling is ongoing to support an
application for the remaining 5 million cubic metres of water per year needed to support the
production at the Peñasquito Project.
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History
The region in which the Peñasquito Property is located has a strong tradition of mining going
back to the mid 1500s when silver mining first started in the region and the city of Zacatecas was
founded. Up until the 19th century, 20% of all silver mined in the world was reportedly mined from
the region surrounding the City of Zacatecas. Mining remains active in the State of Zacatecas.
Some limited exploration of the Peñasquito Project area was carried out during the 1950s,
however, it was not until 1994 when Kennecott initiated a comprehensive exploration program in the
project area that the size and potential of the mineralized system were recognized.
Western Silver acquired 100% of the Peñasquito Project from Kennecott in March 1998. On
August 24, 2000, Western Silver optioned the Peñasquito Property to Mauricio Hochschild & Cia Ltda.
(
“Hochschild”), a Peruvian company. During the fourth quarter of 2000, Hochschild completed a 14
hole, 4,601 metre drill program, with 11 holes drilled in the Chile Colorado Zone and adjacent
area. However, Hochschild returned the property to Western Silver after spending more than $1
million on drilling and land payments.
In 2002, Western Silver began actively drilling the Peñasquito Property and continued to do so
up until May of 2006 when Glamis acquired Western Silver. Exploration drilling has recently focused
on the Peñasco Zone.
Geological Setting
The local geology is dominated almost entirely by the rocks of the Mexico Geosyncline, a
2.5-kilometre thick series of marine sediments deposited during the Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods
and consisting of a 2,000-metre thick sequence of carbonaceous and calcareous turbidic siltstones
and interbedded sandstones underlain by a 1,200-metre thick limestone sequence.
A large granodiorite stock is believed to underlie the entire area and the sediments of the
Mexico Geosyncline are cut by numerous intrusive dykes, sills and stocks of intermediate to felsic
composition.
Both the sediments of the Mexico Geosyncline and the granodiorite are believed to have been
intruded along the western and southern margins of the granodiorite by one or two quartz-feldspar
porphyry stocks. The porphyry stocks did not reach surface but are at depth. They are represented
at the bedrock surface by two hydrothermal diatreme breccia pipes, the Azul Breccia Pipe and the
Outcrop Breccia Pipe. There is a single outcrop of silicified breccia of the Outcrop Breccia Pipe
which is associated with the Peñasco Zone. It is the only outcrop on the property.
Both breccia pipes are believed to have erupted and breached the surface. Their eruption
craters and ejecta aprons have since been eroded away, and the current bedrock surface at the
Peñasquito Property is estimated to be on the order of 50-75 metres below the paleo-eruption
surface. Both of the breccia pipes sit within a hydrothermal alteration shell of propylitic
alteration that has largely been overprinted by weak phyllic alteration that intensifies at depth.
Mineralization
Sulphide mineralization occurs in the Chile Colorado Zone and the Peñasco Zone that are hosted
in the Outcrop Breccia Pipe and it occurs in association with other breccias located on the
property.
The Peñasco Zone is in the east half of the Outcrop Breccia Pipe directly above the projected
throat of the breccia pipe. In plan view, the Peñasco Zone is ovoid in shape, is at least 500
metres wide in an east-west direction and is 1000 metres long in a north-south direction. It has
formed around a complex series of small quartz-porphyry stocks and dikes with some felsite dikes.
It is composed of disseminations and veinlets of medium to coarse-grained
sphalerite-galena-argentite, other unidentified silver sulfosalts, minor tetrahedrite-polybasite
and common gangue of calcite-rhodochrosite-quartz-fluorite.
The intrusive rocks themselves are also often mineralized. Mineralization also extends upwards
along the
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north and south contacts of the Outcrop Breccia Pipe. At the south
contract, it extends
upwards in the mixed clast breccia adjacent to the northwest faults that cut the breccia pipe.
The most common mineral host is the intrusive hydrothermal breccia. This breccia is the
dominant rock below the 1,600-metre level. It also is widely distributed as a halo around the
porphyry stocks and dikes. The porphyry often appears to brecciate into the intrusive hydrothermal
breccia as it passes upwards. Mineralization is present in the upper mixed clast breccia along the
south contact, the quartz-feldspar porphyry intrusive breccia and, to a lesser extent, the
quartz-porphyry dikes. The felsite dikes are at times also good mineral hosts.
The mineralization of the Chile Colorado Zone normally occurs as both veining and narrow
fracture filling, hosted in weakly silicified sandstone, siltstone or shale. The mineralization
has been interpreted to represent stockworks, localized by a north-south trending fracture zone.
Sphalerite and galena associated with carbonate and pyrite occur as massive veins. Pyrite,
sphalerite and galena have also been observed as discrete crystals and disseminations within
sandstone units. Late state carbonates and pyrite fracture fillings occur throughout the
sediments.
Exploration
Kennecott completed numerous air and ground based geophysical surveys on the Peñasquito claim
groups between 1994 and 1997. The aeromagnetic survey of the region defined an 8 kilometres by 4
kilometres, north-south trending magnetic high centered roughly on the Outcrop Breccia. Drilling
during 1996 resulted in the discovery of the Chile Colorado Zone.
Kennecott completed an extensive rapid air blast (“RAB”) drilling campaign across much of the
Peñasquito Project area after the discovery of the Chile Colorado Zone. This program, designed to
systematically test the entire project area, consisted of 250 holes. The holes penetrated the
extensive overburden cover and collected chip samples from anomalies, which had been discovered
during the numerous geophysical surveys as well as outlining other, previously unknown anomalies.
Twenty-eight of the RAB holes in this campaign by Kennecott were drilled within and immediately
adjacent to the Peñasco Zone. The geochemical survey results indicated that further exploration
was warranted in this area. Exploration drilling results have subsequently confirmed significant
mineralization in the Peñasco Zone.
During 1998 Western Silver completed nine core holes (3,185 metres) and 13.4 line kilometres
of geophysical surveying. Most of the work was focused on the Chile Colorado Zone and the adjacent
area. In 2004, Western Silver initiated additional geophysical surveys that extended coverage on
the older lines, and extended coverage to the east of the pre-existing coverage. The geophysical
database for the Peñasquito Project area now provides a detailed electric cross-section that images
changes in geology, and appears to identify specific targets of interest.
Drilling
The Peñasquito Property has been drilled by different operators over several campaigns and
phases beginning in 1995. Drilling has focused on the exploration of three principal areas: the
Chile Colorado Zone, the Azul Zone (Azul Breccia, Azul NE and Luna Azul) and the Peñasco Zone,
including El Sotol adjacent to the Peñasco Zone. Work is presently concentrated on both in-fill and
step-out exploration drilling of the Peñasco Zone.
The following table summarizes drilling performed and assayed to date on the Peñasquito
Property. This data has been used in the preparation of the resource estimates used in the
Peñasquito Feasibility Study. Additional extensive drilling is ongoing.
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Summary of Project Drilling at the Peñ
asquito Project — Through to June 30, 2006
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Number of |
|
Metres of |
|
Average Hole |
| Calendar Year |
|
Drill Holes |
|
Drilling (1) |
|
Length (metres) |
1994-1997 Drilling (Kennecott) |
|
|
71 |
|
|
|
23,929 |
|
|
|
337 |
|
1998 Drilling (Western Silver) |
|
|
9 |
|
|
|
3,185 |
|
|
|
354 |
|
2000 Drilling (Hochschild) |
|
|
14 |
|
|
|
4,601 |
|
|
|
329 |
|
2002 Drilling (Western Silver) |
|
|
45 |
|
|
|
19,795 |
|
|
|
440 |
|
2003 Drilling (Western Silver) |
|
|
99 |
|
|
|
26,695 |
|
|
|
270 |
|
2004 Drilling (Western Silver) |
|
|
120 |
|
|
|
57,051 |
|
|
|
475 |
|
2005 Drilling (Western Silver) |
|
|
138 |
|
|
|
91,220 |
|
|
|
661 |
|
2006 Drilling to June 30 (Western Silver and Glamis) |
|
|
32 |
|
|
|
22,944 |
|
|
|
717 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Drilling Total |
|
|
528 |
|
|
|
249,420 |
|
|
|
473 |
|
|
|
|
| (1) |
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15,135 metres are reverse circulation drilling; the balance are diamond core. |
Sampling, Analysis, Security and Data Verification
Due to the alluvial cover, the vast majority of resource sampling at the Peñasquito Project
has been done using either reverse circulation or diamond core drilling. All drilling in 2004 and
most other drilling has been primarily large size core drilling, but narrower diameter core was
used at depth in the longer holes.
Minera Peñasquito has sampled drill holes from bedrock to final depth. The standard sample
interval is 2.0 metres. Some samples are limited to geological boundaries and are less than 2.0
metres in length. A senior geologist examined the core, defined the primary sample contacts, and
designated the axis along which to cut the core. Special attention in veined areas was taken to
ensure representative splits were made perpendicular and not parallel to veins.
Geological logging is very detailed and follows the geological legend on a regional scale.
Once the core was measured, marked, photographed, and logged geotechnically and geologically, the
core boxes were brought to the diamond saw cutting stations. The core was sawed in half, One-half
of every sample was placed into a heavy plastic bag that the splitter’s helper had previously
marked with the drill hole and sample number and the sample tag was inserted into the plastic bag.
Standard Reference Material samples and blanks were inserted into the sample stream going to the
assay laboratory in a documented sequence on a frequency of approximately 1 in 20 samples.
A Minera Peñasquito truck transported the sacks to the ALS Chemex Laboratories (“ALS”) in
Guadalajara, Mexico approximately once per week, where the samples were prepped and pulped. Pulps
were then sent to ALS in Vancouver, British Columbia where they were assayed and checked. Almost
all of the drilled intervals are assayed for gold, silver, lead and zinc. At present ALS is Minera
Peñasquito’s primary assay lab. Check samples were also sent to Acme Laboratories of Vancouver.
Both ALS and Acme are ISO9002-certified laboratories and both use industry standard sample
preparation procedures.
The sample preparation procedures on site before shipment to the laboratory have been
independently reviewed and deemed secure and adequate. An independent sampling, preparation and
assaying audit has not been performed.
QA/QC procedures employed by Minera Peñasquito have been independently reviewed by IMC and no
significant concerns were noted.
Based on a review of Minera Peñasquito’s sample preparation, analysis, security, and QA/QC
procedures to date with respect to database verification, the database used for the resource
estimates is deemed in the Peñasquito Feasibility Study to be accurately compiled and maintained,
and is suitable for use in mineral resource estimation. Approximately 90% of the data base assays
were run on Minera Peñasquito samples.
The Peñasquito Feasibility Study states that no significant problems were identified during
reviews of the drilling data, that the holes appear to have been properly located and
downhole-surveyed and to have recovered an
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adequate sample (core recovery during the later Minera Peñasquito campaigns averaged 97.8%).
Several thousand gold, silver, lead and zinc check assays run by a check laboratory (usually
Acme) on pulps prepared by the primary laboratory that ran the data base assays (usually Chemex)
are available for the Kennecott campaign and for Minera Peñasquito Drilling Phases 1, 2, 3, 5, 6,
7, 8, 9, 10 and 11. These assays act as a check on the analytical procedures used by the primary
lab. A few hundred gold, silver, lead and zinc assays run by a check lab (Acme, M3/Hazen Research
or Davis Metallurgical Laboratories) on fresh pulps prepared by the check lab are available for
Minera Peñasquito Drilling Phases 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14. These assays act as a
check on both the analytical and the sample preparation procedures used by the primary lab. No
check assays are available for the Hochschild, 1998 and Minera Peñasquito Phase 4 campaigns, and as
of the time of writing the Peñasquito Feasibility Study, check assaying for Minera Peñasquito
Phases 15, 16, and 17 was in progress.
The Peñasquito Feasibility Study states that the check assay comparisons show generally
acceptable overall agreement between the primary and check labs for all of the campaigns/phases for
which check assays are available. Standard and blank assaying results also appear to be generally
acceptable. It is reported in the Peñasquito Feasibility Study that there are indications that
some of the data base silver assays run by Chemex during the later Minera Peñasquito phases may be
biased 5-15% low as a result of analytical factors, but this bias cannot presently be confirmed,
and the errors introduced into net smelter return value estimates would be minimal even if it did
exist.
The check assay data was supplemented by performing numerous paired comparisons of grades from
different drilling and assaying campaigns, including those for which no check assays are available.
The results show no evidence to indicate that any of the Minera Peñasquito and Kennecott data base
assays are affected by large analytical or sample preparation biases. However, they do suggest
that the Hochschild grades are quite heavily high-biased relative to the Kennecott and Minera
Peñasquito grades for gold, silver, and zinc. No Hochschild samples were available for re-assay,
so the precautionary decision was taken not to use the Hochschild assays when estimating grades in
the resource model. The paired-comparison reviews did not detect any biases between core and
reverse circulation drilling. (About 10% of the exploration drilling is reverse circulation.)
Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve Estimates
The following table sets forth the estimated Mineral Reserves for the Peñasquito Project as of
December 31, 2006:
Proven and Probable Mineral Reserves (1)(2)(3)(4)
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Grade |
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|
Contained Metal |
|
| Deposit |
|
Category |
|
Tonnes |
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|
Gold |
|
|
Silver |
|
|
Lead |
|
|
Zinc |
|
|
Gold |
|
|
Silver |
|
|
Lead |
|
|
Zinc |
|
| |
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(millions) |
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(grams |
|
|
(grams |
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|
(%) |
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|
(%) |
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(millions |
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(millions |
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(millions |
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(millions |
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per |
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per |
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of ounces) |
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|
of ounces) |
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of pounds) |
|
|
of pounds) |
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|
tonne) |
|
|
tonne) |
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|
Peñasquito Project |
|
Proven |
|
|
267.92 |
|
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|
0.60 |
|
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|
35.4 |
|
|
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0.38 |
|
|
|
0.81 |
|
|
|
5.18 |
|
|
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305.3 |
|
|
|
2,267 |
|
|
|
4,758 |
|
Mill |
|
Probable |
|
|
209.01 |
|
|
|
0.60 |
|
|
|
30.2 |
|
|
|
0.31 |
|
|
|
0.70 |
|
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|
4.01 |
|
|
|
203.0 |
|
|
|
1,416 |
|
|
|
3,224 |
|
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|
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|
|
Proven + Probable |
|
|
476.93 |
|
|
|
0.60 |
|
|
|
33.2 |
|
|
|
0.35 |
|
|
|
0.76 |
|
|
|
9.19 |
|
|
|
508.3 |
|
|
|
3,683 |
|
|
|
7,982 |
|
|
|
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|
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|
Peñasquito Project |
|
Proven |
|
|
68.24 |
|
|
|
0.27 |
|
|
|
24.2 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.59 |
|
|
|
53.0 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
Heap Leach |
|
Probable |
|
|
18.81 |
|
|
|
0.33 |
|
|
|
22.4 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.20 |
|
|
|
13.5 |
|
|
|
— |
|
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— |
|
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|
Proven + Probable |
|
|
87.06 |
|
|
|
0.28 |
|
|
|
23.8 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.79 |
|
|
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66.5 |
|
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|
— |
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— |
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| (1) |
|
The Mineral Reserves for the Peñasquito Project set out in the table above have been
estimated by James S. Voorhees, P.Eng., formerly at Glamis, who is a qualified person under NI
43-101. The Mineral Reserves are classified as proven and probable, and are based on the CIM
Standards. |
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| (2) |
|
Based on a gold price of $450 per ounce, a silver price of $7 per ounce, a lead price of
$0.30 per pound and a zinc price of $0.60 per pound. |
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| (3) |
|
The average, diluted, cut-off grade for Mineral Reserves is 0.35 ounces per tonne (12.00
grams per tonne), but ranges from 0.20 ounces per tonne (6.85 grams per tonne) to 0.40 ounces
per tonne (13.71 grams per tonne) depending on the zone and mining method. Resource models
are diluted to minimum horizontal widths of 7 to 9 feet (2.12 to 2.74 metres) at a zero grade. |
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| (4) |
|
Numbers may not add up due to rounding. |
The following table sets forth the estimated Mineral Resources for the Peñasquito Project
as of
December 31, 2006:
Measured, Indicated and Inferred Mineral Resources (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)
(excluding Proven and Probable Mineral Reserves)
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Grade |
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Contained Metal |
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| Deposit |
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Category |
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Tonnes |
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Gold |
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Silver |
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Lead |
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Zinc |
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Gold |
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Silver |
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Lead |
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Zinc |
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(grams |
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(grams |
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(%) |
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(%) |
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(millions |
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per |
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per |
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of ounces) |
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of ounces) |
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of pounds) |
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of pounds) |
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| |
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tonne) |
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|
tonne) |
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|
Peñasquito Project |
|
Measured |
|
|
114.30 |
|
|
|
0.32 |
|
|
|
26.4 |
|
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|
0.25 |
|
|
|
0.67 |
|
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|
1.18 |
|
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|
96.9 |
|
|
|
632 |
|
|
|
1,676 |
|
Mill |
|
Indicated |
|
|
156.90 |
|
|
|
0.29 |
|
|
|
26.0 |
|
|
|
0.29 |
|
|
|
0.62 |
|
|
|
1.45 |
|
|
|
131.2 |
|
|
|
990 |
|
|
|
2,129 |
|
|
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|
|
|
Measured + Indicated |
|
|
271.20 |
|
|
|
0.30 |
|
|
|
26.2 |
|
|
|
0.27 |
|
|
|
0.64 |
|
|
|
2.62 |
|
|
|
228.1 |
|
|
|
1,622 |
|
|
|
3,805 |
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|
Inferred |
|
|
2,404.60 |
|
|
|
0.18 |
|
|
|
11.0 |
|
|
|
0.10 |
|
|
|
0.29 |
|
|
|
13.76 |
|
|
|
849.3 |
|
|
|
5,389 |
|
|
|
15,638 |
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|
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|
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|
Peñasquito Project |
|
Measured |
|
|
16.10 |
|
|
|
0.13 |
|
|
|
13.6 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.07 |
|
|
|
7.1 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
Heap Leach |
|
Indicated |
|
|
21.10 |
|
|
|
0.14 |
|
|
|
17.4 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.10 |
|
|
|
11.8 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
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|
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|
|
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|
|
|
Measured + Indicated |
|
|
37.20 |
|
|
|
0.13 |
|
|
|
15.8 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.16 |
|
|
|
18.9 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
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|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inferred |
|
|
172.0 |
|
|
|
0.07 |
|
|
|
5.8 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
0.39 |
|
|
|
31.8 |
|
|
|
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| (1) |
|
The Mineral Resources for the Peñasquito Project set out in the table above have been
estimated by James S. Voorhees, P.Eng., formerly at Glamis, who is a qualified person under NI
43-101. The Mineral Resources are classified as measured, indicated and inferred, and are
based on the CIM Standards. |
| |
| (2) |
|
Based on a gold price of $648 per ounce, a silver price of $10.08 per ounce, a lead price of
$0.43 per pound and a zinc price of $0.86 per pound. |
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| (3) |
|
The average, diluted, cut-off grade for Mineral Resources is 0.30 ounces per tonne (10.28
grams per tonne), but ranges from 0.20 ounces per tonne (6.85 grams per tonne) to 0.40 ounces
per tonne (13.71 grams per tonne) depending on the zone. The in situ block model has been
diluted to minimum horizontal widths of 4 to 6 feet (1.22 to 1.83 metres). |
| |
| (4) |
|
Mineral Resources are not known with the same degree of certainty as Mineral Reserves and do
not have demonstrated economic viability. |
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| (5) |
|
Numbers may not add up due to rounding. |
Proposed Mining Operations
Mine Plan
The mine plan for the Peñasquito Project provides for sulphide ore to be processed by a mill —
flotation plant that will produce two concentrates for sale: a lead concentrate and a zinc
concentrate. The mine plan provides for oxide and mixed ores to be processed by a heap leaching
facility that will produce a silver and gold doré.
The mine plan provides for a combined production schedule for both sulphide and oxide ores
from both the Peñasco and Chile Colorado Zones. The start of mining operations is expected to
begin in calendar year 2008, and is taken as Year 0 in the mining schedule. It is planned that
half way through Year 1, sufficient sulphide ore will be available such that the mill operation can
begin under a 6-month startup and commissioning mode. Commercial mill production is scheduled to
begin in Year 2 and is planned to continue through Year 3 at an annual mining rate of 18.2 million
tonnes of sulphide ore per year. Starting in Year 4, it is planned that production of sulphide mill
ore will increase to a rate of 36.5 million tonnes per year. The mine plan provides for the total
material mined per year to increase over the first 5 years to peak at 179.0 million tonnes per year
(511,430 tonnes per day).
The current ore reserves are 476.9 million tonnes of sulphide ore, 87.1 million tones of leach
ore with a life of mine waste to ore ratio of 2.76:1. Commercial sulphide production is scheduled
for 17 years.
Environmental Permitting
The Corporation has obtained all permits required for full mine and mill construction and
operation of the
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Peñasquito Project. The permits and approvals granted include the primary project
permit, the high voltage transmission line, construction permits, water permits and electrical
power permits.
Metallurgical Testing
Metallurgical test work initiated since the completion of a pre-feasibility study in 2004
includes comminution testing, flotation testing, modal analyses, and gravity testing, all for the
sulphide process. For the oxide process, bottle roll and column leach tests have been performed.
Additional work is in progress for both the sulphide and oxide mineralization. Samples from both
the Chile Colorado and the Peñasco Zones are being tested. Most of the work now in progress and
planned for the near future utilizes metallurgical diamond drill hole (“DDH”) samples produced in
late 2004 and early 2005. A program consisting of 13 DDKs was completed in February 2005. The
program produced approximately 3,400 metres of PQ (83 millimetres) and 600 metres of HQ (64
millimetres diameter) core. The core from the sulphide zone was shrink-wrapped to prevent
oxidation. Crushed sulphide samples are also being stored in freezers until they can be tested.
Additionally, bulk samples for run-of-mine testing of the oxide ore were extracted from four
hand-dug wells in the Peñasco Zone.
Economics
The following are the current projected economic parameters for the Peñasquito Project as set
out in the Peñasquito Feasibility Study:
| |
|
|
|
|
Mine life (years) |
|
|
17 |
|
Mill throughput (tonnes per day) |
|
100,000 (50,000 initial) |
Initial capital cost (millions) |
|
$ |
882 |
|
Sustaining capital (millions) |
|
$ |
327 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Average Annual Payable Metal: |
|
|
|
|
Gold (troy ounces) |
|
|
387,500 |
|
Silver (troy ounces) |
|
|
22,846,000 |
|
Lead (tonnes) |
|
|
71,125 |
|
|