加拿大Nova Scotia采金热潮再现

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Workers set charges as they prepare a blast at Atlantic Gold Corporation's Touquoy open pit gold mine in Moose River Gold Mines, N.S. on Tuesday, June 6, 2017. Amid the dull claystone of a tube-shaped sample of rock, the gleaming, pulse-quickening swirl of gold is unmistakable. "It's quite a special specimen of gold -- it's by far the best visible section of gold we've ever intersected," said Tim Bourque, a geologist with Atlantic Gold Corp, cradling the metre-long sample in his arms. The discovery of the precious metal in such unremarkable hunks of stone is helping to revive a dormant industry -- and Bourque hopes it will keep the company's Moose River Consolidated Project flourishing after its initial Touquoy mine starts up here in September. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan

■大西洋黄金公司重点开采的Touquoy金矿。 加通社

综合报道

新斯高沙省(Nova Scotia)采金业经历一段沉寂岁月后终于露出曙光,省府批出的开采牌照在去年大幅增加,反映愈来愈多采金公司重振旗鼓,务求能够在这股新淘金热分一杯羹。

新斯高沙省天然资源厅表示,去年批出的开采牌照从259增至417张,涉及的开采面积由35,000公顷增至97,000公顷,虽然开采并非全部是金矿,但黄金是很多开采商的主要目标。
大西洋黄金公司(Atlantic Gold Corp,CVE:AGB)在新斯高沙省拥有4个金矿,根据该公司去年对Fifteen Mile Lake金矿进行的研究,这个金矿蕴藏的黄金样本较为特殊,可望支持其金矿计划穆斯河综合项目 (Moose River Consolidated Project),在Touquoy金矿今年9月开幕后继续蓬勃发展。

预计可创造大量职位

Touquoy金矿首年产金量预料达到87,000盎司,以现在每盎司金价超过1,200美元计算,将会带来丰厚收益计算,足以驱使大西洋黄金与其他矿业公司涌往东岸地区(Eastern Shore)淘金。
纽芬兰矿业公司Anaconda(TSX:ANX)亦在哈里法斯(Halifax)东北185公里的Goldboro地区购入一个金矿,准备3年内把其开采的矿石运返纽芬兰加工。
在现阶段,新斯高沙省的金矿能否进一步开采有待环保评估结果,但预期淘金热可望创造大量新职位,令到矿务人员不再投闲置散。

资料来源:加通社

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