Briggs lays off 13 more employees
BY RUTH JUSTIS/rjustis@ridgecrestca.com
Thursday, January 13, 2005 1:53 PM PST
C.R. Briggs Corporation is forced to reduce its staff in half as 13 employees will receive a pink slip today due to reduced mining operations at the Panamint Valley site.
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"Nobody benefits if we have to close down," said Richard DeVoto, president of Canyon Resources Corporation in Golden, Colo., Briggs' parent company.
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What was initially a 125-employee operation has been reduced to 25 people and with today's layoffs, will now be reduced to 14, said DeVoto.
"We finished mining new ore in April 2004. We continue to process ore from the leach pads, but we are no longer blasting or digging new rock. Without the need for drivers and drillers, the present staff of 25 will be reduced to about 13 or 14," said DeVoto.
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"We'd like to have a presence in the area for another 15 years," DeVoto said.
All waste rock has been re-contoured, covered with topsoil and vegetation. The leach pads, where the mining process continues, will be covered and re-vegetated by the end of 2005 or early in 2006, depending on mining operations, according to DeVoto.
Pintail Environmental Solutions, a research and development company which has successfully developed biological processes to remove gold from spent gold heaps, is also on site conducting tests into the feasibility of reclaiming more gold from Briggs heaps.
Pintail has conducted many successful tests of residual gold recovery in the past 15 years and has been able to recover a large percentage of the gold remaining in spent heaps, according to a press release issued by Canyon Resources.
BY RUTH JUSTIS/rjustis@ridgecrestca.com
Thursday, January 13, 2005 1:53 PM PST
C.R. Briggs Corporation is forced to reduce its staff in half as 13 employees will receive a pink slip today due to reduced mining operations at the Panamint Valley site.
...
"Nobody benefits if we have to close down," said Richard DeVoto, president of Canyon Resources Corporation in Golden, Colo., Briggs' parent company.
...
What was initially a 125-employee operation has been reduced to 25 people and with today's layoffs, will now be reduced to 14, said DeVoto.
"We finished mining new ore in April 2004. We continue to process ore from the leach pads, but we are no longer blasting or digging new rock. Without the need for drivers and drillers, the present staff of 25 will be reduced to about 13 or 14," said DeVoto.
...
"We'd like to have a presence in the area for another 15 years," DeVoto said.
All waste rock has been re-contoured, covered with topsoil and vegetation. The leach pads, where the mining process continues, will be covered and re-vegetated by the end of 2005 or early in 2006, depending on mining operations, according to DeVoto.
Pintail Environmental Solutions, a research and development company which has successfully developed biological processes to remove gold from spent gold heaps, is also on site conducting tests into the feasibility of reclaiming more gold from Briggs heaps.
Pintail has conducted many successful tests of residual gold recovery in the past 15 years and has been able to recover a large percentage of the gold remaining in spent heaps, according to a press release issued by Canyon Resources.
