Zur Erinnerung
In my experience, there are two ways to go when opening a new mine: Confrontation or consultation," said Gerry McDonald, Vedron's operations manager for both mines. "I prefer to go for consultation."
The Davidson Tisdale mine is scheduled to go into production in the fall of 2007, while the smaller Fuller mine is slated to start up in early 2008.
No one at the meeting seemed to have concerns about the Davidson Tisdale mine because it is located a few miles north of South Porcupine, but the Fuller mine is situated just northeast of Cook Road and Gold Mine Road.
The Fuller mine, which is anticipated to have a production rate of 600 tons of gold ore per day over about four-and-a-half years, will operate 10 hours a day, seven days a week.
McDonald proposed the model used by the Buffalo Ankerite mine, which entails bi-weekly meetings to address public problems with the mine.