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FEATURED MINING COMPANY
WESTERN COPPER CORP.
CANADA
Carmacks Copper Mine: is located 192 km north of Whitehorse, Yukon. The Project site is 8 km west of the Yukon River and approximately 38 km northwest of the town of
Carmacks. The project is on Crown land administered by the Yukon Government and it lies in Little Salmon Carmacks First Nation and Selkirk First Nation traditional territory. The average annual precipitation is approximately 339 mm with one third falling as snow.
The Carmacks Copper Project will be developed as an open-pit mine with an acid heap leach and a solvent extraction/electrowinning (SX/EW) process facility producing, on average, approximately 14,500 tonnes of LME Grade A cathode copper annually.
The mining operation is designed to produce an average 1.73 million tonnes of ore per year or approximately 28,400 tonnes (ore and waste) per day on a seven day per week, 24 hours per day operation.
Ore will be hauled by truck and dumped directly into the primary, secondary and tertiary crusher circuit. The crushed product will first be agglomerated with sulphuric acid and water and then conveyed to a lined valley fill leach pad.
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