Business Rey Gold ore from Eskay mine THE NORTHWEST’S newest gold mine has shipped its first batch of ore to Japan and is soon to send another to a Quebec smelter. Homestake Canada’s Eskay Creek mine is the culmination of more than six years of explora- tion and development ‘involving several changes of ownership. ‘The initial underground mining to produce the 5,240 metric tonne shipment to Japan went very well, says Homestake Canada president Ronald Parker. ‘The ore was trucked from the Eskay Creek area up Hwy37 and loaded onto a freighter at Stewart. - Shipments bound for Quebec will be trucked south to a facility beside the CGed Forest Products mil] at Kitwanga where they'll be loaded onto rail cars. . Arrow Transport is the trucking company hired to ship the ore from the minesite and Stewart Bulk Terminals in Stewart is han- dling the loading onto ships. Approximately 100 people are employed on-site with another 10-15 involved in the trucking and loading end. Construction began last spring with a road to the mine location and work on the mine itself began in May 1994, ‘It was a very quick project,’’ said Parker. ‘‘Essentially we were complete by mid-October and at that time started mining into the ore body.”’ The mine was brought in under the projected $75 million con- struction budget, Homestake, which is operating the mine through its ownership of Prime Resources, estimates there’s enough ore for approxi- mately 10 years. It expects to, produce, 90,000, ,. oy a 1: e meric tonnes of gold © and. silver | bearing“ ore in the first year and 110,000 metric tonnes a year thereafter, said Parker. Workers are being drawn from the area and from other places. Those from outside the area are being flown to the Bob Quinn air- strip beside Hwy37 by Smithers- based Central Mountain Airlines. Out & About Food Safe award given THE NORTHERN Motor Inn has received the first ever Food Safe Excellence certificate in the Skeena region. Restaurant operators must demonstrate safe food handling practices, and complete a Food- Safe training course to be eligible. The health ministry program ‘recognizes superior food handling and provides stickers and promo- tional material to businesses that qualify for the certificates, Food chain recognized OVERWAITEA HAS won a fed- eral environmental award. The Environmental Award for Busincss for 1994 was given on the basis of a company’s efforis to reduce waste and to encourage recycling. ’ The company along with others belonging to a grocery store asso- ciation and pop producers are now working on a plan to intra- duce bottle depots in the north- . west. Nyce elected A GITWINKSIHLKW tesident has been clected to the board of directors of the Native Brother- hood of B.C., an organization which represents native interests in the fishing industry. _ Gilluctier Jacob Nyce is the first Nisga’a to sit on the board and is one of four northern resi-: denis on the | seven-member: - board. TERRACE STANDARD The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 18, 1995 - AQ And never the twain shall meet. But you can meet Twain. And Tolstoy. And Hemingway. They’re on the shelves at your library. Get acquainted. 638-8177 Terrace Public Library 4610 Park Avenue shipped It’s a 61km trip from the aistrip along the Iskut Valley road and then south to the mine site. The non-union workforce oper- ates on a two-weck in and two- week out rotation. Maintenance of the road is being done by the Dease Lake- based Tahltan Native Develop- ment Corporation. This is the third northwest gold mine in which Homestake has or had an interest. . Tt acquired the Golden Bear mine outside of Dease Lake which it subsequently sold. 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