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Snip mine start up on target

TERRACE — Cominco will start operating its Snip gold

month, says project manager Merlyn Royea,

workers now at the site north: of Stewart are finishing:up

should be processed. shortly thereafter, oo

The mine will process 300 tonnes of ore a day and employ just under 140 peo- ple. es

At official. opening planned for sometime in lu. ly, said Roya, |

“There won't ‘be any kind ‘of opening *now. IVll-.be:a smooth transition,” he. said of activity at the site this month.

“Construction is finishing right about on schedule and we don’t have the final costs in yet, but it should be under budget,'’ said Royea of the estimated $65 million pro- ject. Production efforts this month end four years of con- centrated development at the site. Construction of milling facilities began in the middle of last year.

Miners have already been stockpiling ore in anticipa- tion of operation of the con- centrator and milling facilities.

The workforce was once estimated to be 150 people but that has changed to bet- ween 135 and 140, said Rovyea.

The: concentrator will ran 24 haurs a day on shifts of 10 hours each while there will be two 10-hour shifts each day in the mine.

Workers will spend four weeks at the site and two weeks out. They're being flown in from Vancouver and from Smithers to a near- by airstrip.

The mine is the second one to open in the precious- ; mineral rich Iskut area. : Skyline Gold opened its mine in 1988 but closed it last year when reserves didn’t match anticipated projections.

Cominco owns 60 per cent of the property and Prime “Resources the remaining 40 per cent.

Material for the mine was flown in from nearby Wrangell, Alaska, or shipped in on a large hovercraft from Wrangell.

mine in the Iskut Valley this:

He said 20°: construction:

work : and: that. .some . ore.{:

“We also expect.the decision * to be signficant because of the”

warth of the area. There’s a lot of stake,”' said Conte.”

_ Tagish’s request ‘will be the ;

third time one of the kind’ has

been asked for, said gold com-

missioner Denis Lieutard.

4and although. it has happen- ed _before,.. ‘‘the. magnitude. of.

the reserves. heigtitens” the: ins.

terest,” he said..

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McDonald's withdrawats from.

the account the ticket ‘money was deposited into, and he con-

tinued signing - although he. didn’t know where the money

was going.

Dave - Shirey, a 1990 Caledonia graduate who work- ed with McDonald from beginn-

ing to end, said McDonald tried -’

to book performers for the Ter- race show right up until a few days before Dec, 15,

Randy Charach, of Fun Time Express in: Vancouver,. said McDonald tried to book three performers from his company.

Charach said the cheque McDonald sent bounced and therefore the company refused to do the show, He said his per- formers did one show in Prince

Impaired numbers rise

TERRACE — RCMP statistics over the holiday season show drivers aren’t getting the message about drinking and driving.

Police stopped nearly 2,800 vehicles. at roadblocks and charged a-total of 19. drivers with - impaired driving during the Dec. 8 to Jan.'J Christmas Counterattack.

That brought the 1990 total of drunk driving charges to 238 — a substantial. increase over the previous year’s total. Last year’s Counterattack netted 16 impaired drivers.

Terrace RCMP Cpi. Gary Moritz said local drivers’ New

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ing disputes are one page long by in this case, it will be longer, Lieutard, - nts also expected the decision will be appealed to: the B.C,

Supreme Court by the company which loses out.

Last. year, Prime Resources, which i is:28 per-cent owned by

. Corona, estimated . cthe:gold:in- -- the’ ~ ground at” 34° ounces’ per :. tonne over 6.49, million | tonnes. es

Rupert, but that ‘one. v was, ar- ranged by~ the: ‘Community Enrichment Society — nat by McDonald. _.

- Both Shirey .and. ‘Charach

- have been interviewed by the. RCMP.

Mickey Bromley,.a local day care teacher who sold’ around $2,500 worth. of tickets for McDonald, says he quit selling

- near the end of November as it

became more and more difficult to collect his commission from McDonald..

Although: he said McDonald had told him he wasn't sure how he was going to pay for the per- formers, Bromley said he never found out the show was cancell- ed until he tried. to take his daughter to it and was turned

Year’s. Eve performance are also discouraging. In the first hours of the new year, police ar- rested three local men and charged them with impaired driving,

“That's . significantly - high considering the Christmas Counterattack campaign -is™in

full-swing and the media

coverage ‘encouraging people

- not to drink and drive,’’ Moritz

said, ‘“We're hoping this is not going to. be the trend for the year,"” =

More than 500 Motor Vehicte Act charges were laid during this year’s holiday, blitz, with 157 written warnings being writ- ten.

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; ther staking. disputes” in. the: “15 » square kilometre Eskay Creek’area but none of the signficance of .the one filed by Tagish Resources: : They revolve around multiple stakings on, property, ‘and there. is a freeze on any. further stak- ing until those e resolved...

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There were no deaths in motor vehicle accidents, but !1 people were injured in seven ac- cidents. There were 72 other collisions i in which no one was injured.

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