Victoria Gold heap leach failure
Eagle Gold project: licensing documents
The Eagle Gold project is a gold property located 85 kilometres from Mayo on the Traditional territory of the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun. The project is an open pit mine that uses cyanide heap leaching techniques to extract gold.
For information on the status of the site or to access licensing documents, email the Mineral Resources Branch at emr-qml@yukon.ca.
For information on water licences and related inspection reports on the site, view Yukon Water Board's online registry Waterline.
For information on the heap leach failure and inspector's directions issued as a result, visit the Victoria Gold heap leach failure web portal.
The following documents are only available in English. We’ll update this page as we create and modify licensing documents.
Documents we're reviewing
- Cyanide management plan (January 2022; 9,575 KB)
- Water Management Plan Version 2024-01 (April 2024; 13,135 KB)
- Heap Leach Process Facilities Emergency Response Plan Version 2024-01 (April 2024; 2,648 KB)
Quartz mining licences
- Quartz mining licence QML-0011 amendment (March 2016; 518.31 KB)
- Amendment to Eagle Gold project quartz mining licence QML-0011 (March 2016; 99.23 KB)
- Quartz mining licence QML-0011 schedule C amendment (October 2017; 1,051.08 KB)
- Amendment to Eagle Gold Project quartz mining licence QML-0011 (February 2018; 33.35 KB)
- Quartz mining licence QML-0011 consolidated to April 17, 2018 (April 2018; 641.82 KB)
- Quartz mining licence QML-0011 amendment (May 2020; 642.32 KB)
- Quartz mining licence QML-0011 amendment (June 2022; 607 KB)
- Quartz mining licence QML-0011 amendment (Jan 2024; 360 KB)
Correspondence
- Environmental protection plans and audit implementation (December 2013; 970.67 KB)
- Regulatory path forward for quartz mining licence QML-0011: Eagle Gold project (December 2015; 47.16 KB)
- Approval of construction activities (August 2017; 669.91 KB)
- Approval of plans – Eagle Gold Mine, Yukon (April 2018; 62.83 KB)
- Environmental audit deferral letter - Eagle Gold Mine (June 2018; 25 KB)
- Approval of cyanide management plan (June 2019; 41.84 KB)
- Approval of plans (June 2019; 60.23 KB)
- Amendment cover letter - Eagle Gold Mine (June 2022; 53 KB)
- Approval of plans - Eagle Gold Mine (December 2022; 511 KB)
Development and operational plans
Surface mining plans
- General site plan – stage 1 construction plan: version 2013-01 (September 2013; 1,673.00 KB)
- Mine development, operations and material management plan: version 2017-01 (July 2017; 22,113.0 KB)
- Road construction plan: version 2020-02 (April 2022; 6,190 KB)
Underground mining plans
There are no documents at this time.
Processing facilities plans
- Heap leach and process facilities plan: version 2017-01 (December 2017; 7,421.11 KB)
- Cyanide management plan: version 2019-01 (June 2019; 9,420.93 KB)
- Heap leach facility operation, maintenance and surveillance manual: version 2020-01 (January 2020; 203 KB)
- Heap leach facility contingency water management plan: version 2020-01 (January 2020; 3,417 KB)
- Heap leach facility detailed design (November 2017; 238,084.0 KB)
- Stage 1 heap leach facility preparatory works plan: version 2017-01 (October 2017; 4,188.83 KB)
- Heap leach facility foundation improvement plan: version 2017-01 (July 2017; 1,041.86 KB)
- Eagle Gold Mine: heap leach foundation preparation (October 2017; 447.09 KB)
- Cyanide destruction column studies report (March 2014; 584.40 KB)
- Heap Leach Facility, 2023 Annual Water Balance Modelling Report (March 2024; 4,688 KD)
- Letter - Eagle Gold Mine Site - HLF Operations and Cyanide Management Desktop Review (January 2023; 552 KB
- Eagle Gold Heap Leach Facility And Cyanide Management Review (July 2022; 8,508 KB
Mine waste management plans
- Frozen materials management plan: version 2017-01 (July 2017; 9,265.90 KB)
- Report of metallurgical test work (December 2013; 14,887.18 KB)
- Waste rock storage areas design report (January 2019; 29,683 KB)
- Geochemical characterization of proposed excavation areas and borrow sources (May 2013; 8,034.81 KB)
- Waste rock and overburden facilities management plan: Version 2022-01 (April 2024; 40,981 KB)
Health and safety plans
- Explosives management plan: version 2017-01 (July 2017; 1,321.13 KB)
- Emergency response plan: version 2017-01 (July 2017; 1,910 KB)
Environmental and socio-economic plans
- Geochemical characterization (March 2014; 20,790 KB)
- Geochemical source term prediction: model description and results (June 2014; 9,984.53 KB)
- Heritage resource protection plan: version 2017-01 (July 2017; 13,917.24 KB)
- Solid waste and hazardous materials management plan: version 2017-02 (July 2017; 8,979.87 KB)
- Wildlife protection plan: version 2017-01 (July 2017; 15,337.10 KB)
- Dust control plan: version 2017-02 (July 2017; 1,935.15 KB)
- Traffic management plan: version 2017-01 (July 2017; 1,199.92 KB)
- Construction and operations water management plan: version 2017-01 (July 2017; 7,074.35 KB)
- Spill Response Plan, Version 2022-01 (April 2024; 13,112 KB)
- Environmental Monitoring, Surveillance and Adaptive Management Plan, Version 2020-01 (April 2024; 6,993 KB)
Reclamation and closure plans
- Reclamation and Closure Plan: version 2022-01 (April 2024; 32,919 KB)
Financial security
- Final security determination (December 2019; 54.61 KB)
- Financial security determination summary table (December 2019; 62.35 KB)
- Financial security determination and reasons for decision (June 2022; 421 KB)
- Financial security determination and reasons for decision (April 2024; 452 KB)
Correspondence
Forms of security (July 2022; 602 KB)
Reporting and inspections
Annual reporting
- 2013 annual report (March 2014; 164.27 KB)
- 2014 annual report (March 2015; 3,663.56 KB)
- 2015 annual report (April 2016; 3,308.51 KB)
- 2016 annual report (March 2017; 47,908.30 KB)
- 2017 annual report (March, 2018; 6,2091 KB)
- 2018 annual report (March 2019; 435.30 KB)
- 2019 annual report (May 2020; 1,056,858.04 KB)
- 2020 annual report (April 2021; 742,989.82 KB)
- 2021 annual report (April 2022; 184,601 KB)
- 2022 annual report April 2023; 256,855 KB)
- 2023 annual report April 2024; 245,767 KB)
Physical reporting
- 2018 annual physical inspection (December 2018; 6,017.59 KB)
- 2019 annual physical inspection (October 2019; 6,063.1 KB)
- 2020 annual physical inspection (December 2020; 13,264.4 KB)
- 2021 annual physical inspection (December 2021; 7,386 KB)
- 2022 annual physical inspection (December 2022; 14,544 KB)
- 2023 annual physical inspection (December 2023; 11,159 KB)
Mine development reporting
There are no documents at this time.
Environmental reporting
- 2020 environmental audit (December 2020; 1,949.6 KB)
- 2022 environmental audit (December 2022; 4,416 KB)
- Environmental characterization report (March 2015; 4,471.08 KB)
- Environmental characterization report (July 2020; 8,848.1 KB)
- Environmental characterization report (March 2022; 8,658 KB)
- Quarterly wildlife report fall 2017 (September 2017; 103.86 KB)
- Quarterly wildlife report winter 2017 (December 2017; 162.68 KB)
- Quarterly wildlife report winter 2018 (March 2018; 115.22 KB)
- Quarterly wildlife report spring 2018 (June 2018; 294.16 KB)
- Quarterly wildlife report summer 2018 (August 2018; 283.69 KB)
- Quarterly wildlife report fall 2018 (December 2018; 79.06 KB)
- Quarterly wildlife report winter 2019 (March 2019; 143.60 KB)
- Quarterly wildlife report spring 2019 (May 2019; 206.62 KB)
- Quarterly wildlife report summer 2019 (September 2019; 192.39 KB)
- Quarterly wildlife report fall 2019 (December 2019; 226.79 KB)
- Quarterly wildlife report winter 2020 (March 2020; 152 KB)
- Quarterly wildlife report spring 2020 (June 2020; 267 KB)
- Quarterly wildlife report summer 2020 (September 2020; 274 KB)
- Quarterly wildlife report fall 2020 (December 2020; 193 KB)
- Quarterly wildlife report winter 2021 (March 2021; 223 KB)
- Quarterly wildlife report spring 2021 (June 2021; 267 KB)
- Quarterly wildlife report summer 2021 (September 2021; 247 KB)
- Quarterly wildlife report fall 2021 (December 2021; 250 KB)
- Quarterly wildlife report winter 2022 (March 2022; 262 KB)
- Quarterly wildlife report spring 2022 (June 2022; 302 KB)
- Quarterly wildlife report summer 2022 (September 2022; 286 KB)
- Quarterly wildlife report fall 2022 (December 2022; 195 KB)
- Quarterly wildlife report winter 2023 (March 2023; 189 KB)
- Quarterly wildlife report spring 2023 (June 2022; 183 KB)
- Quarterly wildlife report summer 2023 (September 2022; 237 KB)
- Quarterly wildlife report fall 2023 (December 2022; 146 KB)
- Quarterly wildlife report winter 2024 (March 2023; 276 KB)
Socio-economic reporting
There are no documents at this time.