Tailings Reprocessing Project At Golden Sunlight Mine Opened

WHITEHALL, MT - Barrick Gold Corporation reported that the Tailings Reprocessing Project at Barrick’s end-of-life Golden Sunlight Mine is open. The opening of the facility is the culmination of work over a year that has already created more than 75 jobs. It has the potential to generate tens of millions of dollars in tax revenue and benefits for the state over the next decade, while removing a source of possible water pollution from the mine site.

The facility will reprocess the ground rock, known as tailings, from which gold was previously extracted in the Golden Sunlight mills. The focus will be on removing and concentrating sulfur (iron pyrite) to be sold to and used in gold production by Barrick operated and majority owned Nevada Gold Mines, the largest gold producing complex in the world. The concentrated sulfur is not only valuable, but its removal will also eliminate a source of potential groundwater contamination. After reprocessing, the remaining benign material will be backfilled into the Mineral Hill pit.