Contaminated water storage at Victoria Gold mine may be leaking: Yukon government

Contaminated water storage at Victoria Gold mine may be leaking: Yukon government

Yukon News


According to a Jan. 3 update on its response to the situation at the mine, which has been out of production since a June 2024 landslide breached its heap leach facility, the Yukon government states that it was informed about the possible leak on Dec. 28, 2024. That information came from PricewaterhouseCoopers, the receiver that a court placed in charge of the mine to oversee clean-up from the landslide.   Click here to read the story.

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