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The Division Mountain coal deposit is located 90 km north-northwest of Whitehorse in southwestern Yukon Territory, Canada. Access is by a 31 km four-wheel drive road leaving the Klondike Highway at Braeburn. The main area of exploration interest lies 20 km west of the highway and parallels the Yukon Energy Corporation electrical transmission grid. This point is 280 km by road from a year-round tidewater port at Skagway, Alaska.
Exploration to date has outlined a total measured resource of 52.5 million tonnes of High Volatile "B" bituminous coal, of which 47.2 million tonnes falls
within the leases controlled By Cash Minerals Ltd.
Division Mountain will be developed into an open pit mine producing 240,000 tonnes of unwashed coal per year over a 20-year period.
The reserve will be mined using a truck/shovel surface mining method. A backhoe excavator will strip and mine coal, loading into a fleet of mining-specific trucks. Waste will be hauled to an out-of pit dump.
Coal will be hauled to a nearby sizing and stockpiling facility, prior to truck haulage to a 50 megawatt (MW, net), mine-mouth generating station power plant.
Location Summary
- Nearest Landmark: BRAEBURN
- Distance from Landmark: 20Km
- Direction from Landmark: WEST
- Latitude: 61deg 20Min N
- Longitude: 136deg 5Min W
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Ownership Summary
- Name: Pitchblack Resources Limited
- Interest: 100%
- Note: Public
Reference:15 Feb 12