The Northern Miner August 6 2018 Issue

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Agnico’s Sean Boyd says Meliadine to produce in Q2 2019 INTERVIEW

| High-grade project part of operating platform in Nunavut BY TRISH SAYWELL tsaywell@northernminer.com RANKIN INLET, NUNAVUT

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gnico Eagle Mines (TSX: AEM; NYSE: AEM) hosted a site visit in late June to its advanced-stage Meliadine gold project in Nunavut, which is expected to start production in the second quarter of 2019 — about three months sooner than planned. Meliadine is Agnico’s largest gold deposit in terms of resources (3.1 million measured and indicated oz. and 2.7 million inferred oz.) and could produce 170,000 oz. gold in 2019 and 385,000 oz. gold in 2020. The high-grade project, 25 km from Rankin Inlet near the western shore of Hudson Bay, is part of a strategic operating platform that the gold miner is building in Nunavut, where its Meadowbank mine, 300 km west of Hudson Bay, is expected to produce 220,000 oz. gold this year, and where it is also developing Amaruq, a satellite deposit 50 km northwest of Meadowbank. Sean Boyd, Agnico’s vice-chairman and CEO, and The Northern Miner’s Mining Person of the Year for 2017, spoke with senior staff writer Trish Saywell during the tour about the company’s northern busiSee SEAN BOYD / 2

Continental Gold CEO Ari Sussman (right) speaks with visitors near the Yaragua tunnel entrance at the Buritica gold project in Antioquia, Colombia.   PHOTO BY DAVID PERRI

Continental Gold cruising to production at Buritica SITE VISIT

| Fledgling producer brings modern gold mining to Colombia ating standards,” he says. “We “WE’RE HANDILY BY DAVID PERRI will double Colombia’s legal gold dperri@northernminer.com production and begin production BEATING THE BURITICA, COLOMBIA in the short-term.” BUDGET FOR uritica is the flagship mining Restrepo, who hails from the project for Colombia,” says regional capital of Medellin, 70 DEVELOPMENT Mateo Restrepo, president km southeast of the project, em- METRES PER of Continental Gold (TSX: CNL; phasizes that for Colombia, BuUS-OTC: CGOOF). The project is ritica represents much more than MONTH, EVERY more important here than it might minerals. MONTH.” PM40069240

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be almost anywhere else. “It will be the first large-scale, mechanized gold mine in the country, with high international oper-

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“Colombia is in a post-conflict scenario,” he says. Violence and insecurity related to political groups, drug trafficking and illegal mining plagued South America’s second most populous nation for decades, until very recently. In 2016, the government reached a peace agreement with FARC, the largest armed political faction, increasing security and stability in much of the country. “The state needs to establish and maintain a presence in areas that were previously controlled by outlaws and armed groups,” he says. As such, the authorities see Continental’s flagship project as a strategic development to help keep Colombia’s hard-won peace and deliver prosperity to rural communities. Buritica is one of dozens of

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projects across the infrastructure spectrum that the government has designated as strategically important, including several greenfield mineral projects. Buritica is the only one under construction, Restrepo says. Success here could serve as a symbol for an increasingly stable and secure Colombia. The project also stands out for its scale, ranking as the eighth largest gold find in the past decade, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. Mineable resources stand at more than 9 million oz. gold across all categories, which See CONTINENTAL / 6

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