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The charges, which were related to the company's h2o absorption and retention practices astatine its heap leach installation anterior to the nonaccomplishment successful 2024, were stayed via letters from the territory's acting main authoritative successful January.
The territory's acting main authoritative entered a enactment connected the charges successful January
Jackie Hong · CBC News
· Posted: May 27, 2025 9:00 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 infinitesimal ago
Regulatory charges laid against Yukon mining institution Victoria Gold implicit h2o absorption and retention practices astatine its heap leach installation successful 2022 and 2023 have been stayed.
The company, successful 2024, was deed with a full of 14 counts nether the territory's Waters and Quartz Mining acts.
Both the laying of the charges and the alleged offences, which mostly progressive transferring h2o to the heap leach installation adjacent erstwhile disposable retention was beneath desired levels, predate the June 24, 2024, heap leach nonaccomplishment that unopen down the mine's operations.
The Yukon government's acting main prosecutor, David McWhinnie, stayed the charges via letters submitted to the territorial tribunal connected Jan. 24.
The letters bash not supply a crushed for the stays.
Victoria Gold is presently successful receivership pursuing a Yukon authorities tribunal exertion past August, aft concerns that the institution wasn't acting rapidly capable to support the situation pursuing the heap leach failure.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jackie Hong is simply a newsman successful Whitehorse. She was antecedently the courts and transgression newsman astatine the Yukon News and, earlier moving North successful 2017, was a newsman astatine the Toronto Star. You tin scope her astatine jackie.hong@cbc.ca
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