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In addition to the ore broken, 50,400 tons of talus were removed from the benches and
were trucked to the stockpile at the mill. A feature of removing this talus was the sun’s
action in freeing frozen ore in unexpected quantities.

All the ore moved in 1953, with the exception of crude, was delivered to an ore bin
at the base of the hill by means of a flight conveyor system, operating in a semi-circular
at steel chute 2,602.2 ft. in length, and at an average angle of 32 degrees between elevations
of 6,184 and 4,850 ft. The ore was moved from the working place to the head of the
chute using two bulldozers and one Drot bullclam shovel mounted on International Harvester
crawler tractors. Dump trucks delivered the ore to a stockpile adjacent to the mill site,
3.4 miles distant. To the end of the year 73,257 tons of ore had been trucked to the
stockpile at the mill.

Orders have been placed for an aerial tramway, a distance of 14,950 ft. in length
from the mine site to the mill. This will have a capacity of 100 tons per hour. It is hoped
that this equipment will be delivered and installed by September 30th, next year, allowing
us to extend our mining season.

Ore Reserves

Ore exposed in the adit and in open pit work provide grounds for classifying appreciable
tonnages as positive ore. Conservative extensions to these positive blocks provide a means
of measuring probable ore, whereas surface exposures and limited drilling support estimates
of reasonably assured ore. It must be emphasized that the economic limits of the deposit
are not delimited. True width may well average 450 ft. over a length of at least 1,200 ft.,
and asbestos bearing outcrops have been mapped along a length of approximately 3,000 ft.
For these reasons the estimate tabulated below is indicative only of what may be expected
as a result of the limited exploratory work achieved to date.

t Positive orewss = eee 2 ore ie ene 3,139,055 tons
ProbableiOres eet Sues eee feet 2,748,930 tons
Reasonably assured Ore 1,144,640 tons

7,032,625 tons

Transportation

} During the year, the fleet of vehicles was increased to include six bulldozers, two
overhead loaders, two road graders, ten heavy-duty ore trucks, six trailer tractors with seven
34-foot semi-trailer vans, eight second-hand covered trucks, a small bus, a car, and six
miscellaneous small trucks. The company’s transport division now provides transportation
for fibre from the mill to Whitehorse, with a return haul of coal and other supplies.

The Government of British Columbia undertook major reconstruction of the road
from the mill-site to the B.C. border and your company rebuilt the remaining two miles to
the junction with the Alcan Highway near Watson Lake. The company constructed a 160 ft.
Bailey bridge across the Blue River and contributed to the general road program.

Construction

(1) Mill
As noted above, an experimental mill was completed in January and this was sub-
sequently expanded into a temporary unit which is referred to as the “talus mill” by the