In Hudbay’s year end 2022 report President Peter Kukielski updated information on drilling in their tailings facilities…..

“We also completed confirmatory exploration drilling at our Flin Flon tailings facility in 2022 which indicated higher grades than reported from our historical mill records.  This facility holds in excess of 100 million tonnes of tailings that have been deposited over the span of 90 years.  We plan to complete metallurgical test work on the Fin Flon tails to assess the metallurgical recovery.  Furthermore our Anderson tailings facility in Snow Lake contains significant amounts of gold deposited over many decades.  Given our enhanced gold processing capacity in Snow Lake we are in the early stages of evaluating a similar opportunity to reprocess the Anderson tailings as well.”

Kukielski also noted in the fourth quarter their Manitoba operations saw a six percent increase in Lalor’s ore production compared to the third quarter of 2022 and the Lalor mine continues to ramp up following the transition of Flin Flon employees to Snow Lake which also reduced the reliance on higher cost contractors.