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Golden Eagle Booted of Jerritt Canyon Mill site

Contractor booted from Jerritt Canyon

ELKO — Yukon-Nevada Gold Corp. fired contractor Golden Eagle International today as mill operator at the Jerritt Canyon Mine north of Elko.

“They had an hour to gather their personal stuff,� Yukon-Nevada spokeswoman Nicole Sanches said at 5 p.m. today.

She said more information would come later when the company issues a press release. Golden Eagle Chief Operating Officer Blane Wilson said this evening his company also would issue a press release.

Wilson said earlier this month that his company had 82 employees at Jerritt Canyon.

Canadian-based Yukon-Nevada, which operates Jerritt Canyon under the Queenstake Resources subsidiary, had contracted last year with Golden Eagle to improve the mill so it could be restarted.

Yukon-Nevada had shut down the mine and the mill last August and laid off 400 people at that time.

The mill was restarted in late March and ran until May 30, when Queenstake shut down the roaster circuit on the order of the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection.

NDEP had allowed Queenstake to restart the mill on the condition that new controls for mercury air emissions would be installed by May 30.

The company said then that parts were on order for the new controls but hadn’t come in yet.

By Adella Harding