What time frame are we looking at?
From today's PR...
Over the past month our crew has also begun the initial preparation work for the construction of the Big Bend Bypass Raise into the Black Channel. Our engineering team has assembled a plan that entails driving a crosscut for 170 feet off of the main tunnel haulageway and building an inclined raise of about 150 feet from the new crosscut to connect to the upper workings. After the raise is punched through and timbered, it will contain a manway, a materials slide with a skip for moving materials up to the work area, and an ore shoot. Gravels in the upper channel will then be mined, slushed back to the raise, and then collected in the ore shoot. A train of ore cars will be positioned under the shoot by way of a turnout off of the main tunnel haulageway to be loaded for transport out of the mine.
Fraser River Project
After extensive discussions with the both the Archeology Branch and the Heritage Branch of British Columba's Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations (the "Branch"), the Company has reluctantly agreed to undertake an additional survey, a Heritage Impact Assessment ("HIA"), of our work site area. This is to satisfy the Branch that our mining project will not disturb any sites within our work area that might potentially be deemed to have any historical significance. We note this is different from the Archeological Overview Assessment ("AOA") completed in October, and which was focused on potential archeological sites that pre-date the modern era. The HIA survey is instead focused on potential heritage sites that might be considered to be of historical significance since the year 1858. This work is most often undertaken by a professional historian rather than an archeologist. As before, the Company believes and expects this new survey will again conclude that our mining site poses no threat to any areas of historic or archeological significance, but we will nevertheless undertake the survey to put this matter to rest and get on with the work at hand as expeditiously as possible.
Trying to figure out how long it will take to accomplish each of the above highlighted points in today's PR. Additionally, will freezing weather have any affect on either?
TIA
