Early workers tended to mine the visible gold sections of the pay shoots, i.e. pick the "eyes" out of the mine.
Significant early production milestones were: in 1965 Falconbridge acquired the property and increased gold production to an average of approximately 45 kg per month;
in 1993 Kinross took over the property and built an enlarged Carbon-in-Leach ("CIL") plant with capacity of approximately 3,800 tonnes per day ("tpd") to treat an old tailings dump together with the run-of-mine ore. Gold production reached a level of 110 kg per month during the tailings treatment years from 1995 to 2007.
To date in excess of 1 million ounces of gold have been produced from the property.