The Minto mine is a copper-gold mine on Selkirk First Nation Category A Settlement Land. It’s located 240 kilometres northwest of Whitehorse.
For information on the status of the site or to access licensing documents, email the Mineral Resources Branch at [email protected].
The following documents are only available in English. We’ll update this page as we create and modify licensing documents.
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Quartz mining licences
- Quartz mining license amendment QML-0001 cover letter (June 2022; 126 KB)
- Quartz mining license amendement QML-0001 (June 2022; 416 KB)
Correspondence
Revocation of restricted operating conditions (May 2023; 45 KB)
Development and operational plans
Surface mining plans
There are no documents at this time.
Underground mining plans
- Underground mine development and operations plan amendment for Minto South (March 2022; 25,781 KB)
- Ground control management plan for underground operations: revision 2021-1 (June 2021; 6,940 KB)
Processing facilities plans
Mill operations plan (January 2018; 3,812 KB)
Mine waste management plans
- Main pit design revision (February 2018; 2,085 KB)
- Tailings management plan revision (January 2018; 1,333 KB)
- Waste rock and overburden management plan for phase 5 and 6 expansion (November 2014; 3,330 KB)
- Waste rock and overburden management plan for phase 7 expansion (January 2018; 1,732 KB)
Health and safety plans
Mine emergency response plan (January 2021; 1,406 KB)
Environmental and socio-economic plans
- Explosives management plan (June 2011; 1,468 KB)
- Sediment and erosion control plan (April 2014; 430 KB)
- Wildlife protection plan (April 2014; 8,280 KB)
- Heritage resources protection plan (April 2014; 2,559 KB)
- Waste management plan (November 2017; 4,748 KB)
- Environmental monitoring, surveillance and reporting plan (January 2018; 24,608 KB)
- Operations adaptive management plan (January 2018; 625 KB)
- Spill contingency plan (December 2022; 2,330 KB)
- Minto mine socioeconomic monitoring program framework (July 2014; 645.81 KB)
- Letter of agreement regarding the Minto mine socioeconomic monitoring program framework (August 2018; 545.66 KB)
- Minto mine socioeconomic monitoring program amended 2018 (July 2018; 950.33 KB)
Reclamation and closure plans
- Reclamation and closure plan: 2018–01 (February 2018; 92,703.0 KB)
- Appendices (February 2018; 265,813.0 KB)
Financial security
- Determination of financial security (January 2022; 466 KB)
- Determination of financial security reasons for decision (January 2022; 287 KB)
Correspondence
Financial security payment proposal and restricted operations (September 2022; 143 KB)
Reporting and inspections
Annual reporting
- 2010 annual report (March 2011; 45,288.654 KB)
- 2011 annual report (March 2012; 43,512.562 KB)
- 2012 annual report (March 2013; 22,407.750 KB)
- 2013 annual report (March 2014; 30,633 KB)
- 2014 annual report (March 2015; 57,516 KB)
- 2015 annual report (April 2016; 123,999 KB)
- 2016 annual report (March 2017; 8,449.09 KB)
- 2016 annual report appendices (March 2017; 163,277.5 KB)
- 2017 annual report (March 2018; 58,984 KB)
- 2018 annual report (March 2019; 66,392 KB KB)
- 2019 annual report (March 2020; 65,925.65 KB)
- 2020 annual report (April 2021; 150,376.44 KB)
- 2021 annual report (March 2021; 131,174 KB)
Physical reporting
- 2012 annual physical inspection report (November 2012; 26,771.36 KB)
- 2013 annual physical inspection report (July 2013; 27,740.65 KB)
- 2014 annual physical inspection report (August 2014; 9,691.37 KB)
- 2014 geotechnical annual review (November 2014; 10,529.08 KB)
- 2015 annual geotechnical review (August 2015; 12,679.85 KB)
- 2016 annual geotechnical review (November 2016; 15,750.82 KB)
- 2017 annual geotechnical review (August 2017; 25,825.18 KB)
- 2017 annual underground geotechnical review (August 2017; 583.04 KB)
- 2018 annual geotechnical review (August 2018; 13,056.13 KB)
- 2019 annual geotechnical review (August 2019; 33,804 KB)
- 2020 annual geotechnical review (June 2020; 3,466KB)
- 2021 annual geotechnical review (October 2021; 16,700 KB)
Mine development reporting
There are no documents at this time.
Environmental reporting
There are no documents at this time.
Socio-economic reporting
- Socioeconomic monitoring program: Minto mine – 2014 annual report executive summary (November 2016; 271.08 KB)
- Socioeconomic monitoring program: Minto mine – 2014 annual report (November 2016; 2,561.04 KB)
- Socioeconomic monitoring program: Minto mine – 2015 annual report executive summary (July 2018; 1,267.75 KB)
- Socioeconomic monitoring program: Minto mine – 2015 annual report (July 2018; 5,152.06 KB)
- Socioeconomic monitoring program: Minto mine – 2015 appendix A: consolidated socioeconomic conditions monitored (August 2018; 268.51 KB)
- Socio-economic monitoring program annual report 2016 to 2018 (July 2021; 12,639.15 KB)
- Spill contingency plan (December 2022; 2,330 KB)