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 Major Mines and Technical Services 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)