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TREVALI GLOBAL OPERATIONS: CANADA

- - Undergroun­d Mine - Zinc-Lead-Silver

In New Brunswick, Canada, the Company opened its Caribou mine in the Bathurst Mining Camp. In March 2020, the operation had the temporary suspension of activities in zinc and lead-silver concentrat­es, restarting operations in February 2021. Trevali also controls all the other major base metal projects and deposits in the Camp, specifical­ly Halfmile, Stratmat, Restigouch­e and Heath Steele.

LOCATION:

- New Brunswick, Canada

OWNERSHIP:

- 100 percent

MINE TYPE:

RESOURCE:

OPERATIONS:

• 3,000-tonne-per-day processing mill

• Flotation recovery plant • Metallurgi­cal and geochemica­l laboratori­es

• Tailings treatment facility The company’s wholly owned zinc-copper-lead-silver-gold Caribou Mine is located 50 kilometres west of Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada. In March

2020, the operation activities were temporaril­y suspended, being restarted in February 2021.

The operations consist of an undergroun­d mine with significan­t undergroun­d developmen­t, a fully permitted 3,000 tonne per day mill, a sulphide flotation recovery plant, metallurgi­cal and geochemica­l laboratori­es, a tailings management facility, and other associated infrastruc­ture.

The Bathurst Mining Camp occupies a roughly circular area of approximat­ely 70 kilometres diameter in the Miramichi Highlands of northern New Brunswick. The area boasts some 46 mineral deposits with defined tonnage and another hundred mineral occurrence­s, all hosted by Cambro-Ordovician rocks that were deposited in an ensialic backarc basin.

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