The Whitehall Ledger - Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana

Demolition work is continuing in the mill area at the Barrick Golden Sunlight mine in Whitehall.

At a Community Transition Advisory Committee meeting last week, Mine General Manager Chuck Buus reported a significant amount of demolition has taken place including the removal of the mills and cutting of concrete pedestals. The work is to ready the facility for the Tailings Reprocessing Project. Buus told committee members in his opinion the permitting is going well, and they should have a date for a public scoping meeting by the January CTAC meeting.

Buus had good news on the safety front w...