Mining Lease 0800 - Mouska Mine (Cadillac (Rouyn-Noranda)) | gold mine

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This is one of two mining lease areas for the Mouska Gold Mine. The Mouska Gold Mine lies in the southern part of the Abitibi subprovince, in the Bousquet Township. It is hosted by volcanic and plutonic rocks of the BRG. Volcanic rocks dominate and areprimarily basaltic to andesitic in composition. The Mouska deposit is classified as an orogenic lode-type deposit. Economic mineralization is associated with laterally and vertically continuous narrow quartz veins of less than one metre in thickness. Veins strike ESE, dip subvertically and contain 5-15% pyrite-pyrrhotite and 5-10% chalcopyrite.

Underground exploration at Mouska began in October 1987, pre-production development followed in May 1990 and commercial production commenced in July 1991. IAMGOLD acquired the Doyon Division including both the Doyon Gold Mine and Mouska Gold Mine through its merger with Cambior in November 2006.

The Mouska mine life extension project was approved by IAMGOLD in the fourth quarter of 2009. Stockpiling of ore produced at the mine will be carried out in 2012, for processing in 2013.