Suuriluusikko Pit

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The Suuri Zone is currently the most important zone of gold mineralization in the Kittila Mine. Each of the three subzones, composed of several subparallel lenses each, can occur (alone, in pairs or together) within a 100- to 200-m-wide corridor east to west within the main Suurikuusikko structure. They have been traced almost continuously for over 1,300 m north-south. The lowest level of Suuri Zone is 675 m. The next level (700 m) below belongs to
Suuri/Roura Extension zone. The gold mineralization occurs in 33 lenses (lenses 2120, 2140, 2520, 3020, 3120, 3140, 3160, 3180, 3220, 3360, 3620, 4120, 4140, 4220, 4240, 4260, 4320, 4340, 4360, 4420, 4520, 4620, 4720, 4820, 4840, 4920, 5520, 5610, 5620, 5720, 5820, 5920 and 5940). The average thickness of the lenses is 5.6 m, ranging between 3 and 32 m.

The Suuri Zone makes up 53.1% of the total probable reserves (2.14 million oz of gold in 13.6 million tonnes grading 4.89 g/t), 38.2% of the total indicated resources (552,700 oz of gold in 8.1 million tonnes grading 2.11 g/t) and 18.7% of the inferred resources (110,200 oz of gold in 1.1 million tonnes grading 3.05 g/t).