Bits and pieces of the Yukon’s defunct Wolverine Mine are now up for grabs, as the company that owns the assets prepares for a quick sale.
Welichem Equipment, a B.C. biotech company, owns most of the mine’s assets, including a zinc mill, 10-megawatt diesel plant and a turnkey mine camp for 250 workers. Welichem rented the mining equipment to Yukon Zinc Corporation, the company that operated the mine before abandoning it.
James Dai, the Welichem’s chief financial officer, told CBC News that the company ishoping the vast majority of the assets go to a local mining company.
“That would be ideal and that would be economically great and environmentally friendly,” Dai said.
The WolverineMine, located 282 kilometres northeast of Whitehorse,…
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