−Removed: June 1, 2017, the Company has a lease agreement for office space at 401 Bay Street, Suite 2702, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5H 2Y4.
−Removed: 5-year lease provides for a monthly base rent of CDN$12,964 for the first two years, increasing to CDN$13,504 per month for years three
−Removed: through five.
−Removed: The Company has signed sub-leases with other companies that cover 100% of the monthly lease amount.
+Added: Company’s sole focus is the development and restart of its 100% owned flagship asset, the Bunker Hill mine (the “Mine”)
+Added: in Idaho, USA.
+Added: The Mine remains the largest single producing mine by tonnage in the Silver Valley region of northwest Idaho, producing
+Added: over 165 million ounces of silver and 5 million tons of base metals between 1885 and 1981.
+Added: The Bunker Hill Mine is located within Operable
+Added: Unit 2 of the Bunker Hill Superfund site (EPA National Priorities Listing IDD048340921), where cleanup activities have been completed.
Bunker Hill Mine
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Initial discovery and development of the Mine property
−Removed: began in 1885, and from that time until the Mine closed in 1981, it produced over 35.8 million tons of ore at an average mined
−Removed: grade of 8.76% lead, 4.52 ounces per ton silver, and 3.67% zinc, which represented 162Moz of silver, 3.16M lbs.
+Added: began in 1885, and from that time until the Mine closed in 1981 it produced over 35.8 million tons of ore at an average mined grade of
+Added: 8.76% lead, 4.52 ounces per ton silver, and 3.67% zinc, which represented 162Moz of silver, 3.16M lbs.
of lead and 1.35M lbs.
−Removed: of zinc (Bunker Limited Partnership, 1985).
−Removed: Throughout the 95-year operating history of the mine, there were over 40 different orebodies
−Removed: discovered and mined, consisting of lead-silver-zinc mineralization.
−Removed: Although known for its significant lead and zinc production, 45-50%
−Removed: of the Net Smelter Value of its historical production came from its silver.
−Removed: The Company and Sullivan Mining Company had a strong history
−Removed: of regular dividend payments to shareholders from the time the Company went public in 1905 until it was acquired in a hostile takeover
−Removed: by Gulf Resources in 1968.
+Added: (Bunker Limited Partnership, 1985).
+Added: Throughout the 95-year operating history of the mine, there were over 40 different orebodies discovered
+Added: and mined, consisting of lead-silver-zinc mineralization.
+Added: Although known for its significant lead and zinc production, 45-50% of the
+Added: Net Smelter Value of its historical production came from its silver.
+Added: The Company and Sullivan Mining Company had a strong history of
+Added: regular dividend payments to shareholders from the time the Company went public in 1905 until it was acquired in a hostile takeover by
+Added: Gulf Resources in 1968.
the Mine first closed in 1981, it was estimated to still contain significant resources (Bunker Limited Partnership, 1985).
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under EPA regulations, thereby pausing development of the Mine for over 30 years.
−Removed: cleanup of the old smelter, zinc plant, and associated sites has now been completed and the Mine is now poised for development and an
−Removed: eventual return to production.
−Removed: The Company has been in contact with government officials and other local stakeholders who have expressed
−Removed: strong support and cooperation for the Company in its efforts to return the mine to a productive, modern and sustainable mining asset.
−Removed: and Mineralization
−Removed: Coeur d’Alene Mining District is one of the most prolific mining districts in North America.
−Removed: It has been in constant production
−Removed: since its discovery in the 1880s, historically is the second largest silver-producing area in the world, and is one of the largest zinc
−Removed: and lead producers, as well.
−Removed: Over 100 mines historically have reached commercial production in the District, which currently hosts two
−Removed: major mines, the Lucky Friday/Gold Hunter owned by Hecla Mining Company, and the Galena Mine, owned by America’s Silver.
−Removed: of other mines including the Sunshine, the Crescent, and the Coeur Mine have the potential to be re-started should silver prices rise
−Removed: sufficiently to justify reactivation.
−Removed: geology of the Silver Valley district occurs within the Precambrian meta-sedimentary rocks of the Belt-Purcell Supergroup, a Middle Proterozoic
−Removed: sedimentary basin occurring primarily in western Montana, Idaho and Southeastern British Columbia.
−Removed: In the Coeur d’Alene region
−Removed: these comprise a 21,000’ thick sequence of clastic, (argillites, siltites, and quartzites) and carbonate sedimentary rocks.
−Removed: rocks have been metamorphosed and strongly deformed by compressional tectonics during the Sevier Orogenic event of the cretaceous age.
−Removed: Following this, later in the cretaceous age, the Bitterroot Lobe of the Idaho Batholith was emplaced to the south of the Coeur d’Alene
−Removed: district which was accompanied by dike emplacement.
−Removed: mining district lies within the west-central part of a regional tectonic lineament known as the Lewis and Clark line, a major fault system,
−Removed: consisting of numerous faults that display strike slip, normal and reverse movements over a protracted geological history.
−Removed: Bunker Hill deposit occurs within the Revett and St Regis formations of the Ravalli Group, with the quartzites and siltites of the Middle
−Removed: Revett formation dominating.
−Removed: Most significant, and the common host to the larger Bunker Hill ore bodies is the M2 Unit of the Middle
−Removed: Revett formation, which is the thickest and most continuous quartzite package in the formation.
−Removed: Mine area lies on the north limb of an anticline fold in these rocks, which establishes a west-northwest to northeast trend for bedding
−Removed: With the axis of this anticline inclined southwesterly, the formations on the north limb dip steeply upright to the northwest
−Removed: or are overturned steeply to the south or southwest.
−Removed: structural features that dominate the broad framework in which the Mine is located are the Osburn Fault to the North, which has a right-lateral
−Removed: offset of several miles bringing the older Prichard formation rocks opposite the mine formations, the Alhambra Fault to the east, and
−Removed: the large Anticline to the west and south.
−Removed: structure of the Bunker Hill deposits is associated with this anticline and are hosted by the fold-generated fractures and brecciation
−Removed: in the quartzite beds created in the hinge and near-hinge limbs of the broad flexure.
−Removed: Fold-associated
−Removed: elements include sphalerite-pyrite-siderite filled reverse shears, replacement mineralization of stratiform-like fabric composed of both
−Removed: sphalerite and galena, and principally sphalerite replacement as fine “crackle breccia” and irregular dense soaking.
−Removed: development of these various fabrics appears to be dependent on location relative to the hinge, lithology of the host unit, and the stratigraphic
−Removed: horizon in the Revett formation
−Removed: Mineralization
−Removed: Mineralization
−Removed: is hosted by parallel mesothermal veins related to metamorphic/hydrothermal events that sourced metals from the Belt sediments.
−Removed: consists of wide veins with variable proportions of sphalerite, galena and tetrahedrite in either a quartz or siderite gangue.
−Removed: individual deposits that form the Mine are numerous and relatively large with strike lengths up to 900 ft (274 m) with plunge lengths
−Removed: up to 3,000 ft (914 m) with many open at depth.
−Removed: Wall rock alteration associated with veining consists of changes in carbonate mineralogy
−Removed: plus sulfidation and silicification.
−Removed: Pyritization of wall rocks is locally strong.
−Removed: Bleached halos resulting from destruction of hematite
−Removed: by hydrothermal fluids are also characteristic.
−Removed: The mineralization is partly oxidized to a depth of approximately 1,800 ft (549 m).
−Removed: are three distinct types of mineralization at the Mine:
−Removed: NW trending Bluebird mineral zones are zinc rich and consist of sphalerite in excess of galena with variable amount of pyrite in
−Removed: a gangue of greyish quartz and minor siderite.
−Removed: This mineralized material is commonly localized in smaller parasitic folds, broken
−Removed: by reverse shears (Meyer, 1982).
−Removed: Jersey type mineral bodies consist principally of veins containing galena with lesser amounts of sphalerite, chalcopyrite and tetrahedrite
−Removed: (Meyer, 1981).
−Removed: These NE to N trending veins are referred to as “link” veins as they extend between the NW trending Cate
−Removed: and Dull faults, or other faults in the mine.
−Removed: Gangue minerals are primarily white quartz with lesser siderite.
−Removed: mineral bodies comprise the third type and are associated with zones of brecciation located at the junctions of major faults.
−Removed: are multi-stage systems where “Bluebird” type fracture zones were reopened and brecciated prior to flooding by galena
−Removed: from the newly opened “link” veins.
−Removed: The galena penetrated and partially replaced the previous minerals and filled remaining
−Removed: open spaces (Meyer, 1981).
−Removed: of the deposits, and especially those of the Bluebird system, may have originally comprised a parallel set of only four or five persistent
−Removed: fracture sets.
−Removed: However, extremely complex post-mineralization shearing has segmented and displaced the deposits.
−Removed: and Mill Operations
−Removed: with the original Bunker Hill and Sullivan claims, the Mine eventually encompassed 620 patented mining claims totaling 6,200 acres.
−Removed: the discovery cuts some 3600 feet above sea level, over 20 major ore zones were mined to nearly 1600 feet below sea level, a vertical
−Removed: distance of about one mile.
−Removed: major mining methods were historically employed in the Mine.
−Removed: The oldest is square set or cut and fill.
−Removed: These methods employ support of
−Removed: the stope where the vein is mined with sets of timbers and/or rock bolts, and then sand-fill is pumped from the surface as the mining
−Removed: activity moves to a higher elevation.
−Removed: The broken ore was scraped into chutes by compressed air powered slushers and dropped into ore
−Removed: pockets on the level below.
−Removed: second method called shrink stoping is similar to the above, but no ground support is required.
−Removed: Instead, the broken ore is used as both
−Removed: ground support and a mining floor and the full mining cut is completed prior to withdrawing the ore from the stope.
−Removed: Air powered slushers
−Removed: or compressed air operated mucking machines on rubber tires were historically used.
−Removed: third mining method is known as room and pillar mining.
−Removed: In this operation, no timber is required but pillars of ore are left in place
−Removed: as supports until the stoping moves to a higher elevation, at which time sand fill is pumped in to provide the floor for the next cut.
−Removed: As the ore is broken, rubber tired, compressed air operated mucking machines picked it up putting it into a box on the back of the loader.
−Removed: It was then transported to a chute in the stope where it dropped into the ore pocket on a lower level.
−Removed: fourth method is sublevel blasthole stoping.
−Removed: Diesel powered equipment cuts horizontal slices every forty feet in the ore zones.
−Removed: long holes are drilled in the pillars between horizontal slices.
−Removed: The holes are blasted allowing the ore to fall to the bottom slice and
−Removed: scooped up by diesel powered loaders and transported to ore passes.
−Removed: This method was used above the Kellogg Tunnel, and ore was transported
−Removed: by gravity to the tunnel and hauled out by train to the surface.
−Removed: the ore pockets on the various levels of the mine below the Kellogg Tunnel, ore trains powered by battery driven locomotives transported
−Removed: the ore to ore pockets located at the shaft.
−Removed: In the shaft, large steel buckets, called skips, were loaded and hoisted to the Kellogg
−Removed: Tunnel level where the ore was dumped into two large concrete bins.
−Removed: Drawn from these storage areas by gravity, the ore was next transported
−Removed: two miles to the surface in 22-car ore trains pulled by trolley and diesel locomotives.
−Removed: stoping, cut and fill, and shrinkage stoping methods are likely to be employed in the re-start of the Mine.
−Removed: The main improvement and
−Removed: productivity gain over historic operations will be the widespread use of rubber-tired equipment, which will be used for mucking and transport
−Removed: of the broken mineralized material.
−Removed: The upper part of the Mine is largely already developed with ramps, which will be used by the Company
−Removed: for rubber-tired access.
−Removed: Most of these ramps were completed by the Bunker Hill Company and ramp expansion also occurred during the BLP
−Removed: mine reopening.
−Removed: engineers have already inspected many portions of the ramp system in the upper part of the Mine and the ramps are generally in very good
−Removed: shape and will only require minor repair and clean-up.
−Removed: Historically,
−Removed: the Mine ore was milled in the milling facility located approximately 2,000 yards from the main Kellogg Tunnel portal and the concentrate
−Removed: was treated at the nearby smelting and refining complex, which was located approximately one mile to the west of the mill.
−Removed: facility and smelting complex have all been razed and remediation of these sites has been largely completed.
−Removed: existing water treatment plant, the CTP, which was originally built by the Bunker Hill Company remains in operation and is operated by
−Removed: the EPA through a local contractor.
−Removed: This plant has received numerous upgrades and capacity improvements in the last twenty-five years.
−Removed: All mine water which is discharged from the Mine has been treated by the EPA during the ownership of the mine by Placer Mining.
−Removed: of Geologic and Mining Terms
−Removed: fine-grained sedimentary rock composed predominantly of indurated muds and oozes.
−Removed: rock composed of broken fragments of minerals or rock cemented together by a fine-grained matrix, which can be either similar to
−Removed: or different from the composition of the fragments.
−Removed: major ore mineral containing copper, iron, and sulfur.
−Removed: geologic period from 145 to 65 million years ago.
−Removed: type of sheet intrusion referring to any geologic body that cuts discordantly across rock structures.
−Removed: natural mineral form of lead sulfide.
−Removed: to or produced by hot water, especially water heated underground by the Earth’s internal heat.
−Removed: mineral is a naturally occurring solid chemical substance having characteristic chemical composition, highly ordered atomic structure,
−Removed: Mineralization
−Removed: act or process of mineralizing.
−Removed: material that can be mined and processed at a positive cash flow.
−Removed: process whereby the sulfur in a mineral has been removed and replaced by oxygen.
−Removed: very common sulfide mineral consisting of iron and sulfur found in a wide variety of geological occurrences.
−Removed: Commonly known as “Fools
−Removed: hard metamorphic rock which was originally sandstone
−Removed: Silicification
−Removed: hydrothermal or metamorphic process involving the introduction of, alteration to, or replacement by silica.
−Removed: mineral containing zinc and sulfur.
−Removed: minerals are a class of minerals containing sulfur with sulfide (S 2− ) as the major anion.
−Removed: sulfosalt mineral containing copper, antimony, and sulfur.
−Removed: Work and Future Development Plans
−Removed: Resources and Exploration
−Removed: with the digitization work, and since March 2020, the Company has been working systematically to bring a number of mineralized zones
−Removed: into accordance with NI 43-101 through drilling and channel sampling of the open stopes.
−Removed: This work focused upon the mineralization that
−Removed: is closest to the existing infrastructure and above the current water-level.
−Removed: doing so, the Company’s first objective was to validate in accordance with NI 43-101 standards up to 9 million tons of primarily
−Removed: zinc ore contained within the UTZ, Quill and Newgard Ore Bodies.
−Removed: This was conducted between April and July 2020, and involved over 9,000
−Removed: feet of drilling from Underground and extensive sampling from the many open stopes above the water-level.
−Removed: These zones could provide the
−Removed: majority of the early feed if the Company were to achieve a re-start of the Mine.
−Removed: September 28, 2020, the Company announced its maiden mineral resources estimate consisting of a total of 8.9 million tons in the Inferred
−Removed: category, containing 11 million ounces of silver, 880 million pounds of zinc, and 410 million pounds of lead, which represented the result
−Removed: of the Company’s extensive drilling and sampling efforts conducted between April and July 2020.
−Removed: the program as described above, through February 2021 the Company conducted approximately 10,000 feet of additional drilling, primarily
−Removed: focused on expanding and upgrading its maiden mineral resources estimate in support of its intention to target a rapid re-start of the
−Removed: Mine, as announced on November 12, 2020.
−Removed: March 19, 2021, the Company announced an updated mineral resources estimate consisting of a total of 4.4 million tons in the Indicated
−Removed: category, containing 3.0 million ounces of silver, 487 million pounds of zinc, and 176 million pounds of lead;
−Removed: and a total of 5.6 million
−Removed: tons in the Inferred category, containing 8.3 million ounces of silver, 548 million pounds of zinc, and 312 million pounds of lead.
−Removed: details regarding the Company’s mineral resources as noted above, including estimation methodologies, can be found in the news
−Removed: releases dated September 28, 2020, and March 19, 2021 on EDGAR, SEDAR and the Company’s website www.bunkerhillmining.com.
−Removed: should be noted that mineral resources as stated above, including those delineated in the Inferred, Measured and Indicated categories,
−Removed: are not mineral reserves as defined by SEC guidelines, and do now show demonstrated economic viability.
−Removed: Due to the uncertainty that may be attached to Inferred mineral resources,
−Removed: it cannot be assumed that all or any part of an Inferred mineral resource will be upgraded to an Indicated or Measured mineral resource
−Removed: as a result of continued exploration.
−Removed: activities will focus on high-grade lead-silver mineralization targets, in the upper levels of the mine and identified by the data review
−Removed: and digitization process.
−Removed: Consistent with that strategy, on March 19, 2021, the Company announced the identification of a new silver
−Removed: exploration opportunity in the hanging wall of the Cate Fault which it intends to include in its ongoing drilling campaign.
−Removed: March 29, 2021, the Company announced multiple high-grade silver mineralization results through chip-channel sampling of newly accessible
−Removed: areas of the Mine identified through the Company’s proprietary 3D digitization program, and as part of its ongoing silver-focused
−Removed: drilling program.
−Removed: An area was identified on the 9-level that resulted in ten separate chip samples greater than 900 g/t AgEq (1) ,
−Removed: each with minimum 0.6m length.
−Removed: Mineralization remains open up dip, down dip and along strike from the sampling location.
−Removed: also reported drill results including a 3.8m intercept with a grade of 996.6 g/t AgEq (1) , intersected at the down-dip extension
−Removed: of the UTZ zone at the 5-level.
−Removed: The Company will continue to report mineralized drill intercepts concurrent with its ongoing exploration
−Removed: program that is currently envisaged to comprise 10,000 to 12,000 feet in 2021.
−Removed: used to calculate Ag Eq are as follows:
−Removed: and Ag=$20/oz, which are the prices used in the March 2021 technical
−Removed: On December 29, 2021, the Company filed a technical
−Removed: report entitled “Technical Report And Preliminary Economic Assessment For Underground Milling And Concentration Of Lead, Silver
−Removed: And Zinc At The Bunker Hill Mine, Bunker Hill Mine, Coeur d’Alene Mining District, Shoshone County, Idaho, USA” (the “Technical
−Removed: Report” or “Bunker Hill Technical Report”) in support of the updated MRE that it announced on November 30, 2021 (as
−Removed: described above).
−Removed: This technical report was prepared in accordance with the requirements of the SEC Mining Modernization Rules and NI-43-101
−Removed: and is filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement of which this prospectus is a part.
−Removed: On February 25, 2022, the Company announced the
−Removed: filing of an amended technical report for the Bunker Hill Mine to address comments from the Ontario Securities Commission (the “OSC
−Removed: Staff”) as a result of a voluntary application by the Company for a review of its technical disclosure by the OSC Staff.
−Removed: Technical Report addresses comments requesting clarification, formatting and additional disclosure in a number of areas, including the
−Removed: property description, treatment of historical estimates, and sampling and verification methods.
−Removed: It also includes updated disclosure reflecting
−Removed: the Company’s ownership of the Bunker Hill Mine, which did not become effective until after the December 2021 Technical Report
−Removed: had been published.
−Removed: The Mineral Resource Estimate and financial assumptions in the Preliminary Economic Assessment are unchanged from
−Removed: the December 2021 Technical Report.
−Removed: The Amended Technical Report is titled “Technical Report and Preliminary Economic Assessment
−Removed: For Underground Milling and Concentration of Lead, Silver and Zinc at the Bunker Hill Mine, Coeur d’Alene Mining District, Shoshone
−Removed: County, Idaho, USA”, with an effective date of January 7, 2022.
−Removed: Technical Report Summary
−Removed: The following summary is extracted from the Technical
−Removed: Report filed on February 25, 2022.
−Removed: The following information does not purport to be a complete summary of the Bunker Hill Technical Report,
−Removed: is subject to all the assumptions, qualifications and procedures set out in the Bunker Hill Technical Report and is qualified in its
−Removed: entirety with reference to the full text of the Bunker Hill Technical Report.
−Removed: Each of the authors of the Bunker Hill Technical Report
−Removed: is independent qualified person under NI 43-101 (each a “ Qualified Person ”, and together the “ Qualified Persons ”)
−Removed: and have approved the summary of the Bunker Hill Technical Report below.
−Removed: The effective date of the technical report was January 7, 2022.
−Removed: The Bunker Hill Technical Report describes the
−Removed: mining and processing operations at the Bunker Hill Mine located near the town of Kellogg Idaho, for the Company.
−Removed: The Company has the
−Removed: exclusive rights to acquire 100% ownership of the Bunker Hill Mine.
−Removed: The Bunker Hill Technical Report considers a processing
−Removed: approach at Bunker Hill Mine where lead (“ Pb ”), silver (“ Ag ”) and zinc (“ Zn ”)
−Removed: mineralization is mined and processed entirely underground.
−Removed: Mineralized material would be conventionally milled and then concentrated
−Removed: by flotation of PbAg followed by flotation of ZnAg.
−Removed: Metal rich concentrates could then be sold to smelters in North America or overseas.
−Removed: Mill tailings will be deposited underground in the historic mining voids located throughout the Bunker Hill Mine.
−Removed: The only envisioned
−Removed: surface facilities would be offices, warehouses and loading docks.
−Removed: Highlights of the Bunker Hill Technical Report,
−Removed: including the preliminary economic assessment (“ Technical Report PEA ”), are listed in Table 1-2 and Table 1-3.
−Removed: 1-1 lists the Mineral Resource estimate for the Bunker Hill Mine.
−Removed: Mineral Resources are reported according to the CIM Definition Standards
−Removed: of May 10, 2014 (“ CIM ”).
−Removed: The guidance and definitions of CIM are incorporated by reference in NI 43-101.
−Removed: Mineral Resources
−Removed: are geologically constrained and defined at economic cutoff grades that demonstrate reasonable prospects of eventual economic extraction.
−Removed: Mineral Resources are not Mineral Reserves and do not have demonstrated economic viability.
−Removed: There is no certainty that all or any part
−Removed: of the Mineral Resources will be converted into Mineral Reserves.
+Added: The cleanup of the old smelter, zinc plant, and associated
+Added: sites has been completed and management believes the Mine is well positioned for development and an eventual return to production.
+Added: more detailed description of the Mine can be found in the “Technical Report Summary” section of this report, including the
+Added: current Mineral Resource Estimate, Mineral Reserves, an economic summary, property description and ownership, geology and mineralization,
+Added: environmental studies and permitting, metallurgical testing, mining method, recovery methods, and current exploration and development.
+Added: Project Activities
+Added: early 2020, a new management team comprised of former executives from Barrick Gold Corp.
+Added: assumed leadership of the Company.
+Added: time, the Company conducted multiple exploration campaigns, published multiple economic studies and Mineral Resource Estimates, and advanced
+Added: the rehabilitation and development of the Mine.
+Added: In December 2021, it announced a project finance package with Sprott Private Resource
+Added: Streaming & Royalty Corp., an amended Settlement Agreement with the EPA, and the purchase of the Bunker Hill Mine, setting the stage
+Added: for a rapid restart of the Mine.
+Added: January 2022, with the closing of the purchase of the Bunker Hill Mine, the funding of the $8,000,000 Royalty Convertible Debenture and
+Added: $6,000,000 Series Convertible Debenture, and the announcement of an MOU for the purchase of the Pend Oreille process plant from a subsidiary
+Added: of Teck Resources Limited, the Company embarked on a program of activities with the goal of achieving a restart of the Mine.
+Added: Key milestones
+Added: and achievements from January 2022 onwards have included the closing of the purchase of the Pend Oreille process plant, the demobilization
+Added: of the process plant to the Bunker Hill site, the completion of demolition activities at the Pend Oreille site, a Prefeasibility Study
+Added: envisaging the restart of the Mine, and the completion of the primary portion of the ramp decline connecting the 5 and 6 Levels of the
+Added: Bunker Hill Mine.
+Added: Report Summary
+Added: The following summary is extracted from the S-K 1300 Technical Report Summary,
+Added: Bunker Hill Mine Pre-Feasibility Study, Coeur D’ Alene Mining District Shoshone County, Idaho, USA with a Report Date of April 14,
+Added: 2023 and an Effective Date of August 29, 2022 (the “TRS”).
+Added: The following information does not purport to be a complete summary
+Added: of the Technical Report Summary, is subject to all the assumptions, qualifications and procedures set out in the Technical Report and
+Added: is qualified in its entirety with reference to the full text of the Technical Report Summary.
+Added: Each of the Qualified Persons of the Technical
+Added: Report Summary is an independent qualified person under the definitions of §229.1300 (Item 1300 of Regulation S-K) (each a “Qualified
+Added: Person”, and together the “Qualified Persons”) and have approved the summary of the Technical Report Summary below.
+Added: Technical Report Summary describes the mining and processing operations at the Company’s 100% owned Bunker Hill Mine located
+Added: near the town of Kellogg, Idaho.
+Added: Technical Report Summary considers a processing approach at Bunker where Pb, Ag and Zn mineralization is mined underground.
+Added: Mineralized material will be conventionally milled and then concentrated by flotation of lead and silver (Pb/Ag) followed by
+Added: flotation of zinc (Zn).
+Added: Metal rich concentrates will then be sold to smelters in North America or overseas.
+Added: Mill tailings will be
+Added: deposited underground in the historic mining voids located throughout the Project.
+Added: Economic and Life of Mine highlights of the Technical Report Summary are listed in Table 1-3 and Table 1-4.
+Added: Table 1-1 lists the Mineral
+Added: Resource Estimate for the Bunker Hill Mine and Table 1-2 lists the Mineral Reserves for the Bunker Hill Mine.
+Added: Mineral Resources are not
+Added: Mineral Reserves and do not have demonstrated economic viability.
+Added: There is no certainty that all or any part of the Mineral Resources
+Added: will be converted into Mineral Reserves.
Resource Estimate
−Removed: Geostatistics and estimates of mineralization
−Removed: were prepared by Mr.
−Removed: Scott Wilson, C.P.G., SME.
+Added: Geostatistics and estimates of mineralization were
+Added: prepared by Resource Development Associates Inc.
Industry accepted grade estimation techniques were used to develop global mineralization
block models for the Newgard, Quill and UTZ zones.
−Removed: The Mineral Resource estimate considers underground mining and mill processing as
−Removed: a basis for reasonable prospects of eventual economic extraction.
+Added: The Mineral Resource Estimate considers underground mining and mill processing as a
+Added: basis for reasonable prospects of eventual economic extraction.
The total Mineral Resource estimate for the Bunker Hill Mine is listed
in Table 1-1 at a cutoff grade of NSR 70 $/ton.
−Removed: Table 1-1 Bunker Hill Mine Mineral Resource
−Removed: Estimate – NSR $70/ton cut off – Ag selling price of $20/oz (troy), Lead selling price of $0.90/lb, Zn selling price of $1.15/lb.
−Removed: Effective date of November 29, 2021)
−Removed: The Qualified Person for the above estimate is Scott Wilson, C.P.G.,
−Removed: effective November 29, 2021
−Removed: Measured, Indicated and Inferred classifications are based on the
−Removed: 2014 CIM Definition Standards.
−Removed: The Company has chosen to no longer classify Mineral Resources as “ZnAg Resources” or
−Removed: “PbAg Resources”, as was done for the Mineral Resource Update effective March 22, 2021
−Removed: Mineral Resources that are not Mineral Reserves do not have demonstrated
−Removed: economic viability
−Removed: Net smelter return (NSR) is defined as the return from sales of
−Removed: concentrates, expressed in US$/t, ie:
−Removed: NSR = (Contained metal) * (Metallurgical recoveries) * (Metal Payability %) * (Metal
−Removed: prices) – (Treatment, refining, transport and other selling costs).
−Removed: For the Mineral Resource Estimate, NSR values were calculated
−Removed: using updated open-cycle metallurgical results including recoveries of 92%, 82% and 88% for Zn, Ag and Pb respectively, and concentrate
−Removed: grades of 54.7% Zn in zinc concentrate, and 59.7% Pb and 14.18 oz/ton Ag in lead concentrate.
−Removed: All other relevant assumptions are
−Removed: as described in Table 16-1 of the Company’s Updated PEA filed on SEDAR on November 3, 2021
−Removed: The Qualified Person for the above metallurgical data is Deepak
−Removed: Malhotra, SME of Pro Solv LLC Mineral Resources are estimated using a zinc price of $1.15 per pound, silver price of $20.00 per ounce,
−Removed: and lead price of $0.90 per pound.
−Removed: Historic mining voids, stopes and development drifting have been
−Removed: accounted for in the mineral resource estimate
−Removed: Columns may not add up due to rounding
−Removed: Preliminary Economic
−Removed: The summary of the current
−Removed: projected financial performance of the Bunker Hill Mine is listed in Table 1-2.
−Removed: Sensitivities are summarized in Table 1-3.
−Removed: The preliminary economic
−Removed: assessment is preliminary in nature, and there is no certainty that the reported results will be realized.
−Removed: The Mineral Resource estimate
−Removed: used for the Technical Report PEA includes Inferred Mineral Resources which are considered too speculative geologically to have the economic
−Removed: considerations applied to them that would enable them to be categorized as Mineral Reserves, and there is no certainty that the projected
−Removed: economic performance will be realized.
−Removed: The purpose of the Technical Report PEA is to demonstrate the economic viability of the Bunker
−Removed: Hill Mine, and the results are only intended as an initial, first-pass review of the Bunker Hill Mine economics based on preliminary
−Removed: Mineral Resources are not Mineral Reserves and do not have demonstrated economic viability .
−Removed: Estimated Bunker Hill
−Removed: production for Life of Mine
+Added: Mineral Resources are classified according to §229.1302(d)(1)(iii)(A) (Item 1302(d)(1)(iii)(A)
+Added: of Regulation S-K).
+Added: Table 1-1 Bunker Hill Mine Mineral Resource Estimate (Exclusive of Mineral
+Added: Reserves), August 29, 2022 – Resource Development Asociates Inc.
+Added: (1) The Mineral Resource Estimate was prepared by Resource Development Associates Inc.
+Added: Measured, Indicated and Inferred classifications are classified according to §229.1302(d)(1)(iii)(A) (Item 1302(d)(1)(iii)(A) of
+Added: Regulation S-K).
+Added: Mineral Resources that are not Mineral Reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability
+Added: Net smelter return (NSR) is defined as the return from sales of concentrates, expressed in US$/t, i.e.:
+Added: NSR = (Contained metal) * (Metallurgical
+Added: recoveries) * (Metal Payability %) * (Metal prices) – (Treatment, refining, transport and other selling costs).
+Added: For the Mineral
+Added: Resource Estimate, NSR values were calculated using updated open-cycle metallurgical results including recoveries of 85.1%, 84.2% and
+Added: 88.2% for Zn, Ag and Pb respectively, and concentrate grades of 58% Zn in zinc concentrate, and 67% Pb and 12.13 oz/ton Ag in lead concentrate.
+Added: Mineral Resources are estimated using a zinc price of $1.20 per pound, silver price of $20.00 per ounce, and lead price of $1.00 per
+Added: Historic mining voids, stopes and development drifting have been depleted from the Mineral Resource Estimate
+Added: Totals may not add up due to rounding
+Added: (8) Mineral Resources are reported exclusive of Mineral
+Added: The reserves disclosed in the report represent measured mineral resources and indicated resources that were evaluated with modifying
+Added: factors related to underground mining.
+Added: Reserves have been estimated for the Quill, Newgard and UTZ sections of the Project.
+Added: Measured and Indicated (M & I) Mineral Resources
+Added: were converted to Probable Mineral Reserves for the mine.
+Added: Measured Mineral Resources were converted to Probable Mineral Reserves because
+Added: of uncertainties associated with modifying factors that were taken into account in the conversion from Mineral Resources to Mineral Reserves.
+Added: and Indicated Resources were converted to Probable Mineral Reserves by evaluating operating cost, projected metal revenues and estimated
+Added: stope shapes and geometries.
+Added: The general widths, plunge and shape of the Quill and Newgard mineralization lends itself well to transverse
+Added: (perpendicular to strike) long hole open stoping (LHOS) with fill utilizing rubber tire equipment.
+Added: The UTZ deposit is more amenable to
+Added: cut-and-fill (CF) methods due to its shape and geometry.
+Added: Extraction of the planned mine shapes is assumed to be 100% of the NSR $80/ton
+Added: Breakeven NSR is $70/ton for LHOS and $75/ton for cut-and-fill stopes.
+Added: Reserves were classified in accordance with §229.1302(e)(2) (Item 1302(e)(2) of Regulation S-K).
+Added: The mineral reserve statement is
+Added: presented in Table 1-2.
+Added: Mineral Reserves are estimated at an NSR value cutoff of $80/short ton at the reference point of saleable mill
+Added: concentrates with an effective date of August 29, 2022.
+Added: 1-2 Bunker Hill Mineral Reserve Estimate, August 29, 2022 – Minetech, USA, LLC
+Added: Plan Dilution is zero grade waste included in the designed stope shapes and probable tonnages
+Added: Unplanned dilution is 5% external dilution added at zero grade
+Added: Mineral Reserves stated are inclusive of all above mentioned dilutions and are factored for ore loss due to mining activities
+Added: Net smelter return (NSR) is defined as the return from sales of concentrates, expressed in US$/t, i.e.:
+Added: NSR = (Contained metal) * (Metallurgical
+Added: recoveries) * (Metal Payability %) * (Metal prices) – (Treatment, refining, transport and other selling costs).
+Added: For the Mineral
+Added: Reserve Estimate, NSR values were calculated using updated open-cycle metallurgical results including recoveries of 85.1%, 84.2% and
+Added: 88.2% for Zn, Ag and Pb respectively, and concentrate grades of 58% Zn in zinc concentrate, and 67% Pb and 12.13 oz/ton Ag in lead concentrate.
+Added: Mineral Reserves are estimated using a zinc price of $1.20 per pound, silver price of $20.00 per ounce, and lead price of $1.00 per pound.
+Added: Historic mining voids, stopes and development drifting have been depleted from the Mineral Reserve Estimate
+Added: Totals may not add up due to rounding
+Added: summary of the current projected financial performance of the Bunker Hill Mine is listed in Table 1-3.
+Added: Sensitivities are summarized in
+Added: 1-3 Bunker Hill Project Economic Summary
Silver ($/oz)
Ore mined (kt)
−Removed: Average annual mineralized material mined (kt) Ill
Zinc grade (%)
1 unchanged sentence
Silver grade (oz/t)
−Removed: Zinc eq grade (%) (2i
−Removed: Silver eq grade (oz/t) j3i
−Removed: Zinc produced - Zn conc (klbs)
−Removed: Lead produced - Pb conc (klbs)
−Removed: Silver produced - Pb conc (koz)
−Removed: Zinc eq produced (klbs) t21
−Removed: Silver eq produced (koz) 43)
+Added: Zinc eq grade (%)
+Added: Zinc concentrate (t)
+Added: Lead concentrate (t)
+Added: Zn grade - Zn conc (%)
+Added: Pb grade - Pb conc (%)
+Added: Ag grade - Pb conc (oz/t)
+Added: - Zn conc (klbs)
+Added: - Pb conc (klbs)
+Added: - Pb conc (koz)
+Added: Zinc eq produced (klbs)
+Added: Processing ($/t)
Opex - total ($/t)
Sustaining capex ($/t)
−Removed: by-product ($/lb Zn payable)
−Removed: by-product ($/lb Zn payable)
−Removed: co-product ($/lb Zn payable)
−Removed: co-product ($/lb Zn payable)
−Removed: Pre-tax free cash flow lsi
−Removed: Free cash flow isl
−Removed: Payback (years)
−Removed: Annualize averages excluded the first and last years of mine life
−Removed: Zinc equivalency calculated using metal prices shown above.
−Removed: Silver equivalency calculated using metal prices shown above.
−Removed: Includes zinc produced in zinc concentrate, lead and silver produced
−Removed: in lead concentrate
−Removed: Life of mine (“ LOM ”) includes initial capital
−Removed: expenditure Note:
−Removed: Cash Cost Includes mining, processing, G&A, smelter charges and freight.
−Removed: Table 1-3 Economic Sensitivity to Zinc
−Removed: Price, Opex and Capex
−Removed: Property Description and Ownership
−Removed: The Bunker Hill Mine is located in the cities of Kellogg and Wardner of
−Removed: Shoshone County, Idaho.
−Removed: On August 17, 2017, Bunker Hill and Placer Mining, entered into a two-year Mining Lease with Option to Purchase
−Removed: (together, the “ Lease ”).
−Removed: The Lease became effective on November 1, 2017.
−Removed: The lease provides that Bunker Hill will operate
−Removed: the Bunker Hill Mine and make certain improvements on the Mine along with making monthly $60,000 payments to Placer Mining over the term
−Removed: of the lease.
−Removed: On November 1, 2019, Bunker Hill and the current
−Removed: owner signed an amendment to its Lease for the Bunker Hill Mine.
−Removed: Under the new amended agreement, the lease period has been extended
−Removed: for an additional period of nine months through August 1, 2020.
−Removed: On July 27, 2020, this Lease was further extended
−Removed: until August 1, 2022.
−Removed: On November 20, 2020, the parties amended the
−Removed: Under the amended terms, the purchase price was decreased to $7,700,000, with $5,700,000 payable in cash (with an aggregate of
−Removed: $300,000 to be credited toward the purchase price of the Mine as having been previously paid by Bunker Hill and an aggregate of $5,400,000
−Removed: payable in cash outstanding) and $2,000,000 in common shares of Bunker Hill.
−Removed: Further, under the amendment to the Lease, Bunker Hill was
−Removed: to make an advance payment of $2,000,000 to Placer Mining, which shall be credited toward the purchase price of the Bunker Hill Mine
−Removed: when Bunker Hill elects to exercise its purchase right.
−Removed: Bunker Hill made this advance payment, which had the effect of decreasing the
−Removed: remaining amount payable to purchase the Mine to an aggregate of $3,400,000 payable in cash and $2,000,000 in common shares of Bunker
−Removed: On January 7, 2022, the Company closed the purchase
−Removed: of the Bunker Hill Mine.
−Removed: Mine assets were purchased for $7,700,000, with $300,000 of previous lease payments and a deposit of $2,000,000
−Removed: applied to the purchase, resulting in cash paid at closing of approximately $5,400,000.
−Removed: The EPA obligation of $19,000,000 was assumed
−Removed: by Bunker Hill as part of the acquisition.
−Removed: Geology and Mineralization
−Removed: The Northern Idaho Panhandle Region in which the
−Removed: Bunker Hill Mine is located is underlain by the Middle Proterozoic-aged Belt-Purcell Supergroup of fine-grained, dominantly siliciclastic
−Removed: sedimentary rocks which extends from western Montana (locally named the Belt Supergroup) to southern British Columbia (locally named
−Removed: the Purcell Supergroup) and is collectively over 23,000 feet in total stratigraphic thickness.
−Removed: Mineralization at the Bunker Hill Mine is hosted
−Removed: almost exclusively in the Upper Revett formation of the Ravalli Group, a part of the Belt Supergroup of Middle Proterozoic-aged, fine-grained
−Removed: Geologic mapping and interpretation progressed by leaps and bounds following the recognition of a predictable stratigraphic
−Removed: section at the Bunker Hill Mine and enabled the measurement of specific offsets across major faults, discussed in the following section.
−Removed: From an exploration and mining perspective, there were two critical conclusions from this research:
−Removed: all significant mineralized shoots
−Removed: are hosted in quartzite units where they are cut by vein structures, and the location of the quartzite units can be projected up and
−Removed: down section, and across fault offsets, to target extensions and offsets of known mineralized shoots and veins.
−Removed: Mineralization at Bunker Hill Mine falls in four
−Removed: categories, described below from oldest to youngest events:
−Removed: Bluebird Veins (BB):
−Removed: striking, SW-dipping (Fig.
−Removed: 7-11), variable ratio of sphalerite-pyrite-siderite mineralization.
−Removed: Thick, tabular cores with gradational
−Removed: margins bleeding out along bedding and fractures.
−Removed: Detailed description in Section 7.2.2.
−Removed: Stringer/Disseminated Zones:
−Removed: Disseminated,
−Removed: fracture controlled and bedding controlled blebs and stringer mineralization associated with Bluebird Structures, commonly as halos to
−Removed: vein-like bodies or as isolated areas where brecciated quartzite beds are intersected by the W-NW structure and fold fabrics.
−Removed: Galena-Quartz Veins (GQ):
−Removed: NE striking, S to SE dipping (Fig.
−Removed: 7-11), quartz-argentiferous galena +/-siderite-sphalerite-chalcopyrite-tetrahedrite veins, sinuous-planar
−Removed: with sharp margins, cross-cut Bluebird Veins.
−Removed: Detailed description in Section 7.2.2.
−Removed: Hybrid Zones:
−Removed: Formed at intersections
−Removed: where GQ veins cut BB veins (Fig.
−Removed: 7-11), with open space deposition of sulfides and quartz in the vein refraction in quartzite beds,
−Removed: and replacement of siderite in the BB vein structure by argentiferous galena from the GQ Vein.
−Removed: Environmental Studies and Permitting
−Removed: Because the mine is on patented mining claims
−Removed: (privately-owned land), only a limited number of permits are required for mining and milling operations.
+Added: ($/lb Zn payable)
+Added: FCF & Valuation ($000’s)
+Added: Silver revenue
+Added: Gross revenue
+Added: TC - Zinc conc
+Added: TC - Lead conc
+Added: RC - Lead conc
+Added: Net smelter return
+Added: Processing costs
+Added: Sustaining capex
+Added: Initial capex
+Added: Land & salvage value
+Added: free cash flow
+Added: 1-4 Sensitivity Analysis
+Added: Description and Ownership
+Added: Bunker Hill Mine is located in Shoshone County, Idaho with portions of the mine located within the cities of Kellogg and Wardner, Idaho
+Added: in northwestern USA.
+Added: The Kellogg Tunnel, which is the main access to the mine, is located at 47.53611°N latitude, 116.1381W longitude.
+Added: The approximate elevation for the above cited coordinates is 2366 ft.
+Added: December 15, 2021 BHMC signed a Purchase and Sale Agreement (PSA) with Placer Mining Corporation and both William and Shirley Pangburn
+Added: to acquire full ownership of the subsequently listed mineral titles in addition to other Surface Rights and Real Property associated
+Added: with land and structures of the Bunker Hill Mine.
+Added: January 7, 2022, the Company closed the purchase of the Bunker Hill Mine.
+Added: Mine assets were purchased for $7,700,000, with $300,000 of
+Added: previous lease payments and a deposit of $2,000,000 applied to the purchase, resulting in cash paid at closing of approximately $5,400,000.
+Added: The EPA obligation of $19,000,000 was assumed by Bunker Hill as part of the acquisition.
+Added: and Mineralization
+Added: Northern Idaho Panhandle Region in which the Bunker Hill Mine is located is underlain by the Middle Proterozoic-aged Belt-Purcell Supergroup
+Added: of fine-grained, dominantly siliciclastic sedimentary rocks which extends from western Montana (locally named the Belt Supergroup) to
+Added: southern British Columbia (locally named the Purcell Supergroup) and is collectively over 23,000 feet in total stratigraphic thickness.
+Added: Mineralization
+Added: at the Bunker Hill Mine is hosted almost exclusively in the Upper Revett formation of the Ravalli Group, a part of the Belt
+Added: Supergroup of Middle Proterozoic-aged, fine-grained sediments.
+Added: Geologic mapping and interpretation progressed by leaps and bounds
+Added: following the recognition of a predictable stratigraphic section at the Bunker Hill Mine and enabled the measurement of specific
+Added: offsets across major faults, discussed in the following section.
+Added: From an exploration and mining perspective, there were two critical
+Added: conclusions from this research:
+Added: all significant mineralized shoots are hosted in quartzite units where they are cut by vein
+Added: structures, and the location of the quartzite units can be projected up and down section, and across fault offsets, to target
+Added: extensions and offsets of known mineralized shoots and veins.
+Added: Mineralization
+Added: at Bunker Hill Mine falls in four categories, described below from oldest to youngest events:
+Added: W—NW striking, SW-dipping, variable ratio of sphalerite-pyrite-siderite mineralization.
+Added: Thick, tabular cores with
+Added: gradational margins bleeding out along bedding and fractures.
+Added: Stringer/Disseminated
+Added: Disseminated, fracture controlled and bedding controlled blebs and stringer mineralization associated with Bluebird Structures,
+Added: commonly as halos to vein-like bodies or as isolated areas where brecciated quartzite beds are intersected by the W-NW structure and
+Added: fold fabrics.
+Added: Galena-Quartz
+Added: E to NE striking, S to SE dipping, quartz-argentiferous galena +/-siderite-sphalerite-chalcopyrite-tetrahedrite veins,
+Added: sinuous-planar with sharp margins, cross-cut Bluebird Veins.
+Added: Formed at intersections where GQ veins cut BB veins, with open space deposition of sulfides and quartz in the vein refraction
+Added: in quartzite beds, and replacement of siderite in the BB vein structure by argentiferous galena from the GQ Vein.
+Added: Environmental
+Added: Studies and Permitting
+Added: the mine is on patented mining claims (privately-owned land), only a limited number of permits are required for mining and milling operations.
These relate to:
−Removed: (1) air quality
−Removed: and emissions from crushing, milling and processing and (2) any refurbishment of surface buildings that may require construction permits.
−Removed: The Bunker Hill Mine is located within the Bunker
−Removed: Hill Superfund site (EPA National Priorities Listing IDD048340921).
−Removed: Cleanup activities have been completed in Operable Unit 2 of the
−Removed: Bunker Hill Superfund Site where the mine is located though water treatment continues at the Central Treatment Plant (the “ CTP ”)
−Removed: located near Bunker Hill Mine.
−Removed: The CTP is owned by the EPA and is operated by its contractors.
−Removed: Bunker Hill entered into a Settlement Agreement
−Removed: and Order on Consent with the EPA on May 15, 2018.
−Removed: This agreement limits the Company’s exposure to the Comprehensive Environmental
−Removed: Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (“CERCLA”) liability for past environmental damage to the mine site and surrounding
−Removed: area to obligations that include:
−Removed: Payment of $20,000,000 for historical water treatment cost recovery
−Removed: for amount paid by the EPA from 1995 to 2017.
−Removed: Payment of for water treatment services provided by the EPA at the
−Removed: CTP in Kellogg, Idaho until such time that Bunker Hill either purchases or leases the CTP or builds a separate EPA-approved water
−Removed: treatment facility.
−Removed: Conducting a work program as described in the Ongoing Environmental
−Removed: Activities section of this study
−Removed: In December 2021, in conjunction with its intention
−Removed: to purchase the mine complex, the Company entered into an amended Settlement Agreement (the “Amendment”) between the Company,
−Removed: Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, US Department of Justice and the EPA modifying the payment schedule and payment terms for
−Removed: recovery of historical environmental response costs at Bunker Hill Mine incurred by the EPA.
−Removed: With the purchase of the mine subsequent
−Removed: to the end of the period, the remaining payments of the EPA cost recovery liability would be assumed by the Company, resulting in a total
−Removed: of $19,000,000 liability to the Company, an increase of $8,000,000.
−Removed: The new payment schedule included a $2,000,000 payment to the EPA
−Removed: within 30 days of execution of this amendment, which was made.
−Removed: The remaining $17,000,000 will be paid on the following dates:
−Removed: November 1, 2024
−Removed: November 1, 2025
−Removed: November 1, 2026
−Removed: November 1, 2027
−Removed: November 1, 2028
−Removed: November 1, 2029
−Removed: $ 2,000,000 plus
−Removed: accrued interest
−Removed: The resumption of payments in 2024 were agreed
−Removed: in order to allow the Company to generate sufficient revenue from mining activities at the Bunker Hill Mine to address remaining payment
−Removed: obligations from free cash flow.
−Removed: In addition to the cost recovery payments outlined
−Removed: above, the Amendment includes an inital payment for outstanding water treatment costs that have been incurred over the period from 2018
−Removed: through 2021.
−Removed: This approximately $2,900,000 settlement payment would be made within 90 days of the execution of the Amendment.
−Removed: The changes in payment terms and schedule, are
−Removed: contingent upon the Company securing Financial Assurance in the form of performance bonds or letters of credit deemed acceptable to the
−Removed: EPA totaling $17,000,000.
−Removed: These assurances correspond to the Company’s cost recovery obligations to be paid in 2024 through 2029
−Removed: as outlined above.
−Removed: Should the Company fail to make its scheduled payment, the EPA can draw against this financial assurance.
−Removed: of the bonds or letters of credit will decrease over time as individual payments are made.
−Removed: If the Company does not post an Interim Financial
−Removed: Assurance within 90 days of execution of the Amendment, or fail to post the Final Financial Assurance within 180 days of the execution
−Removed: of the Amendment, the terms of the original agreement will be reinstated.
−Removed: As at December 31, 2021, the Company had not secured
−Removed: the interim financial assurance, and therefore the contingency had not been removed or satisfied.
−Removed: Further, as of the date of this filing,
−Removed: the financial assurance has not been secured, and as a result, the liability to the EPA is accounted for with no effectivity of the Amendment,
−Removed: with the liabilities each reflected as current liabilities.
−Removed: On March 22, 2022, the Company reported that in consultation with the EPA,
−Removed: it has committed to meet the $2,900,000 payment and Financial Assurance obligations by 180 days from the effective date of the Amended
−Removed: Settlement Agreement.
−Removed: Bunker Hill will initiate a full Environmental,
−Removed: Social and Health Impact Assessment for the activities described in this Technical Report PEA and for its business model as a whole in
−Removed: This study is projected for completion in 2022.
−Removed: Metallurgical Testing
−Removed: RDi initiated metallurgical test work on three
−Removed: samples designated Newgard, Quill and Utz with the primary objective of determining the process flowsheet and the metal recoveries and
−Removed: concentrate grades.
−Removed: The test work is on-going, and the highlights of the results so far indicate the following:
−Removed: The composite samples assayed 2.9% to 8.6% Zn, 1.6% to 4.9% Pb and
−Removed: 21 g/mt to 69 g/mt Ag
−Removed: The sample had ±66% of sulfur present as sulfide sulfur
−Removed: Bond’s ball mill work index for the composite samples ranged
−Removed: from 13.73 to 15.58 thereby indicating the rock to be relatively hard
−Removed: Rougher flotation tests indicated that P80 of 150 mesh
−Removed: to 200 mesh was optimum for flotation of desired minerals
−Removed: The sequential flotation scheme employed historically is amenable
−Removed: for production of Pb/Ag and Zn concentrates
−Removed: Mining Method
−Removed: Long-hole stoping with fill (LHOS), cut-and-fill
−Removed: and possibly room-and-pillar mining with fill are the only methods viable for sustained operations today.
−Removed: LHOS is the preferred mining
−Removed: method with limited cut-and-fill mining at Bunker Hill Mine.
−Removed: Room-and-pillar mining is not in the current plan.
−Removed: Timbered ground support
−Removed: has been replaced with newer ground support technology of rock bolts, mesh, shotcrete and steel sets as required.
−Removed: Ground conditions are
−Removed: generally good to excellent at Bunker Hill Mine and the rest of the mines in the Silver Valley.
−Removed: Bunker Hill Mine does not have a history
−Removed: of rock burst events that are frequent in the deeper mines to the east.
−Removed: Recovery Methods
−Removed: Historical and on-going current test work at RDi
−Removed: indicates that sequential flotation process can produce marketable-grade Pb/Ag and Zn concentrates.
−Removed: A conceptual process flowsheet was
−Removed: developed based on limited test work, historical plant flowsheet and plants processing similar polymetallic mineralized material.
−Removed: flowsheets consist of two-stage crushing to produce a feed of P80 of 0.5 inch for the milling circuit.
−Removed: Material will be ground
−Removed: in a ball mill to P80 of 270 mesh with sodium cyanide and zinc sulfate.
−Removed: Resulting ground slurry will be subjected to rougher
−Removed: flotation of lead and silver minerals using xanthate and MIBC.
−Removed: Concentrates could be reground and cleaned up to three times to produce
−Removed: a lead/silver concentrate.
−Removed: Lead rougher- and first-cleaner tailings will
−Removed: be combined and conditioned with copper sulfate and then pH adjusted, and zinc minerals floated with xanthate and MIBC.
−Removed: concentrates could be reground and cleaned up to three times to produce marketable zinc concentrate.
−Removed: Current Exploration and Development
−Removed: Bunker Hill has a rare exploration opportunity
−Removed: available at the Bunker Hill Mine and has embarked on a new path to fully maximize the potential.
−Removed: A treasure trove of geologic and production
−Removed: data has been organized and preserved in good condition in the mine office since the shutdown of major mine operations in the early 1980s.
−Removed: This data represents 70+ years of proper scientific data and sample collection, with high standards of accuracy and precision that were
−Removed: generally at or above industry standards at the time.
−Removed: The Company saw the wealth of information that
−Removed: was available but not readily usable and embarked on a scanning and digitizing program.
−Removed: From this they were able to build a 3D digital
−Removed: model of the mine workings and 3D surfaces and solids of important geologic features.
−Removed: To add to this, all of the historic drill core
−Removed: lithology logs and assay data (>2900 holes) was entered into a database and imported with the other data into Maptek Vulcan 3D software.
−Removed: Exploration activities at the Bunker Hill Mine
−Removed: are focused on core drilling to confirm presence of siler-rich mineralization and wide bluebird style mineralization, as well as finding
−Removed: un-mined offset segments of known mineralized structures.
−Removed: Bunker Hill continues investment in the advancement
−Removed: of the Bunker Hill Mine through drilling, tunnel refurbishment and technical evaluations both internally and with the assistance of reputable
−Removed: consulting firms.
−Removed: RDA is of the opinion that the current Mineral Resources at Bunker Hill Mine are sufficient to warrant continued planning
−Removed: and effort to explore, permit and develop the Bunker Hill Mine, and that it supports the conclusions herein.
−Removed: RDA is of the opinion that with a historic silver
−Removed: production of over 160 million ounces, silver mineralization should be investigated with vigorous exploration programs.
−Removed: While base metals
−Removed: are a very important component of the Bunker Hill Mine and drilling resources are recommended to be allocated to the further delineation
−Removed: and addition of base metal dominant resource, the recent selling price of silver demands attention.
−Removed: The confirmation drilling program
−Removed: identified intercepts of 10 to 20 ounces per ton of silver.
−Removed: The J vein and Francis stopes hosted high grade silver mineralization and
−Removed: the near-surface historic Caledonia and Sierra Nevada Mines were bonanza grade silver producers in the past.
−Removed: These and other known occurrences
−Removed: of silver must be followed up on to determine that economic silver occurrences exist on the Bunker Hill Mine land package
+Added: (1) air quality and emissions from crushing, milling and processing and (2) any refurbishment of surface buildings that
+Added: may require construction permits.
+Added: Bunker Hill Mine is located within the Bunker Hill Superfund site (EPA National Priorities Listing IDD048340921).
+Added: Cleanup activities
+Added: have been completed in Operable Unit 2 of the Bunker Hill Superfund Site where the mine is located, though water treatment continues at
+Added: the Central Treatment Plant (the “ CTP ”) located near Bunker Hill Mine.
+Added: The CTP is owned by the EPA and is operated
+Added: by its contractors.
+Added: entered into a Settlement Agreement and Order on Consent with the US Environmental Protection Agency (“US EPA”) and the US
+Added: Department of Justice (“DOJ”) on May 14, 2018.
+Added: Section 9, Paragraph 33 of that agreement stipulates that BHMC must obtain
+Added: a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (“NPDES”) permit for effluent discharged by Bunker Hill Mine by May 14,
+Added: This obligation exists and the deadline will occur at a point in time where restart activities are planned to occur.
+Added: will initiate a voluntary Environmental, Social and Health Impact Assessment (“ESHIA”) for the activities described in the
+Added: Technical Report Summary and for its business model as a whole.
+Added: This study is projected for completion in 2024 and will conform to ISO, IFC
+Added: and GRI standards.
+Added: Metallurgical
+Added: Resource Development Inc.
+Added: initiated metallurgical test work on three samples designated Newgard, Quill and Utz with the primary objective of determining the process
+Added: flowsheet and the metal recoveries and concentrate grades.
+Added: Flotation testing was completed through locked-cycle testing, the results
+Added: of which are displayed in table 1-5
+Added: 1-5 Summary of Locked-Cycle Flotation Test Results
+Added: open-cycle and locked-cycle tests were completed at a primary grind of P 80 270 mesh for rougher flotation.
+Added: Rougher scavenger
+Added: flotation was included in both the lead and zinc circuits to increase the amount of value sent to the cleaner stages.
+Added: Regrind of the
+Added: lead rougher concentrate with a pebble mill was completed to a particle size of approximately P 80 400 mesh for cleaner flotation.
+Added: No regrind was completed with the zinc rougher concentrate.
+Added: has contracted SGS Canada Inc (SGS) to conduct a metallurgical study to further evaluate and optimize metal recovery for the Bunker Hill
+Added: The primary objective of the test program is to complete metallurgical test work to improve met results over the Pre-feasibility
+Added: Study (PFS) performed by Rdi for the Bunker Hill Project.
+Added: 1-1 Locked-Cycle Test Process Flowsheet
+Added: stoping with fill (LHOS), cut-and-fill and possibly room-and-pillar mining with fill are the only methods viable for sustained operations
+Added: LHOS is the preferred mining method with limited cut-and-fill mining at Bunker Hill Mine.
+Added: Room-and-pillar mining is not in the
+Added: current plan.
+Added: Timbered ground support has been replaced with newer ground support technology of rock bolts, mesh, shotcrete and steel
+Added: sets as required.
+Added: in October of 2021 and completed in April of 2022, BHMC conducted a geotechnical investigation of the underground conditions at the Bunker
+Added: Data collection involved a data analysis of RQD values logged with previous exploration drilling, geotechnical logging of
+Added: recently drilled rock cores and an extensive investigation of pre-existing underground excavations and development.
+Added: Ground conditions
+Added: are generally good to excellent at Bunker Hill Mine and the rest of the mines in the Silver Valley.
+Added: Bunker Hill Mine does not have a
+Added: history of rock burst events that are frequent in the deeper mines to the east.
+Added: Hill plans to re-construct a crush-grind-flotation-concentration mill from the nearby Pend Oreille (PO) mine in northern Washington on
+Added: the Bunker Hill Kellogg Mine Yard.
+Added: There currently is a large building that housed the historic machine shop at the Bunker Hill mine
+Added: that will first need to be dismantled and removed for access to the existing slab.
+Added: The future structures to house the grind-flotation-concentration
+Added: circuit, as well as the secondary crushing circuit and concentrate storage facilities will need to be constructed.
+Added: process consists of a primary and secondary ore crushing circuit, then a primary grinding circuit followed by two separate flotation
+Added: circuits to recover lead, zinc, silver and gold into two separate concentrate products;
+Added: a lead, silver, gold concentrate and a zinc concentrate.
+Added: Approximately 648,000, short tons of ore will be processed a year at a rate of 1,800 stpd, or 79 stph at 95% availability.
+Added: 1-2 Bunker Hill Process Flowsheet
+Added: Exploration and Development
+Added: Hill has a rare exploration opportunity available at the Bunker Hill Mine and has embarked on a new path to fully maximize the potential.
+Added: A treasure trove of geologic and production data has been organized and preserved in good condition in the mine office since the shutdown
+Added: of major mine operations in the early 1980s.
+Added: This data represents 70+ years of proper scientific data and sample collection, with high
+Added: standards of accuracy and precision that were generally at or above industry standards at the time.
+Added: Company saw the wealth of information that was available but not readily usable and embarked on a scanning and digitizing program.
+Added: this they were able to build a 3D digital model of the mine workings and 3D surfaces and solids of important geologic features.
+Added: to this, all of the historic drill core lithology logs and assay data (>2900 holes) was entered into a database and imported with
+Added: the other data into Maptek Vulcan 3D software.
+Added: addition to both continued geologic digitization and the completed 2021 exploration drill program, the Company has performed a geophysical
+Added: survey over the summer of 2021.
+Added: The survey was conducted as a ground geophysical 3DIP survey through DIAS Geophysical Ltd out of Saskatoon,
+Added: Pre-Feasibility level analyses demonstrates that the restart of the Bunker Hill mine can reasonably be expected to generate a positive return
+Added: on investment with an after-tax IRR of 36% based on the reserves presented.
+Added: It is reasonable to expect the conversion of Inferred resources
+Added: to Indicated resources and indicated resources to measured resources to continue.
+Added: Inferred Mineral Resources are considered too geologically
+Added: speculative to have economic considerations applied to them to be classified as a Mineral Reserve.
+Added: Technical Report Summary is based on all available technical and scientific data available as of August 29, 2022.
+Added: Mineral Resources
+Added: are considered by the QP to meet the reasonable prospects of eventual economic extraction due two main factors;
+Added: 1) cut-off grades
+Added: are based on scientific data and assumptions related to the project and 2) Mineral Resources are estimated only within blocks of
+Added: mineralization that have been accessible in the past by mining operations as well as by using generally accepted mining and
+Added: processing costs that are similar to many projects in Idaho.
Recommendations
−Removed: Exploration programs should focus on the definition
−Removed: of silver resources.
−Removed: Silver resources that demonstrate the reasonable prospects of eventual economic extraction have been identified
−Removed: within the current mineral resource estimate.
−Removed: Significant silver mineralization encountered through exploration and past production suggests
−Removed: that these zones should be given as much weight as past Pb and Zn exploration and resource definition programs.
−Removed: Metallurgical test work should be completed and
−Removed: the results thoroughly analyzed in order to further refine metallurgical recovery and concentrate grade assumptions, and optimize flowsheet
−Removed: characteristics.
−Removed: Digitization of nearly 100 years of paper maps
−Removed: is nearing completion.
−Removed: In addition to unlocking the understanding of the geometry of the mineral deposit much of the information describes
−Removed: the mined-out portion of the Bunker Hill Mine.
−Removed: This will be critical for future mineral resource estimates as mined out voids need to
−Removed: be accurately defined.
−Removed: Results from the Technical Report PEA indicate
−Removed: that the Bunker Hill Mine may support a Preliminary Feasibility Study.
−Removed: Plant and backfill engineering and metallurgical testing are recommended.
−Removed: Used equipment estimates should also be procured.
−Removed: The Newgard, Quill and UTZ block model portion
−Removed: of the mine was initially scheduled based on a 5.0% zinc cutoff grade (not zinc equivalent) for the June 2021 Restart PEA in the upper
−Removed: majority zinc mineralization.
−Removed: The lower majority lead and silver mineralization used a 5.0% zinc equivalent.
−Removed: This lower section is not
−Removed: included in the block model and represents Bunker Hill Mine records at the time of closure.
−Removed: It is classified as inferred resource.
−Removed: Newgard, Quill and UTZ block model has been updated with NSR values to better represent actual zinc, lead and silver revenues.
−Removed: model NSR valuation change and the majority use of longhole stoping methods are the subject of this report.
−Removed: Additional drilling and mine block modeling should
−Removed: continue to increase the conversion of Inferred to Indicated Resources.
−Removed: Based on the aforementioned, the authors are not
−Removed: recommending successive phases of the work for the advancement of the project.
−Removed: Table 1-4 Proposed Budget for Project Advancement
−Removed: Exploration Drilling (includes labor and assaying)
−Removed: Metallurgical definition characteristics
−Removed: Surface Geophysics
−Removed: Ongoing Digital compilation of historical information
−Removed: Environmental Studies as part of care and maintenance
−Removed: Rehabilitation and Infrastructure Improvements
−Removed: Plant Engineering
−Removed: Hydraulic Backfill and Tailing Placement Engineering
−Removed: Mine Rehabilitation, Care and Maintenance
−Removed: Further details regarding the MRE, including estimation
−Removed: methodologies, can be found in the technical report which is filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement of which this prospectus
+Added: Continued analysis and interpretation of the geophysical
+Added: survey results should aid to guide future exploration activities outside of historical mine working areas.
+Added: Additional exploration drilling
+Added: with the advancement of underground mine development is also advised due to the proximity of future development to under-explored areas
+Added: of historical workings.
+Added: Continued digitization and interpretation of historical mapping and research will aid to guide future underground
+Added: and surface exploration activities.
+Added: Completion of issued for construction
+Added: (IFC) level drawings for the mineral processing facilities is recommended.
+Added: Completion of IFC level engineering
+Added: drawings related to the paste backfill plant are recommended.
+Added: Final tails product material generated from additional metallurgical testing
+Added: will work to optimize binder compositions and have the potential to reduce backfill OPEX costs.
+Added: Additional geotechnical studies
+Added: are recommended with the advancement of underground development.
+Added: Continued geotechnical diamond drilling associated with future resource
+Added: delineation and exploration drilling activities will provide a better sample set for rock strength testing and geotechnical logging.
+Added: underground development will also allow for the investigation of previously mined areas and association of historical span allowances
+Added: based on previous ground support methods.
+Added: Additional resource delineation and conversion drilling
+Added: and mine block modeling should continue to increase the conversion of Inferred to Indicated Resources.
+Added: 1-6 Proposed Work Program to Advance Bunker Hill
+Added: Interpretation and Additional Geophysics
+Added: Environmental
+Added: and Process Plant Engineering
+Added: Backfill and Tailing Placement Engineering
+Added: Recommended Budget
Infrastructure
−Removed: Mine main level is termed the nine level and is the largest level in the Mine.
−Removed: It is connected to the surface by the approximately 12,000-foot-long
−Removed: Kellogg Tunnel.
−Removed: Three major inclined shafts with associated hoists and hoistrooms are located on the nine level.
−Removed: These are the No.
−Removed: shaft, which is used for primary muck hoisting in the main part of the Mine;
−Removed: 2 shaft, which is a primary shaft for men and materials
−Removed: in the main part of the Mine;
−Removed: 3 Shaft, which is used for personnel, materials and muck hoisting for development in the northwest
−Removed: part of the Mine.
−Removed: top stations of these shafts and the associated hoistrooms and equipment have all been examined by Company personnel and are in moderately
−Removed: good condition.
−Removed: The Company believes that all three shafts remain in a condition that they are repairable and can be bought back into
−Removed: good working order over the next few years.
−Removed: water level in the Mine is held at approximately the ten level of the Mine, roughly 200 feet below the nine level.
−Removed: The Mine was historically
−Removed: developed to the 27 level, although the 25 level was the last major level that underwent significant development and past mining.
−Removed: level is approximately 200 feet vertically apart.
−Removed: south-eastern part of the Mine was historically serviced by the Cherry Raise, which consisted of a two-compartment shaft with
−Removed: double drum hoisting capability that ran at an incline up from the nine level to the four level.
−Removed: The central part of the Mine was serviced
−Removed: upward by the Last Chance Shaft from the nine level to the historic three or four level.
−Removed: Neither the Cherry Raise or the Last Chance
−Removed: shaft are serviceable at this time.
−Removed: However, the upper part of the Mine from eight level up to the four level has been developed by past
−Removed: operators by a thorough-going rubber tire ramp system, which is judged to be about 65% complete.
−Removed: Company has repaired the first several thousand feet of the Russell Tunnel, which is a large rubber-tire capable tunnel with an entry
−Removed: point at the head of Milo Gulch.
−Removed: This tunnel will provide early access to the UTZ Zone, and Quill and Newgard Zones, following ramp and
−Removed: access development.
−Removed: The Company has made development plans to provide interconnectivity of the ramp system from the Russell Tunnel at
−Removed: the four level down to the eight level, with further plans to extend the ramp down to the nine level.
−Removed: Thus rubber-tired equipment will
−Removed: be used for mining and haulage throughout the upper Mine mineral zones, which have already been identified, and for newly found zones.
−Removed: Kellogg Tunnel will be used as a tracked rail haulage tunnel for supply of personnel and materials into the Mine and for haulage of mined
−Removed: material out of the Mine.
−Removed: Historically, the Kellogg Tunnel was used in this manner when the Mine was producing upwards of 3,000 tons
−Removed: per day of mined material.
−Removed: The Company has inspected the Kellogg Tunnel for its entire length and has determined that significant timbered
−Removed: sections of the tunnel will need extensive repairs.
−Removed: These are areas that intersect various faults passing through the Kellogg Tunnel
−Removed: at normal to oblique angles and create unstable ground.
−Removed: Company has determined that all of the track, as well as spikes, plates and ties holding the track will need to be replaced, and has
−Removed: started that process in support of the on-going exploration program.
−Removed: Additionally, the water ditch that runs parallel to the track will
−Removed: need to be thoroughly cleaned out and new timber supports and boards that keep the water contained in its path will need to be installed.
−Removed: All new water lines, compressed air lines and electric power feeds will also need to be installed.
−Removed: The total cost estimate for this Kellogg
−Removed: Tunnel work is still in process as of the date hereof, but the time estimate for these repairs is approximately twelve months.
−Removed: Project Update:
−Removed: On March 22, 2022, the Company
−Removed: announced its plans to continue to advance technical studies to a level that will enable a construction decision to be made and a Pre-Feasibility
−Removed: Study (“PFS”) to be published during Q2 2022.
−Removed: The PFS will focus upon mining of Measured and Indicated Resources that maximize
−Removed: cash flow and returns on initial capital invested, leveraging existing infrastructure and the Pend Oreille process plant once it has
−Removed: been relocated to the Bunker Hill site.
−Removed: The Company aims to have the mine in commercial production by the end of 2023, in accordance
−Removed: with the summary timetable shown below.
−Removed: Bunker Hill Planned Development Timeline
−Removed: The technical
−Removed: studies to support both a PFS and a Construction Decision remain on track, with updates to some of the key and supporting activities
−Removed: detailed below:
−Removed: Technical Studies Update
−Removed: Currently In-Progress
−Removed: Plant Engineering
−Removed: drawings for processing plant and crushing gallery complete.
−Removed: Multiple simulation exercises have indicated reduced initial construction
−Removed: capital expenditures from PEA estimates.
−Removed: studies complete.
−Removed: These affirm preference for an underground location for the primary crushing circuit on Level 9, with milling and
−Removed: flotation circuits on surface within existing building.
−Removed: cost analysis, detailed construction planning and construction contractor negotiations on-going.
−Removed: and Backfill Plant Engineering
−Removed: paste plant design and location trade-offs on-going.
−Removed: trade-off analysis and mine scheduling on-going.
−Removed: analysis of back-fill requirements indicates significant cost savings from PEA estimates.
−Removed: Metallurgical
−Removed: studies continue to further optimize the mill and process flow sheet used in the PEA.
−Removed: Lock-Cycle Testing (LCT) on-going.
−Removed: and Associates study complete, supporting geotechnical assumptions made within the PEA.
−Removed: stope sequencing and optimization on-going.
−Removed: haulage trade-off studies complete.
−Removed: Crushed ore to be moved from UG crushing gallery to surface processing circuits via conveyor
−Removed: within the Kellogg Tunnel.
−Removed: Oreille Plant Demobilization
−Removed: Project/process
−Removed: plant manager appointed.
−Removed: demobilization planning on-going, set to meet timelines agreed with Teck, with cost estimates in line with PEA.
−Removed: Mining and Rehabilitation Activities
−Removed: (mining contractor) building organic capacity on site.
−Removed: This includes adding local staff and acquiring mining equipment including
−Removed: Rehabilitation
−Removed: of UTZ drift on 5-Level completed on schedule.
−Removed: construction of decline ramp to connect 5-Level with existing 6-level spiral ramp for rubber-tired equipment.
−Removed: Hill Surface Upgrades
−Removed: yard and surface facilities now cleared to accept Pend Oreille plant equipment.
−Removed: plans to upgrade electrical infrastructure to both Kellogg and Wardner Portal yards.
+Added: Bunker Hill complex is a mature mine with much of the underground infrastructure and development still in place.
+Added: The mill, smelter and
+Added: tailing impoundment have been removed and these sites have been reclaimed.
+Added: Part of the reclamation included surface water diversion structures
+Added: which are still in use and are maintained in good condition.
+Added: The original Bunker Hill mine offices, car and maintenance shops, and change
+Added: house are located near the Kellogg Tunnel (KT) portal and are in serviceable condition.
+Added: Hill is located in Kellogg Idaho along the Interstate 90 corridor on the west side of what is traditionally known as the Silver Valley.
+Added: It is 60 miles from the Spokane, WA airport to the west and 125 miles to the Missoula, MT airport to the east.
+Added: The Silver Valley of north
+Added: Idaho is a desirable place to live and is home to an enthusiastic and talented underground mining work force.
+Added: power requirements will be met with the Avista Kellogg substation, located next to the Bunker Hill main offices supplying power to the
+Added: mine and other local consumers.
+Added: There are two existing distribution lines now supplying the mine from the Kellogg Avista substation.
+Added: One feeds the surface mine facilities and the underground loads from the Kellogg side, the other feeds the Wardner mine yard and facilities.
+Added: The current 3-phase 2.5kV mine distribution system on the Kellogg side is in the process of being upgraded to 3-phase 13.2kV.
+Added: discharge water now gravity drains out the 9-level through the Kellogg Tunnel via a ditch adjacent to the rail line to the portal.
+Added: is then routed to a water treatment plant constructed by the EPA and currently operated by the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality
+Added: commissioned Patterson & Cooke North America to perform tradeoff studies for costing and operating the mine backfill and tailing
+Added: placement facilities.
+Added: Results from the tradeoff studies led to the location of the plant on surface, both adjacent to the mill and at
+Added: Tailings thickening will take place inside the mill/process facility building, with the underflow being pumped to the tailings
+Added: filtration plant located adjacent to the mill/process building.
+Added: Vacuum filtration will take the thickened tailings and produce a filter
+Added: cake material which will be deposited and stored in a load-out facility at the plant.
+Added: A surface loader will transfer the filter cake
+Added: tailings into overland haul trucks to deliver the material up to the Wardner side of operations along the return route from ROM ore haulage.
+Added: Once delivered to the storage facility at Wardner, material will be loaded into the paste plant, combined with an ordinary cement binder,
+Added: and subsequently pumped underground via a reticulated piping system.
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