BAKER MILL

Sable owns and operates the fully permitted Baker Mill, which has a current flow-through capacity of 250 ton-per-day. This capacity is easily expandable to 500 ton-per-day with the addition of a second ball mill, which would be housed in the existing mill.

The Baker Mill was designed and constructed in the late 1970’s by Kilborn Engineering (Vancouver) for DuPont Canada. The Mill was designed to process 100 tons-per-day of ore. The ore was treated by crushing, grinding and cyanidation of the total mill feed. Gold & silver was then recovered in a Merrill-Crowe Plant.

When Sable purchased the Baker Mill in 1989, significant changes were made to the process flowsheet. Flotation cells were added downstream of the grinding circuit, and the process was then changed to Cyanide In Leach. These process changes allow only the gold and silver-bearing minerals to have contact with the cyanide solution, with the waste rock going directly to tailings.

These changes increased mill throughput to 250 ton-per-day, and allowed for the flexibility of producing copper/gold flotation concentrates, for direct shipment, as well as production of dore (gold and silver bars).

Electric power for the Plant and camp is supplied by three Company-owned diesel-electric generators. Cooling water from the generators is used to heat the mill building during the winter months.

Sable has the capacity to store up to one million litres of diesel fuel on-site, and has additional fuel tank storage at the nearby Sturdee Airstrip to support year round operation.

In addition to the plant facilities, Sable owns mobile equipment, underground mining equipment, ore haulage trucks, and surface & underground core drilling equipment.