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B2Gold ahead of Back River schedule

B2Gold, one of the best mine builders in the gold business, is getting ahead on the development scheduled of its Goose mine in Nunavut, Canada, which it obtained earlier this year through the acquisition of Sabina Gold and Silver, chief executive Clive Johnson told Mining Journal at the at the 2023 Gold Forum Americas in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Paul Harris in Colorado Springs, Colorado
B2Gold's Back River in Nunavut, Canada

B2Gold's Back River in Nunavut, Canada

In addition to having built several miners over the past decade, the B2Gold team also has mine-building experience in a similar Arctic environment when it built the Kupol mine in Russia while at Bema Gold....

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