Northern Star sets golden records at its Pogo Mine Photo Courtesy Northern Star Resources Northern Star’s Pogo Mine is expected to produce upwards of 250,000 ounces of gold over the next year and 300,000 ounces in the year to follow.
Under mining company’s first major asset outside of Australia. “While the Pogo operation is cur- rently our only asset in North Ameri- ca, it is a very good one to have,” said Luke Creagh, Northern Star Resourc- es’ chief operating officer of the Pogo Mine and Yandal operation in Austra- lia. Realizing Pogo’s full potential, however, was beleaguered by a rash of COVID-19 cases that swept through the camp at the remote Alaska mine during 2020. Despite the coronavirus setbacks at this mine half a world away from cor-
porate headquarters, Creagh said Pogo continued to be cashflow-positive af - ter funding its own exploration and growth capital. An accomplishment he is quick to attribute to the Alaskans working at and supporting the mine. “I would like to extend a massive thank you and recognize the efforts of our workforce and business part- ners over in Alaska,” he said during Northern Star’s Investor Day pre- sentation on July 22. “Like so many others around the world, they worked diligently and responsibly through the coronavirus pandemic to continue operations and have set Pogo up for
Aussie company’s Alaska mine yields 60,968 ounces in Q2 BY SHANE LASLEY, NORTH OF 60 MINING NEWS Northern Star Resources Ltd.’s late 2018 acquisition of the Pogo gold mine in Alaska’s Goodpaster Mining Dis- trict was celebrated as both good news for the future of the underground gold mine and the rapidly expanding Down
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The Alaska Miner
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