The first major gold mine in recent years in Arizona, traditionally a copper-mining state, is on track to start production this fall, a spokesman for Vancouver, Canada-based Northern Vertex said Monday.
"We're scheduled to pour gold by the end of November," Christopher Curran said in an interview about the Moss gold/silver mine. "We're on time and on budget" for the $36 million project near Bullhead City in Mohave County in northwestern Arizona.
The project is awash in firsts: It is not only the company's first mine, it is the first gold mine in recent memory in Arizona, according to Suzanne Kinney, interim manager for the Arizona Mining Association.
Kinney noted in an email that "people have been prospecting for gold in Arizona since our territorial days over a century ago. However, the Moss gold-silver project will be the first major gold mine of its type in Arizona."
Source: Platts