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Pure Gold Mining’s Madsen-Red Lake Mine aims to produce its first gold in 2020 and is a practical example of sustainability. We are rising to the challenge of reopening an abandoned gold mine that was built in the 1930s and made no provision for future mine reclamation. Using a carefully designed operations and closure plan, the Madsen Red Lake Gold Mine is being reopened to exceed modern environmental and engineering standards. The carefully considered plan for new operations sees the introduction of water treatment, material harvesting and progressive closure, reclamation and the restoration of productive ecosystems.

At the end of mine life, all surface disturbances will be reclaimed, along with past mining impacts. The Madsen-Red Lake Gold Mine will also become a major local employer to the northern Ontario community at a time when production and local employment are in decline. Established relationships and partnerships with local suppliers, community, and Indigenous groups are driving Madsen-Red Lake Mine to become the future of the region.

This is how Pure Gold is contributing to the future legacy of mining. Creating opportunity to grow new resource production in a safe, sustainable environment and improve upon the industrial practices of the past. With this new investment, we are putting our words into action and setting the bar for projects to follow.

Mining companies are on the front lines of discovery, development and job creation. We are creating the supply chain of materials necessary for our modern lives. And for a cleaner environment. But it is also up to us to set the benchmark for mining now and in the future. We are stewards for natural resources. For those of us who are on the front lines, I say, who better to lead the way?

Mark O’Dea is founder and chairman of Vancouver-based Oxygen Capital. Adam Buchanan is manager of investor relations at Pure Gold Mining Inc. Adrian O’Brien is director of marketing and communications for Pure Gold Mining Inc.

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