Powerpoint Slides - Resource Development Council

Ten years in production
2006 - 2016
Chris Kennedy, General Manager
First Things First
Your support helped to make Pogo what it is today:
the richest underground gold mine in Alaska today!
Pogo Mine
An underground gold mine in
•  Small footprint
Alaska with outstanding safety and •  Outstanding performance
environmental performances
•  Large potential
Who is Pogo?
•  Joint venture
•  Sumitomo Metal Mining (85%)
•  Sumitomo Corporation (15%)
•  Managed locally by
employees with significant
knowledge and experience in
the mining industry
•  Employees and family are
important!
Ten years
TIME
be it in hours, days or
years,
flies by quickly and
seem to go even faster
as Time goes by!
Personal log books
2005 - 2016
Lower camp construction
2005
Exploration camp/warehouse yard
Today
Contractor camp
Today
Early road construction
Road construction
Road travel today
Pogo today
Mill bench construction
Mill bench construction
Mill complex construction
Mill complex construction
Main camp facility construction
“Blue tube” construction
Upper (main) camp construction
Summer contractor camp (overflow)
Tails facility construction
•  Drystack
•  New Diversion Ditch
Construction
Floods
2006
Floods
2013
ER-1 fire – 2006/2007
ER-1 fire – 2006/2007
ER-1 fire – 2006/2007
Rebuilding after ER-1 fire
Gilles Creek fire – 2009
Gilles Creek fire - 2009
Gilles Creek fire - 2009
Gilles Creek fire - 2009
Gilles Creek fire - 2009
East Deep
•  14 ft diameter ventilation shaft
•  1256 ft long
•  Raisebore
East Deep
Underground Development
Blue = ramp design Green
= ramp advance to
date
Red = stope production to
date
731,000 tons mined
(2013 to 2015)
Exploration – 2006: $2.5M
Exploration – 2016: $10M
We’re about our people
We’re about our people
Pogo: A place people want to come to work!
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Celebrating milestones
Celebrating holidays
Celebrating successes
Family Days
Special events
First gold bar - 2006
First gold bar - 2006
Mining done right
Strong culture of
values among ALL
employees:
•  Safety
•  Environmental
First annual Family Day- 2006
Annual Family Day
Annual Family Day
Pogo Cup golf tournament
Holiday cheer
Yes, there is a Santa
Celebrating milestones
Achieved 3,000,000 ounces of gold
produced in 2015
The Pogo Journey
•  Discovered in 1991
•  1997-99 drilling confirmed major gold
resource
•  2000: permit application initiated
•  January 2005: underground
development began
•  February 12, 2006: first gold poured
•  June 9, 2008: 500,000 ounce gold
poured
•  October 2009: 1 millionth ounce
poured
•  July 2012: 2 millionth ounce poured
•  September 2015: 3 millionth ounce
poured
Here’s to 10 more years!
PogoMineAlaska.com