14 March 2018
Sabina Gold & Silver Corp is pleased to announce it has received its type B water license from the Nunavut Water Board for the company’s 100% owned Back River Gold Project in Nunavut, Canada. Following receipt of the project certificate for Back River in December 2017, marking the end of the environmental assessment phase for the Goose mine, Sabina submitted various licenses and work authorization applications to advance development of the project.
Two particularly important licenses are the type A and type B water licenses, for which applications were submitted in October and November 2017.The Type B water license that has been issued by the NWB is a key authorization to complete work planned for the project in 2018.The type B water license permits Sabina to complete pre-construction infrastructure works, including preparing the marine laydown area to receive necessary fuel, equipment, and supplies to the Back River Project, as well pre-development earthworks to establish all weather roads between the deposits, camp sites, tailings storage facility and the mill site.