Heap Leach Pad Extends Life of Fort Knox

Fort Knox in mid-November poured its first gold dore’ bar produced from the recently completed valley heap leach facility, a project that will help add at least five years onto the life of mine. Crews completed the in-heap storage pond, placed liner for stage one of the heap leach, constructed a spillway and laid piping before mine crews began stacking gold-bearing crushed rock this fall.