TMAC's Hope Bay mine achieves key milestone

TMAC Resources Inc. May 23 announced that commercial production has been achieved at its Doris gold mine and mill at the company's Hope Bay property in Nunavut.

The company said the processing plant at Hope Bay has been operating at greater than 60 percent of its 1,000-metric-ton-per-day capacity since early April and averaged 80 percent of capacity during the first half of May. TMAC said it is ma...