WHITEHORSE — Yukon government mining officials say a recent slide of ore at a gold mine in the territory was the second such failure this year.

Russell McDiarmid, the government’s head of major mines, says they’re hoping to get test results back next week to find out if the latest slide in a heap-leach facility at Victoria Gold’s Eagle Mine led to a cyanide spill in nearby creeks.

WHITEHORSE — Yukon government mining officials say a recent slide of ore at a gold mine in the territory was the second such failure this year.{ai:summary}<p>McDiarmid led the investigation into the ore slide at Eagle Mine, while anxiously awaiting test results to determine possible cyanide contamination of nearby creeks in Whitehorse, Yukon #environment</p>

Ore slide at Yukon's Victoria Gold mine not the first failure: government officials

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