Greenstone Photo Gallery

Building one of the largest gold mines in Canada

On track to pour gold in Q2 2024.

Construction Progress

April 2024

Commissioning

Crushed ore storage dome
Haul truck at crusher
Conveyor with ore feed to secondary crusher
Conveyor with ore feed to secondary crusher

First ore into the mill

AERIAL OVERVIEW

April 2024
March 2024
Feb 2024
Dec 29
Dec 29
Nov 24
Nov – Pit and plant site
Nov
Nov 2
Oct 6
Sept 22
Sept 22
Sept 7
Aug 20
Aug 20
Aug 20
Aug 20
Aug 20
Aug 20
Aug 20
Aug 20
July 21 – Project overview
July 21 – Aerial
July 14 – Aerial
July 14 – Aerial
July 10 – Aerial
June 21 – Aerial
June 12 – Aerial
June 6 – Aerial
May 10 – Aerial
May 1 , 2023
Apr 17, 2023
Mar 4, 2023
Jan 20, 2023
Jan 7, 2023
Dec 20, 2022
Dec 20, 2022
Dec 1, 2022
Nov 18, 2022
Oct 27, 2022
Oct 27, 2022
Oct 27, 2022
Oct 27, 2022
Oct 27, 2022
Oct 5, 2022
Sept 2, 2022
Aug 20, 2022
July 22, 2022
June 28, 2022
June 15, 2022
May 2022

WEST END MILL / MILL BUILDING

Nov 16 – East-End – Wet-Screen
Nov 8 – Mill buildings and ore storage dome
Nov 3 – West end storage tanks
Nov 3 – East end ball mills and screens
Oct 13 – looking southwest
Oct 13 – East end – wet screens
Oct 6 – Mill Building
Sept 22 – CIP Tanks
Sept 22 – Ball Mill
Sept 15 – CIP tanks
Sept 7 – Ball mill
Sept 7 – Mill building
Aug 18 – Ball mill
Aug 18 – Mill building conveyors and HPGR
Aug 18 – Process plant and power plant
Aug 18 – Dome cladding and plant site
Aug 10 – Mill gravity tower
Aug 10 – West end interior
Aug 10 – West end CIP tank piping
Aug 4 – East end ball mills
Aug 4 – Water transfer tank
Aug 4 – West end piping at tailings pumpbox
Aug 4 – West end CIP tank
July 28 – West End Top of CIP Tanks
July 28 – Carbon Safety Screen Discharge chute
July 28 – Carbon Reagents Filter Press Cable Trays
July 28 – East End Ball Mills
July 21 – East end ball mills
July 14 – Lime silo
July 14 – Carbon in pulp
July 14 – Ball mill
July 7 – West end lime and cyanide
July 7 – west end kiln
June 16 – Ball Mill
June 16 – Ball Mill
June 16 – HPGR
June 7 – Ball Mill
une 1 – East end mill building
June 1 – East end mill building
June 1 – West end mill building
May 26 – CIP Tanks – West End
May 26 – Gravity Tower outside east end mill building
May 26 – Ball Mill Installation
May 19 – Gravity Tower
May 10 – Ball Mill
May 10 – West end interior
May 5 – Ball Mill Shell Installation
May 1 – Fresh water pumps and reagent tanks
May 1 – Concrete in the elution area
May-1 – Electrowinning
April 17 – Erooms
Mar 4 – East end mill building
Mar 1 – Mill building
Feb 26 – East end mill building
Feb 17 – East end mill
Feb 20 – Roof on east end mill building
Feb 10 – East end mill
Feb 3 – East end mill
Jan 27 – East end interior
Jan 21 – West end interior
Jan 21 – East end mill
Jan 21 – West end with E room
Jan 13 – East end cladding
Jan 13 – East end roof
Jan 13 – West end interior
Jan 13 – West end interior
Jan 7 – East end steel
Jan 7 – East end steel
Dec 20 – East end steel
Dec 1 – East end of mill
Dec 1 – Mill building
Dec 1 – West end mill
Dec 1 – Interior
Dec 1 – Interior
Dec 1 – Mill interior
Nov 30 – East end mill
Nov 11 – Interior steel and CIP tanks
Nov 11 – E-rooms installed behind wall in west end
Nov 4 – CIP tank installation
Nov 11 – E-rooms and control rooms installed in east end
Nov 4 – East end foundation
Oct 7 – Mill building
Oct 7 – Mill building
Sept 23 – Mill building
Sept 23 – West end mill
Sept 7 – Mill building
Sept 7 – Mill building
Sept 7 – Mill building
Sept 7 – Mill building
Sept 7 – Mill building
Sept 7 – Mill building
Sept 7 – Mill building
Sept 7 – Mill building
Sept 7 – Mill building
Sept 7 – Mill building
Aug 25 – Mill building
Aug 25 – Mill building
Aug 18 – Mill building
Aug 18 – Mill building
Aug 18 – Mill building
July 25 – Mill building
July 25 – Mill building
June 24 – Mill building
June 24 – Mill building

CRUSHERS / HIGH PRESSURE GRINDING ROLLS

Nov 17 – HPGR – Dry-Screen
Nov – High pressure grinding rolls (HPGR) building
Nov – Primary and secondary crushers
Oct 6 – Primary and secondary crusher
Sept 29 – HPGR Chute and Screen
Sept 29 – Grinding and Wet Screen
Sept 22 – Conveyors at HPGR
Sept 15 – Secondary crusher
Sept 7 – Cyclone
Sept 7 – Grinding wet screen
Sept 7 – Gravity concentrators
Aug 18 – Secondary crusher
Aug 18 – Primary Crusher and rock breaker
Aug 18 – Cable trays under E-Room at HPGR
Aug 18 – Conveyor at Crusher
Aug 18 – Secondary crusher
Aug 11 – Conveyor belt install
Aug 4 – Conveyor
Aug 4 – HPGR
Aug 4 – Crusher
Aug 4 – Cyclone
July 28 – Crushers and crusher area retaining wall
July 28 – Conveyors between crusher and HPGR buildings
July 28 – Cyclone Installation
July 28 – HPGR
July 28 – HPGR
July 28 – Primary Crusher Dump Pocket with Overhead Crane
July 28 – Cladding of Staircase at Primary Crusher
July 7 – MSE Wall
July 7 – Cyclone
June 30 – MSE wall
June 30 – HPGR
June 30 – Transfer tower
June 30 – Conveyors
June 30 – Secondary Crushers
June 21 – HPGR
June 21 – MSE wall
June 21 – Gravity Tower
June 16 – Primary Crusher
June 16 – HPGR
June 7 – HPGR
June 7 – Secondary Crusher
June 7 – Gravity Tower and Conveyors
June 7 – Secondary Crusher
June 7 – Transfer Tower and HPGR
June 7 – HPGR
June 6 – HPGR Chute
June 6 – Conveyor and Transfer Tower
June 1 – Conveyor Install
June 1 – Gravity Tower
May 26 – HPGR
May 19 – HPGR
May 19 – Transfer Tower
May 19 – MSE Wall
May 10 – Secondary Crusher
May 10 – MSE Wall
May 10 – Conveyor/HPGR
May 5 – HPGR rebar
May 1 – Crusher and MSE wall
May 1 – MSE Wall
May 1 – Conveyors and HPGR
Apr 17 – Secondary Crusher
Mar 10 – HPGR Interior
Mar 4 – HPGR
Mar 1 – HPGR Interior
Feb 27 – HPGR
Feb 17 – HPGR roof enclosed
Feb 10 – HPGR Interior
Feb 10 – HPGR
Feb 3 – Crusher pad
Jan 27 – High pressure grinding rolls
Jan 21 – HPGR Exterior
Jan 21 – Primary (right) and secondary (left) crusher exterior
Jan 21 – Secondary crusher interior
Jan 13 – HPGR
Jan 13 – Crusher walls
Jan 7 – HPGR
Dec 20 – HPGR
Nov 18 – Crusher and MSE wall
Nov 11 – MSE wall crusher
Nov 4 – Cladding at HPGR
Nov 4 – Cladding at crusher
Oct 14 – HPGR
Oct 14 – HPGR
Oct 14 – Crushers
Sept 29 – HPGR steel
Sept 22 – Crusher
Sept 8 – HPGR
Sept 8 – HPGR
Sept 8 – HPGR
Aug 25 – HPGR steel
July 22 – Primary and secondary crushers

POWER PLANT

Aug 4 – Power plant
July 28 – Power plant
June 21 – Power plant
June 16 – Power plant
June 16 – Power plant
June 7 – Power plant
June 1 – Power plant stacks
June 1 – Power plant
May 26 – Power plant stacks
May 26 – Power Plant engine hall
May 19 – Power plant duct
May 5 – Cables at power plant
May 5 – Power plant
May 1 – Power plant radiator
April 14 – Power plant radiator
Feb 24 – Power plant exhaust
Feb 10 – Power plant exterior
Feb 3 – Power plant exterior
Jan 27 – Power plant starter air units
Jan 21 – Power plant exterior
Jan 13 – Power plant exterior
Jan 7 – Power plant interior
Dec 2 – Power plant fully closed
Dec 1 – Power plant interior
Nov 18 – Power plant interior work
Nov 11 – Four gensets installed
Nov 4 – First genset installation
Oct 14 – Gensets arriving in Longlac
Sept 9 – Gensets arriving in Thunder Bay
Sept 22 – Power plant containers
Sept 7 – Power plant
Aug 26 – Conveyor foundation with power plant in the background
Aug 19 – Power plant engine bases
July 22 – Power plant
July 7 – Power plant
June 28 – Power plant steel
June 24 – Power plant
June 15 – Power plant steel

LEACH TANKS

Nov 17 – Process Water and Pre-Leach thickener tanks filled
Nov – Pre-leach thickener, process plant and conveyors
Nov 3 – Pre-leach thickener
Oct 13 – Leach tanks
Oct 13 – Lime Silo
Oct 6 – Leach tanks
Oct 6 – Leach tank
Sept 30 – Leach tanks
Sept 30 – Pre-leach thickener
Sept 29 – Lime Silo
Sept 22 – Pre-leach thickener
Sept 15 – Pre-Leach Thickener and Leach Tanks
Sept 15 – Pre-Leach Thickener
Sept 15 – So2 System
Aug 18 – Containment walls at leach tanks
Aug 18 – Stairs at pre-leach thickener
July 28 – Pre-leach thickener
July 28 – Containment Walls between Leach and Detox
July 7 – Detox tanks
July 7 – Pre-leach thickener slab
July 7 – Leach tank agitators
July 7 – Pre-leach thickener
June 30 – Pre-leach
June 21 – Detox Tanks
June 7 – Pre-leach
June 6 – Leach tanks
June 6 – Leach tanks
June 1 – Pre-leach
May 26 – Oxygen Plant Foundation
May 26 – Thickener Bridge
May 10 – Pre-leach thickener
May 5 – Pre-leach thickener
May 1 – Pre-leach thickener tank plate installation
Apr 14 – Pre-Leach
Feb 24 – Leach tanks
Feb 10 – Leach tank interior
Feb 3 – Bridge work on leach tanks
Jan 27 – Bridge work on Leach tanks
Jan 21 – Leach tanks
Dec 20 – Aerial
Dec 3 – Bridge on leach tanks
Dec 1 – Leach tanks
Nov 18 – Leach tanks
Nov 18 – Bridge installation on leach tanks
Oct 14 – Aerial of leach tanks
Sept 29 – Leach tanks
Sept 7 – Leach tanks
Sept 9 – West end mill building and leach tanks
Aug 30 – Leach tanks
Aug 30 – Leach tanks
August 18 – Leach tanks
July 7 – Leach tank foundations
June 28 – Leach rings
June 24 – Leach rings

TRUCK SHOP / TRUCKS

Aug 4 – Haul Truck Parking and Pit Fuel Station
May 1 – Lube system
Mar 4 – Truck shop
Mar 4 – Piping in truck shop
Feb 10 – Truck shop interior
Jan 21 – Truck shop
Jan 7 – Truck shop interior
Dec 1 – Trucks shop
Dec 1 – Trucks shop
Dec 1 – Trucks shop
Dec 1 – Haul truck
Dec 1 – Trucks
Dec 1 – Trucks
Nov 18 – HVAC and piping work at truck shop
Oct 14 – Truck shop
Sept 7 – Trucks
Sept 7 – Trucks
Sept 7 – Trucks
Aug 26 – Truck shop
Aug 19 – Truck shop
July 22 – Trucks being assembled
July 19 – Trucks being assembled
June 15 – First truck being assembled
June 24 – Truck shop
June 24 – Truck shop
June 15 – Truck shop steel erection
May – Truck shop foundation

OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE

Jan 19 – Dome
Jan 19 – Conveyors
Dec 29
Nov 8 – Ore storage dome
Nov 3 – Ore storage dome
Oct 13 – Ore storage conveyor
Oct 13 – Ore Storage
Oct 6 – Conveyor to dome
Oct 6 – Dome
Sept 30 – Dome
Sept 29 – TMF
Sept 29 – Conveyor to dome
Sept 29 – Plant site
Sept 29 – Reclaim tunnel
Sept 22 – Dome cladding
Sept 7 – Dome cladding
Sept 7 – Dome cladding
Sept 7 – Dome cladding
Aug 10 – Tailings Management Facility, southeast dam
Aug 4 – Ore dome
July 28 – Dome and conveyors
July 28 – Conveyors
July 7 – Conveyors
June 7 – Ore Dome
June 1 – Ore Dome
May 19 – Ore dome
May 10 – Ore dome
May 5 – Ore dome
May 1 – Ore dome storage
April 14 – Conveyor
Feb 3 – Reclaim tunnel
Jan 27 – Hoarding for last conveyor pier by reclaim tunnel
Jan 7 – Reclaim tunnel
Dec 3 – Aerial of site mixed emulsion (SME) plant
Dec 2 – SME Plant – Process Equipment Installation
Dec 1 – Reclaim tunnel
Dec 1 – Reclaim tunnel
Nov 18 – Reclaim tunnel
Nov 4 – Main access road
Oct 20 – Start of steel site mixed emulsion (SME) plant
Oct 14 – Aerial of site mixed emulsion (SME) plant
Oct 14 – Ball mill shells
Oct 14 – Reclaim tunnel
Oct 14 – Reclaim tunnel
Oct 14 – TMF deep soil mixing test
Sept 29 – Reclaim tunnel wall
Sept 22 – Sunrise over plant site
Sept 7 – Admin building
Sept 7 – Natural gas pipeline
July – West dam foundation prep
May – Admin building
May – Admin building
May – Effluent water treatment plant
May – Tailings management facility

OFFSITE INFRASTRUCTURE

Sept 15 – Main entrance
Aug 10 – Main entrance
July 14 –
July 7 – HWY 11
Dec 20 – Haul Road (left side) and Main Access Road (right side)
Nov 18 – Enbridge sales metering station
Sept 22 – HWY quarry
Sept 9 – HWY 11
Sept – Aerial of Ministry of Transportation Ontario (MTO) patrol yard
Aug 26 – Sand dome
Aug 26 – Salt dome
July – MTO Patrol Yard
July – HWY 11

GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY

Oct 27 – Groundbreaking Ceremony – Knowledge Keeper Andrea Onabigon Long La

Oct 27 – Groundbreaking Ceremony – Chief Desmoulin, Long Lake 58
Oct 27 – Groundbreaking Ceremony – Chief Taylor, Ginoogaming
Oct 27 – Groundbreaking Ceremony – Chief Nelson, Aza
Oct 27 – Groundbreaking Ceremony – Chief Toweda, Aroland
Oct 27 – Groundbreaking Ceremony – Mr. Gordon, Métis Nation of Ontario
Oct 27 – Groundbreaking Ceremony – Mayor Renald Beaulieu
Oct 27 – Groundbreaking Ceremony – Hon. Greg Rickford, Minister of Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry and Minister of Indigenous Affairs

Oct 27 – Groundbreaking Ceremony – Hon. Greg Rickford, Minister of Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry and Minister of Indigenous Affairs

Oct 27 – Groundbreaking Ceremony – Eric Lamontagne, General Manager, Greenstone Gold Mine

Oct 27 – Groundbreaking Ceremony – Ross Beaty, Chairman, Equinox Gold

Oct 27 – Groundbreaking Ceremony

Oct 27 – Groundbreaking Ceremony

Oct 27 – Groundbreaking Ceremony

Oct 27 – Groundbreaking Ceremony

Oct 27 – Groundbreaking Ceremony

Oct 1 – Environmental
Oct 1 – Environmental
Oct 1 – Environmental
Oct 1 – Construction team
Oct 1 – Construction team
Oct 1 – Construction team
Oct 1 – Construction team
Oct 1 – Construction team
Oct 1 – Construction team
Oct 1 – Construction team
Oct 1 – Safety services on site
Oct 1 – Welcome to camp
Oct 1 – Road building
Oct 1 – Team vehicles
Oct 1 – Water treatment plant
Oct 1 – Construction camp and facilities

Growth projects

Equinox Gold is advancing expansion projects at three of its operating mines.

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