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At 5:30 a.m. June 24 at Victoria Gold‘s (TSX:VGCX) Eagle Mine site in Yukon Territory, approximately 4 million tonnes of material crumbled down the hillside. Of that, two million tonnes of material breached containment due to the heap leach facility failure during the disaster. The Government of Yukon has now stepped in and issued an application for receivership of the company and its assets to ensure proper measures are taken to “address human health and safety and environmental risks and impacts.” The Ontario Supreme Court of Justice approved the application and appointed PricewaterhouseCoop…

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