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Eldorado Gold Corporation is a Canadian company that owns and operates gold mines in Turkey, Greece and Canada. Since its merger with European Goldfields in 2011 the company has been pursuing the development of the Skouries mine , Olympias mine and Stratoni mine in Greece.
Eldorado Resources was a Canadian mining company active between 1926 and 1988. [1] The company was originally established by brothers Charles and Gilbert LaBine as a gold mining enterprise in 1926, [ 2 ] but transitioned to focus on radium in the 1930s and uranium beginning in the 1940s.
The legendary king of El Dorado being anointed with gold dust by his attendants. El Dorado (Spanish: [el doˈɾaðo], English: / ˌ ɛ l d ə ˈ r ɑː d oʊ /) is a mythical city of gold supposedly located somewhere in South America. The king of this city was said to be so rich that he would cover himself from head to foot in gold dust ...
In December 2011 Eldorado Gold initiated a $2.5 billion friendly takeover of European Goldfields. [3] The deal came just after Centerra Gold attempted to buy the company and just before European Goldfields was to vote on a $750m (£479m) credit deal offered to it by Qatar Holdings, to finance the Skouries and Olympias gold projects. [4]
Skouries is a gold-copper porphyry deposit centred on a small, pencil-porphyry stock that intruded schist and gneiss of the Paleozoic Vertiskos Formation of the Serbo-Macedonian Massif in northeastern Greece. The porphyry is characterized by at least four intrusive phases that are of monzonite to syenite composition, but contain an intense ...
Certej contains proven and probable reserves of approximately 2.5 million ounces of gold and 16.3 million ounces of silver. [1] The project is owned by Eldorado Gold, a Canadian gold and base metals producer. The project involves mining and processing of approximately 3 million tonnes of ore per annum over a mine life of 15 years.
The Kışladağ mine [1] is the largest gold mine in Turkey. The mine is operated by the Canadian mining company Eldorado Gold. [2] [3] The mine is located in Uşak Province in western Turkey and is an open pit operation that uses heap leaching for gold recovery. [4]
Founding Eldorado Gold Mines Gilbert A. LaBine , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] OC (10 February 1890 – 8 June 1977) was a Canadian prospector who, in 1930, discovered radium and uranium deposits at Port Radium , Northwest Territories .