The Canadian Press Work has been temporarily stopped at a mine in central Yukon after what the company says was a failure of its system that uses chemicals to help extract gold. Victoria Gold said in a statement Monday that its heap leach pad at the Eagle Gold Mine near Mayo experienced a failure, causing some damage to infrastructure and that “a portion of the failure has left containment.” Heap leaching uses chemicals to percolate through crushed ore, allowing it to extract gold. A technical report on the company’s website says gold at the Eagle Gold Mine is being leached with a cyanide solution. A statement from the First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun, whose traditional territory includes the mine site, said it is concerned about the “potentially significant and…
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