The mine is located 230 km southsoutheast of Changchun, the capital city of Jilin province, and 7 km from the city of Baishan, a coal and iron ore mining center. Sino Gold owns 95% of the project and the surrounding 128 km2 of exploration licenses. Capital expenditures to develop the project totaled about $62.5 million.

Throughput at the White Mountain carbon-in-leach processing plant is planned at 650,000 mt/y, producing 65,000 oz/y of gold. The plant was built with Chinese equipment and is of a standard Chinese carbon-in-leach plant design. Overall gold recoveries are expected to average 80%.

White Mountain gold mineralization is hosted in a major northeast trending regional fault zone, with mineralization known to extend 1.5 km along strike. Ore reserves total 6.5 million mt, grading 3.8 g/mt gold and containing 784,000 oz; mineral resources total 12.4 million mt, grading 3 g/mt gold and containing 1.2 million oz.

White Mountain gold mineralization is primarily hosted by a silicified, pyritic breccia in a fault zone between hanging- wall quartzite and footwall silicified dolomite. The dip angle of the mineralized zone averages 45° to the southeast. Pyrite and barite are associated with the gold mineralization. Arsenic, antimony, and mercury levels are relatively low.

Ore is accessed via a decline and mined by open stoping where the orebody is thicker than 10 m. Cut-and-fill mining is used n the narrower portions of the deposit.

White Mountain is Sino Gold’s second producing mine in China. The company’s flagship operation is its 82%- owned Jinfeng mine, which produces about 180,000 oz/y of gold in Guizhou province.