Cenovus Energy Inc. and Imperial Oil Ltd. have increasingly turned to trains to move their crude, with oil exports by rail from Canada more than tripling since July.

The exploration campaign is part of the Barrick Alliance signed with Japan Gold in 2020.

Victims argued that the settlement was signed without their participation and that 20,000 people who were impacted by the disaster were excluded from the deal.

The deposit includes 2.6 million inferred tonnes at 9.53 g/t gold and contains 803,000 gold oz.

Country aims to produce more than 900,000 tonnes of copper in 2021.

The latest engineering study outlines an 8-year, approximately 6,925t/d heap leach open pit mine, producing an average of 80,000 gold oz. annually.