Ming mine

Site location with an infrastructure is only second to the resources themselves when it comes to a successful mine and few projects are better equipped in both categories than Rambler Metals and Mining and its Ming Mine.

Located with a provincial highway at its front gate, the Ming Copper-Gold Mine is on the Baie Verte Peninsula on the north east shore of Newfoundland. It’s in an area that has a history and culture of gold, base metals and industrial minerals mining going back to the early 1800s.

The Ming Mine initially opened in 1972 and just 10 years later, it closed again over a property boundary dispute after mining 2.1 million tons of ore at an average grade of 3.5% copper and 2.4 g/t gold.

Over the years, the mine was allowed to flood and with the exception of some brief activity in the mid 1990s, it remained shuttered until Rambler Metals and Mining came along in 2001 and started investing in the mine’s road to recovery.

Like many abandoned mines, Rambler knew that the Ming Mine still contained valuable resources and through an extensive assessment and evaluation program, the company moved forward with refurbishing the Ming operation.  More than a decade later, “Rambler” and “Ming” are names synonymous with “Copper and Gold Mining” in Newfoundland.

What’s also keeping Rambler Metals and Mining in the headlines is the company’s declaration of commercial production November 1, 2012.  Rambler has the ability to switch from copper to gold production depending on the ore’s profitability and changing markets where the commissioning of a newly constructed copper concentrator in May 2011 made this possible. Most recently, Rambler’s first shipment of 8,873 wet metric tonnes of copper concentrate has been loaded and shipped; a high grade copper ore blended at an average run of mine grade of 3.25% copper with 1 g/t gold.