Court appoints receiver at Yukon mine after cyanide-contaminated ore slide: minister

WHITEHORSE — A judge has granted an order appointing a receiver to take control of assets at a gold mine closed after a massive slide of cyanide-contaminated ore in June, Yukon’s justice minister said.

Tracy-Anne McPhee said in a statement Wednesday that the government had petitioned the Ontario Superior Court of Justice for the receiver after it lost confidence that Victoria Gold would take seriously the health, safety and environmental consequences of the failure at the Eagle Gold mine.

McPhee said PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc. would administer the assets and liabilities formerly under the control of Victoria Gold at the direction of the territorial government and under the supervision of the

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