Phase three of work to cap the Deloro Mine site, in the Marmora area, is expected to begin in the spring of this year.
The 32 year-old $31 million provincial cleanup of the Deloro Mine site is ready to take a major step to cap the contaminated site.
Ministry of Environment project manager, Heather Hawthorne, says work this spring will move into the industrial area to deal with hazardous waste and radio-active material, and protect it with an engineered cover.
Hawthorne says the province has now declared the Deloro mine site ”historically significant” since it was one of the first gold mines in Ontario, first producer of arsenic in North America, and the only producer of arsenic in North America until 1901.