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[email protected]. This document has been issued in French under the title: Projet de mine d’or Goliath - Rapport provisiore d’évaluation environnementale Executive Summary Treasury Metals Inc. (the proponent) is proposing the construction, operation, decommissioning, and abandonment of an open-pit and underground gold mine and associated infrastructure. The Goliath Gold Project (the Project), located 20 kilometres east of the City of Dryden, Ontario, will have an ore production capacity of 5424 tonnes per day and an ore input capacity of 3240 tonnes per day with an anticipated mine and mill life of 12 years. Over the 12 years of operations, the average ore production and ore input capacity of the mine and mill would be 2700 tonnes per day. The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (the Agency) is carrying out an environmental assessment of the Project in accordance with the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012 (CEAA 2012). The Project is subject to CEAA 2012 because it involves activities described in the schedule to the Regulations Designating Physical Activities as follows: • item 16 (c) : the construction, operation, decommissioning and abandonment of a new rare earth element mine or gold mine, other than a placer mine, with an ore production capacity of 600 tonnes per day or more.