type public industry gold mine founded 1976 1 headquarters toronto ontario canada key people rowland uloth presisent & ceo number of employees 130 2 website www.wesdome.com wesdome gold mines ltd. tsx wdo is a mining exploration and development company based in toronto ontario focused primarily on gold . wesdome gold mines inc. was created as a joint venture in 1976 for the purpose of exploring and developing the wesdome property in val d or . wesdome derives its name from the joint venture between western quebec mines inc. and dome mines ltd. in 1997 western quebec mines bought out dome mines interest . in 1999 wesdome gold mines inc. became a publicly listed company . wesdome gold mines proceeded with its advanced exploration and development on the wholly owned property . in december 2003 western quebec mines inc. purchased the kiena complex and subsequently put the property into wesdome gold mines inc. completing and consolidating the wesdome land package around lac de montigny . wesdome gold mines val d or assets include 7 500 hectares of wholly owned property on the kiena wesdome shawkey and siscoe properties as well as a 920 metre shaft 2000 tpd cip mill and extensive surface and underground infrastructure . on february 1 2006 river gold mines ltd. merged with wesdome gold mines inc to create wesdome gold mines ltd. wdo tsx . river gold mines ltd. was formed in 1994 to consolidate ownership of the eagle river property located 50 km west of wawa ontario . in the low gold price environment from 1997 to 2002 all other known gold deposits and mining infrastructure in the mishibishu greenstone belt were acquired . to date the wawa assets have produced in excess of 1 000 000 ounces of gold from three mining projects . wesdome gold mines wawa assets include 5200 hectares of wholly owned property on the eagle river and mishi properties a 580 metre shaft a 1000 tpd merril crowe milling facility and over 75 kilometres of underground development . on july 10 2007 wesdome gold mines ltd. merged with western quebec mines inc. in doing so wesdome added 1000 contiguous hectares to its already large val d or land package removed the controlling shareholder and simplified its corporate structure . environmental issues on february 22 2016 wesdome gold mines ltd. was convicted of discharging tailings into mirion creek between january 1 2012 and may 7 2013 . these discharges were not reported to the ministry of the environment and climate change moecc and were revealed by a joint investigation by the moecc and environment canada . wesdome gold mines ltd. has now been placed on the moecc s environmental offenders registry . in 2016 wesdome gold mines ltd. applied to the moecc to use a waterbody adjacent to their eagle river milling complex to deposit tailings waste in . the tailings will be coming from the mishi open pit mine the edwards mine and the eagle river milling complex . these are existing operations which will be expanding their production . finance wesdome gold mines ltd. trades on the tsx exchange under the symbol wdo and has 102.0 million shares outstanding . 1 references edit a b wesdome gold mines ltd. private company information businessweek . businessweek . retrieved 2008 10 23 . company profile for wesdome gold mines ltd ca ; wdo . retrieved 2008 10 17 . external links edit wesdome gold mines retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title wesdome gold mines & oldid 708253471 categories companies listed on the toronto stock exchangecompanies based in torontogold mining companies of canadahidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 4 march 2016 at 14 59 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view