The open-pit Detour Lake operation is the largest gold producing mine in Canada with the country's largest gold mineral reserves. It has a mine life into the 2050s.
Located within the northernmost Abitibi Greenstone Belt, the mine was originally owned by Placer Dome and operated primarily as an underground mine from 1987 to 1990. Production resumed in 2013 as an open-pit mine under the ownership of Detour Gold Corporation. Agnico Eagle acquired its interest in the Detour Lake mine on February 8, 2022, via the merger of equals with Kirkland Lake Gold Ltd.
Ore is processed using a conventional crushing, grinding, gravity, cyanidation and carbon-in-pulp processing facility to recover gold.