Agnico plans to invest $1.2 billion in gold projects in Canada's north

Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. plans to invest more than $1.2 billion in Canada's subarctic in the next three years as it builds one new mine and expands another.

North America's fourth-largest gold miner by market value is moving ahead with plans to develop its Meliadine project and a deposit near its Meadowbank mine in Nunavut, the company said today in its fourth-quarter earnings statement. The decision will boost Agnico's gold production to 2 million ounces a year by 2020, about 20 percent more than last year's output of 1.66 million ounces.

"This is very much low-risk, high-quality growth because it's an extension of what we've been doing for the last many, many years," Chief Executive Officer Sean Boyd said in an interview at the company's Toronto offices. ...

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