The Sä Dena Hes mine is a lead-zinc mine located 45 km north of Watson Lake on the Traditional Territory of the Kaska Dena Council. The Sä Dena Hes mine is currently in a state of permanent closure.
For information on the status of the mine and licensing documents, email the Mineral Resources Branch at emr-qml@yukon.ca.
The following documents are only available in English. We’ll update this page as we create and modify licensing documents.
Documents we're reviewing
North Embankment Upgrade Project Plan (March 2024; 33,273.92 KB)
Quartz mining licences
Quartz mining licence QML–0004 (December 2015; 241.22 KB)
Correspondence
There are no documents at this time.
Development and operational plans
Surface mining plans
There are no documents at this time.
Underground mining plans
There are no documents at this time.
Processing facilities plans
There are no documents at this time.
Mine waste management plans
There are no documents at this time.
Health and safety plans
There are no documents at this time.
Environmental and socio-economic plans
- Post-reclamation adaptive management plan (June 2016; 6,693 KB)
- Environmental monitoring, surveillance and reporting plan (June 2016; 21,262 KB)
Reclamation and closure plans
- Detailed decommissioning and reclamation plan: August 2015 update (August 2015; 12,647.06 KB)
- Detailed decommissioning and reclamation plan: appendices (August 2015; 553,825.73 KB)
- Updated aquatic ecological risk assessment (November 2015; 56,221.85 KB)
- Updates to the April 2014 human health risk assessment (November 2015; 7,135.52 KB)
Financial security
Decommissioning site audit and determination of financial security (November 2014; 55.88 KB)
Correspondence
There are no documents at this time.
Reporting and inspections
Annual reporting
- 2016 annual report (March 2017; 29,341.83 KB)
- 2017 annual reclamation report (March 2018; 637.07 KB)
- 2018 annual reclamation report (March 2019; 95,189.0 KB)
- 2019 annual report (March 2020; 27,881.37 KB)
- 2020 annual report (March 2021; 18,734 KB)
- 2021 annual report (March 2022; 16,658 KB)
- 2022 annual report (March 2023; 91,957 KB)
- 2023 annual report (March 2024; 4,696 KB)
Physical reporting
- 2016 annual physical inspection report (October 2016; 12,728.97 KB)
- 2017 annual physical inspection report (December 2017; 38,008 KB)
- 2018 annual physical inspection report (November 2018; 16,246.41 KB)
- 2019 annual physical inspection report (November 2019; 36,034 KB)
- 2020 annual physical inspection report (October 2020; 34,803 KB)
- 2021 annual physical inspection report (December 2021; 13,292 KB)
- 2022 annual physical inspection report (November 2022; 34,690 KB)
- 2023 geotechnical inspection report (August 2023; 12,214 KB)
- 2023 tailings management area geotechnical inspection report (August 2023; 17,047 KB)
Mine development reporting
There are no documents at this time.
Environmental reporting
There are no documents at this time.
Socio-economic reporting
There are no documents at this time.