- Mill Canyon is adjacent to Barrick Gold Corporation's 15 million ounce Cortez Mine and Cortez Hills gold development project. Barrick was a 60% owner of the Cortez Joint Venture until March of 2008 when it purchased the remaining 40% for $1.695 billion from Rio Tinto. In 2009 Victoria plans to conduct a preliminary economic study on the Higher Open Cut target at Mill Canyon, where previous drilling by Victoria has returned high-grade results over large widths, and to identify additional targets for drilling.

It's nice to know that your next door neighbor spent over 1.7 Billion on his land.

G.