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 Drill pads and roads at the True North Deposit |
 Initial development of the open pit and waste rock dumps |
 Mining in the Hindenberg, the first pit at True North |
 Ore is trucked 12 miles to the Fort Knox mine |
 On Cleary Summit, a new road was constructed specifically to haul ore from the satellite pit to the Fort Knox mill |
 The haul road required a new underpass on the Steese Highway |
 Although most of the haul road is private, there are sections where the public shares the road with the ore haul trucks |
 60-ton ore trucks, some with tandem trailers, haul ore 24 hours a day, 365 days a year |
 For Cleary Summit neighbors, dust, noise and light pollution are negative impacts of the operation |