A Timmins area mining company has been fined $60,000 for contraventions of the Lakes and Rivers Improvement Act.
Liberty Mines, recently renamed Northern Sun Mining, was charged by the Ministry of Natural Resources following a minor breech in its tailings dam in 2010.
The mine and tailings dam are located about 20 kilometres south of South Porcupine.
Justice of the Peace Sylvie-Émanuelle Bourbonnais heard the case in the Ontario Court of Justice in Timmins, Oct. 31.
The court heard that after receiving approval to build a tailings impoundment dam in 2006, Liberty Mines failed to meet conditions of that approval.
MNR engineers found that the dam was built outside the specifications of the engineered structure and that the company neglected to build a control spillway as designed.
