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PLANT AND EQUIPMENT AND CONSTRUCTION IN PROGRESS (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2018
PLANT AND EQUIPMENT AND CONSTRUCTION IN PROGRESS |
Schedule of property and equipment |
|  | December 31, 2018 |  | December 31, 2017
Land |  | $ | 8,699 |  | $ | 8,699
Plant and equipment |  |  | 49,578 |  |  | 43,257
Construction-in-progress |  |  | 74,643 |  |  | 8,178
Subtotal |  | $ | 132,920 |  | $ | 60,134
Less: accumulated depreciation |  |  | (18,186) |  |  | (9,088)
|  | $ | 114,734 |  | $ | 51,046
Schedule of construction-in-progress costs |
|  | December 31, 2018 |  | December 31, 2017
Gold Bar project |  | $ | 72,425 |  | $ | 6,011
Black Fox mine |  |  | 118 |  |  | 67
Fenix project |  |  | 2,100 |  |  | 2,100
|  | $ | 74,643 |  | $ | 8,178

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