埃科湾矿山公司所属卢平(Lupin)矿位于北极圈南50英里、耶洛奈夫东北250英里的康特威吐湖畔,地处加拿大西北地区冰冻的“荒原”上,后勤工作极为棘手,矿山的生产设备及生活物资全靠空运。该公司克服了许多困难,已成功地将此穷乡僻壤的卢平矿扩建为加拿大第二大金矿。1983年,卢平矿在其投产第一年产金118,000盎司,1984年预计回收金178,000 The Lupine mine owned by Arkaow Mine Company, located 50 miles south of the Arctic Circle and 250 miles northeast of Yellowknife on the frozen “wilderness” of Northwest Canada, Mine production equipment and living supplies by air. The company has overcome many difficulties and has successfully expanded this lush lupine mine into Canada’s second-largest gold mine. In 1983, Lupine produced 118,000 ounces of gold in the first year of its operation, and 178,000 in 1984