A former mining reality TV star has pled guilty to charges for failing to properly decommission a placer mining site.

Kenneth Foy, who was featured on the reality series Yukon Gold, pled guilty to four charges under the territorial Placer Mining Act on Tuesday afternoon.

He is scheduled to be sentenced for the charges on Oct. 5.

According to court documents, on June 16, 2014, Foy failed to comply with several conditions of an approved class 4 Placer Mining Operation Plan. These conditions were:

• re-establishing all disturbed areas in a condition conducive to successful re-vegetation;

• re-sloping, contouring or otherwise stabilizing disturbed areas to prevent long-term soil erosion, slumping, and subsidence; and

• at final decommissioning of the site, removing everything, including all buildings, machinery, materials, fuel drums, used hydrocarbons, unburied solid waste, and metal waste, including junked vehicles.

The Port Moody, B.C. resident also pled guilty to making a false or misleading statement to an inspector on Aug. 7, 2015.

Foy ran a placer mining operation from the spring of 2012 to June 2014 on Moose Creek approximately 125 kilometres from Dawson City along the Top of the World Highway.

Authorizations for the operation, a water licence and placer mining operation plan, expired on June 1, 2014.

The operation spanned 26 placer claims in an area 610 metres wide by four kilometres long.

It involved stripping organic overburden, diverting the watercourse, excavating gravel material, running it through one of two sluice plants and depositing tailings in large piles.

Equipment used and maintained at the site during the height of the operation included a bulldozer, three excavators, and two sluice plants, as well as three to four crew trucks and five camper-style trailers.

Waste on the mining site was disposed of at a dedicated “bone yard” or waste disposal site either on the ground or buried.

According to the agreed statement of facts filed with the court, Foy was reminded by a natural resource officer of his obligations to conduct reclamation before the expiry of his authorizations on June 1, 2014.

But by May 2015, almost a year later, Foy had yet to comply. The officer then directed him to complete cleanup and removal of the camp area by July 1 and the remainder of the reclamation requirements by Sept. 30.

In July 2015, Foy said he had completed the cleanup, however on site the officer discovered that the cleanup was not in compliance with the operation plan.

The site had not been fully stabilized to prevent soil erosion, slumping and subsidence.

As well, it was not left conducive to re-vegetation, as roads had not been scarified, tailings were not re-contoured, and no organics nor vegetative layers were over where the ground had been disturbed.

Furthermore, the operation’s structures and much of the waste materials had not been removed.

These included abandoned buildings like a trailer, outhouse and two wooden shacks. And the bone yard had strewn and partially buried waste materials including five-gallon buckets that had stored oil, scrap metal and machinery parts, trailer frames, 45-gallon drums, tires, pallets, scrap wood, oily rags, ripped plastic and blue tarps. There was also hydrocarbon staining on the ground.

Finally, Foy had abandoned two unusable vehicles on site, a Toyota pickup truck and an Isuza SUV, by burying them.

Foy, originally from Saskatchewan, is a long-time miner.

His Moose Creek mining exploits were featured on Yukon Gold, a Canadian reality TV series that airs on History Television Canada.

The series, now entering its fifth season, follows a handful of placer mining crews as they search for gold in the territory and northern B.C.