Cerro San Pedro finished active mining and transitioned to residual leaching late in the second quarter of 2016. As a result, and consistent with expectations, the mine’s fourth quarter and full-year 2017 gold and silver production decreased compared to the prior year. 2017 full-year gold production was slightly below the guidance range of 35,000 to 45,000 ounces.
Charles Funk, VP of New Opportunities and Exploration commented, “We are very excited by the development of the Ermitaño West vein. Drilling to date has traced a zone that is 590 metres in strike and up to 210 metres deep with an average thickness of approximately 11 metres. Mineralization remains open at depth and to the west while the main shoot has demonstrated the presence of high gold and silver grades with the potential for significant additional mineralization and tonnage. According to First Majestic their plans for Ermitaño West in 2018 include 20,000 metres of drilling to define a resource, expand the extent of known mineralization and explore for additional veins in the area.”
Keith Neumeyer, President & CEO, stated, Santa Elena and San Martin were the star performers in 2017. In 2018, we expect higher grades, throughputs and recoveries to improve the operations at La Encantada, La Parrilla, La Guitarra and Del Toro due to the concerted investments in exploration and development that commenced in late 2016. In addition, the acquisition of the San Dimas mine comes at a great time with all our other operations benefiting simultaneously from increased investments. As a result, the business will benefit from improved operating margins, increased cash flows and greater economies of scale into the coming quarters.
Pete Dougherty, President & CEO stated: Production of 126,704 GEOs falls within our stated 2017 guidance of between 122,000 and 130,000 GEOs. At La Colorada we exceeded our expectation of between 47,000 and 50,000 GEOs with production of 53,286 GEOs. At San Agustin, we experienced a slower than expected ramp up in the mine and slower than anticipated flow rate to the leach pad. These issues have since been resolved and mining and flow rates are now meeting plan…”
San Marco Resources Inc. announces further assay results from continuing fieldwork at Chunibas. As disclosed in the Companys news release dated January 10th, 2018, newly discovered copper and silver mineralization at the Companys 100% owned Chunibas property has been located over an area of approximately 1.2 kilometres of strike and at least 100 metres of width. That zone has now been extended to 1.7 kilometres of strike and up to 150 metres of width, and open in all directions.
Mark Ashley, Chief Executive Officer of Tonogold Resources, stated “As was in the case of the Lucerne Mine, the identification of this opportunity and the formalization of the present agreement are the result of a number of years of diligent review of numerous opportunities that we had identified in the sector and the subsequent formation of sound commercial strategies aimed at securing control of opportunities that have the potential to become significant and financially robust projects in the near future.”
Akiba Leisman, Executive Chairman and Interim CEO states that internal studies applying current mining costs along with column leach testing results of drill core at Colinas, indicate that mineralized material from Colinas may be suitable for processing at the La Trinidad Mine. Ideally, material from Colinas would supplement current production before we access the southern part of the high-grade HS Zone in March.
Fred Stanford, President and CEO of Torex stated This End-Of-Year (EOY) 2017, update of mineral reserves and resources for the ELG Mine Complex is really all about the underground discoveries at the Sub-Sill. (The mineral reserves and resources for the open pits remain largely unchanged except for depletion.) As anticipated, the Sub-Sill provides excellent near-term cash flow, and is open in at least three directions, which provides for the potential to extend that cash flow into the medium/long term. He added The engineers have done an excellent job in designing a projected low CAPEX operation to manage the complexities of the ore-body geometry. We look forward to continuing the drill program as soon as possible, with the objective of adding and upgrading mineral resources, and ultimately, to profitably extend the mine life.
“Since we restructured our business during the first half of 2016 to drive a culture of accountability and sound operating principles, we have delivered consistent, predictable and low-cost gold production,” said David Garofalo, President and Chief Executive Officer of Goldcorp. “We are well underway to deliver on our 5-year plan of growing gold production and gold reserves by 20% and reducing AISC by 20% by 2021. With the most robust growth pipeline among global senior gold companies, we are making an initial investment of $100 million in our long-term portfolio ‘Beyond 20/20’. Together with an enhanced exploration budget of $125 million, the objective of Beyond 20/20 is to maximize the net asset value of our existingmines and projects by continuing to grow low-cost gold production from our growing gold reserves.”
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