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Minera Alamos starts producing gold at Santana

5th November 2021

By: Creamer Media Reporter

     

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TSX-V-listed Minera Alamos has made an initial delivery of gold dore from its Santana gold project, in Sonora, Mexico.

The gold was recovered from early material stacked on the Santana heap leach pad during July and August and intended primarily to commission the carbon recovery plant and associated solution pumping systems in advance of ramping up daily mining operations. 

Leaching activities started at the end of August as the rainy season subsided and the results to date have confirmed the rapid gold extraction kinetics experienced during the heap leach test pad operations concluded in 2019. 

“We are thrilled to have turned the corner to become a gold producer at our first mine in Mexico. It is truly a credit to the abilities of our technical group that we have managed to successfully complete this transition while dealing with all the challenges of the last 18 months as a result of the pandemic,” stated CEO Darren Koningen.

“The results from early operations have confirmed those from previous test mining activities at Santana with rapid gold extractions and low reagent consumptions. If the current ramp-up trends continue we appear to be well on track to exceed our initial timing for achieving consistent net cash generation at the operation level.”

About 400 oz of gold was contained in the doré poured from the first shipment of carbon sent off site to validate the operational and QA/QC procedures from the treatment facility being considered for future gold concentrate (carbon) processing.  This material has been sent for final refining and sale.  

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