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Semafo hits 97% completion at Boungou, expects first gold by June

17th May 2018

By: Henry Lazenby

Creamer Media Deputy Editor: North America

     

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VANCOUVER (miningweekly.com) – Montreal-based miner Semafo reports that construction of its $231-million Boungou mine, in Burkina Faso, is 97% complete.

Commissioning of the process plant is under way, with the first ore scheduled to be introduced to the mill circuit by month-end, the West Africa-focused miner said on Thursday.

The first gold pour is now pencilled in for June, slightly ahead of schedule.

Semafo said construction of the processing plant is now 100% complete, with commissioning nearing the 60% level.

The crushing circuit, vertimill, pre-leach and tailings thickeners, leaching/carbon-in-pulp circuit and water services are already commissioned and commissioning of the semi-autogenous grinding mill, gravity, elution circuit, gold room, compressors and oxygen plant started earlier this month.

About $202-million of the construction budget has been spent to date.

Further, Semafo said pre-stripping is 87% complete, with 15.6-million of the projected 18-million tonnes extracted. The company has already amassed a stockpile of 70 000 t of low-grade ore on the run-of-mine pad.

Meanwhile, mine operator recruitment and training is nearing the end this month. Eighty-six per cent of the 1 480 personnel, including contractors, have been employed.

The company has now initiated the demobilisation of construction and contract personnel, having worked 515 days without a single lost-time injury.

Edited by Creamer Media Reporter

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