One of many regrind mills has now been re-purposed as the first ball mill, permitting ore processing to renew. The re-purposed mill is at present working at a charge of 400 tonnes per day, Endeavour mentioned.
Whereas the grinding circuit is being carefully monitored, there’s potential for the plant to function close to 500 t/d or near half of its deliberate manufacturing capability of 1,200 tpd throughout this short-term part, it added.
The mining operation, in the meantime, will deal with feeding the highest-grade ore to the mill and stockpiling the remaining materials. Contract mining actions and native third-party materials purchases will stop till the method plant operations have returned to full capability.
These short-term options, in response to Endeavour, are supposed to handle money flows till the first mill is totally operational. Utilizing present metallic costs, administration estimates that its money shortfall might be restricted to lower than $5 million over an estimated 15-week interval of decreased processing.
Preliminary quotes for the trunnion fabrication and set up have been obtained with an estimated fabrication value of $500,000 and a interval of 16 weeks to set up, the corporate mentioned, including that it’s assessing a number of options to shorten the estimated downtime of the first ball mill.
Throughout this decreased processing interval, Guanacevi’s manufacturing is estimated to lower by 900,000 to 1.1 million silver ounces and by 2,000 to three,000 gold ounces in comparison with its authentic working plan. Annual consolidated silver manufacturing for 2024 is predicted to vary from 4.4 to 4.6 million ounces, and gold manufacturing is predicted to be between 36,000 and 38,000 ounces.
On a silver-equivalent foundation, Endeavour’s manufacturing for 2024 is now forecast to whole between 7.3 million and seven.6 million ounces. It achieved 4.4 million silver-equivalent ounces within the first half of the yr.