“This achievement is the fruits of 5.8 million person-hours centered on constructing, testing and ramping up manufacturing at Brazil’s latest main gold mine,” G Mining CEO Louis-Pierre Gignac mentioned in a press launch on Tuesday.
Final month, the Canadian miner obtained Tocantinzinho’s working licence and bought its first gold produced to a refinery in Switzerland. First pour and scorching commissioning have been achieved earlier in the summertime.
G Mining will now concentrate on ramping up mine operations by 2024, testing the processing circuits’ capacity to deal with nameplate masses whereas enhancing restoration to 90%. The corporate is focusing on its nameplate throughput of 4.7 million tonnes every year by early 2025.
Tocantinzinho is engineered to have a ten.5-year mine life with a mean annual gold manufacturing of 174,700 oz., together with 196,200 oz. for the primary 5 full years.