RE: Dupax10 Jan 2026 09:31
Antroot,
I'm not sure I've seen it or heard it. This was a comment from Mark Child on his linkedin from around a month ago. He knows the project very well.
Gold production less than 12 months, Q4 2026...how exciting. Producing an average of 145,000 oz gold for 12 years. MTL processing plant is 1.4Mtpa, that's the capacity we had in Condor Gold's PEA, but the plant has built in capacity for 1.8Mtpa, a 29% increase.
MTL has announced a possible pit extension of 100m to 300m to the north, and say the vein width is 7m at 3g/t gold at surface. What does this mean? 300m length x 7m width x 300m depth x specific gravity 2.6 = circa up to 150k oz gold in the pit, grades doubled at depth.
Can MTL "fill the mill" of 1.8Mtpa with a combination of high grade underground and 3g/t gold from the 3 permitted open pits? That would take production to over 175,000 oz gold p.a. on a AISC of circa US$1,200 oz gold an EBITDA margin of circa US$500M at today's gold price or equivalent to today's market cap.
Oh and MTL is debt free and say construction of La India is fully funded by production from their Philippine gold mine