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Q4 2015 Inata Production Update

27 Jan 2016 07:00

RNS Number : 0753N
Avocet Mining PLC
27 January 2016
 

 

27 January 2016

 

 

 Q4 2015 Inata production update

 

 

Q4 2015 Inata Production

 

Avocet Mining PLC ("Avocet" or "the Company") today announces production and cash costs for the fourth quarter of 2015 at the Inata Gold Mine.

· Gold production for Q4 was 17,380 ounces at a cash cost of US$1,094 per ounce, compared with 17,517 ounces produced in Q3 at a cash cost of US$1,107 per ounce

· Full year gold production for 2015 was 74,755 ounces at a cash cost of US$1,058 per ounce, compared with 86,037 ounces in 2014 at a cash cost of US$1,186 per ounce

 

In spite of production challenges and cash constraints, safety continues to be a key result area for management. At year end, the mine had achieved 823 days (approximately 6.8 million man hours) since the last Lost Time Injury (LTI).

 

Mining and processing in the quarter focussed on lower grade, softer oxide ores, with head grades of 1.22 g/t and average recovery levels of 89%, compared with 1.50 g/t at 72% in Q3. Throughput increased to 508k tonnes from 448k tonnes in Q3, in spite of disruption caused by supply issues in the wake of the September attempted military coup.

 

Average mining costs of US$318 per ounce in 2015 were lower than the 2014 level of US$422 per ounce, despite the stripping ratio more than doubling from 4.5 to 9.8. This has been achieved principally as a result of the waste from the final North Pit pushback being dumped within worked out adjacent pits. The high grade carbonaceous ore from North pit is planned to be mined later in 2016.

 

The mine continues to seek further areas for cost reductions, and during the quarter all management salaries were reduced by 10%. In spite of a decrease in cash costs in the quarter, margins remain tight in the context of gold spot rates and particularly diesel prices, which have been held at March 2015 levels. The Company continues to work with the Chamber of Mines to lobby the Burkina Faso government to reduce the price of fuel to reflect the fall in global oil prices.

 

Further details of Q4 2015 production are set out at Appendix I.

 

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT

Avocet Mining PLC

Bell PottingerFinancial PR Consultants

J.P. Morgan CazenoveCorporate Broker

David Cather, CEOJim Wynn, FD

Daniel Thöle 

Michael Wentworth-Stanley 

+44 20 3709 2570

+44 20 2772 2500

+44 20 7742 4000

 

 

NOTES TO EDITORS

Avocet Mining PLC ("Avocet" or the "Company") is an unhedged gold mining and exploration company listed on the London Stock Exchange (ticker: AVM.L) and the Oslo Børs (ticker: AVM.OL). The Company's principal activities are gold mining and exploration in West Africa.

 

In Burkina Faso the Company owns 90% of the Inata Gold Mine. The Inata Gold Mine poured its first gold in December 2009 and produced 74,755 ounces of gold in 2015. Other assets in Burkina Faso include five exploration permits surrounding the Inata Gold Mine in the broader Bélahouro region. The most advanced of these projects is Souma, some 20 kilometres from the Inata Gold Mine.

 

In Guinea, Avocet owns 100% of the Tri-K Project in the north east of the country. Drilling to date has outlined a Mineral Resource of 3.0 million ounces, and in October 2013 the Company announced a maiden Ore Reserve on the oxide portion of the orebody, which is suitable for heap leaching, of 0.5 million ounces. As an alternative, the potential exists to exploit the entire 3.0 million ounce Tri-K orebody via the CIL processing method. The Company announced on 2 April 2015 that an exploitation permit had been awarded for Tri-K.

 

 

 

Appendix 1

 

 

Inata Gold Mine quarterly production information 2014-15

 

 

2014

 

2015

 

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

2014

 

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

2015

Ore mined (k tonnes)

621

818

591

499

2,529

 

393

397

232

290

1,313

Waste mined (k tonnes)

4,351

3,583

2,116

1,445

11,495

 

1,420

3,563

4,349

3,494

12,826

Total mined (k tonnes)

4,972

4,401

2,707

1,944

14,024

 

1,813

3,960

4,581

3,784

14,139

Ore processed (k tonnes)

483

537

554

329

1,903

 

437

471

448

509

1,865

Average head grade (g/t)

1.61

1.44

1.53

2.92

1.77

 

2.50

2.27

1.50

1.22

1.85

Process recovery rate

86%

88%

85%

61%

79%

 

52%

67%

72%

89%

67%

Gold Produced (oz)

23,148

21,650

21,736

19,503

86,037

 

17,011

22,848

17,517

17,782

74,755

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash costs (US$/oz)

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

2014

 

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

2015

Mining

464

508

395

306

422

 

262

313

362

335

318

Processing

402

478

461

431

442

 

540

408

486

430

462

Administration

223

242

239

232

234

 

236

155

188

251

203

Royalties

90

89

88

83

88

 

75

76

71

78

75

 

1,179

1,317

1,183

1,052

1,186

 

1,113

952

1,107

1,094

1,058

 

 

 

This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
 
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