Endeavour Reports Record Q4-2020 Preliminary Results and 2021 Guidance
PRELIMINARY RESULTS AND 2021 GUIDANCE
Achieved top end of production guidance l Net Debt reduction of ∼$600m in 2020 l Net Cash position of ~$70m at year-end
HIGHLIGHTS
Record Q4-2020 production of 344koz, a 41% increase over Q3-2020 while AISC decreased by 15% to ~$770/oz
Record consolidated FY-2020 production of 908koz, a 39% increase over FY-2019, while AISC increased by 5% to ~$860/oz
Eighth consecutive year of achieving annual guidance, reaching the top end of production and low end of AISC guidance, in spite of the global COVID-19 pandemic
Net Cash position of ~$70m achieved at year-end, marking a Net Debt reduction of ~$245m during Q4-2020 and ~$600m during FY-2020
Gold production during the period was 20,622 oz. Overall, a total of 155,859 t of ore grading 4.5 g/t was mined from underground in Q4 compared with 156,391 t of ore grading 4.5 g/t in Q3. A further 44,691 t ore grading 1.4 g/t was mined from open pits in Q4 compared with 38,792 t of ore grading 2.16 g/t in Q3. 181,425 t of ore was milled during the period (Q3: 181,036 t). The ROM stockpile at the end of Q4 was 154,577 t of ore grading 1.31 g/t (up from 120,511 t grading 1.45 g/t at the end of Q3). Average recoveries of 90.4% were achieved in the plant during the period (Q3: 89.4%). Installation and commissioning of a 2 tonne per day Oxygen Plant at NLGM was completed in the Period and is expected to improve future recoveries.
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BRISBANE, Australia, Jan. 25, 2021 /CNW/ - OceanaGold Corporation (TSX: OGC) (ASX: OGC) (the Company ) announces several additional significant intersections of high-grade gold and silver mineralisation at the Company s WKP (Wharekirauponga) prospect in New Zealand. The drill results reported herein are exclusively from the Company s 2020 drill program along the East Graben vein zone.
Significant Intersections (true widths)
Figure 1: Plan View of Geology, Drill Traces and Distribution of 3 Main Veins at WKP (CNW Group/OceanaGold Corporation)
Figure 2: Long Section on the East Graben Vein Showing Geology and Gram x Metre Drill Intercepts (CNW Group/OceanaGold Corporation)
The Board of Xtract Resources Plc ( Xtract or the Company ) is pleased to provide information on the preliminary hand-held XRF geochemical measurements undertaken on the first hole of the Racecourse Copper-Gold Deposit drilling programme at the Bushranger exploration project, located in the Lachlan Fold Belt ( LFB ) of New South Wales, Australia. Drill hole BRDD-20-001 was completed at an amended total depth of 1,145.6m, with the drill hole intersecting 905m of porphyry-associated copper mineralisation based on analysis by hand-held XRF spectrometer. Drilling of the second hole (BRDD-21-002) of the Phase One drilling programme has commenced. Highlights · Hole BRDD-20-001 was drilled to investigate the potential to extend the copper-gold mineralisation at the Racecourse deposit to the northwest beyond the previous boundary of the Inferred Mineral Resource
Endeavour Announces the Sale of its Non-Core Agbaou Mine
January 22, 2021 07:00 ET | Source: Endeavour Mining Corporation Endeavour Mining Corporation
NON-CORE AGBAOU MINE
Abidjan, January 22, 2021 - Endeavour Mining (TSX:EDV) (OTCQX: EDVMF) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement (the “Agreement”) to sell its 85% interest in its non-core Agbaou mine in Côte d’Ivoire to Allied Gold Corp (“Allied Gold”) for a consideration of up to $80 million with further upside through its equity exposure and a Net Smelter Return (“NSR”) royalty.
Sébastien de Montessus, President and CEO of Endeavour, commented: “The sale of our interest in the Agbaou mine to Allied Gold is in line with our strategy of actively managing our portfolio to focus management efforts on high margin, long-life core assets.