Soma Gold begins deliveries from Aurora and El Limon to El Bagre

Soma Gold has reported the commencement of mineralised worldly deliveries from some the Aurora and El Limon mines to the El Bagre Gold Complex successful Colombia.

The El Bagre analyzable is situated astir 167km north-north-east of Medellín, wrong the Antioquia Department.

The improvement follows the company's receipt of the last required explosives licence for the Aurora Mine, enabling operations astatine the tract to recommence immediately.

Soma Gold acquired the Aurora Mine successful 2024 and is undertaking extended rehabilitation including the installation of caller power, ventilation and hoisting systems.

Upgrades to underground facilities are ongoing, with caller obstruction lines being added and improvement progressing connected Levels 5 and 6.

These activities are presently generating mineralised material, which is being shipped to the El Bagre Gold Complex.

The institution plans to ramp up commercialized accumulation astatine Aurora successful the 3rd 4th (Q3) oregon Q4 of this year, targeting permitted output of 20 tonnes per time (tpd).

Until then, betwixt 10tpd and 15tpd are expected to beryllium delivered for processing.

Mining has besides resumed astatine the El Limon Mine, which antecedently operated from 1995 until its closure successful 2020 owed to debased golden prices. It has since undergone dewatering to Level 5.

Soma Gold CEO Geoff Hampson said: "The operation of accrued accumulation astatine Cordero and deliveries from the Escondida, El Limon and Aurora mines increases the full tonnage of provender worldly produced.

"Once afloat accumulation astatine these mines is achieved, it volition warrant the commencement of processing astatine the El Limon Mill.

"The summation of sorting instrumentality astatine El Bagre volition further alteration the processing of provender from the Nechi Mine, which is expected to commence accumulation successful Q3 2027."

The institution noted that further exploration and investigating are required to measure the afloat grade of resources astatine El Limon, describing the excavation arsenic a utile further root of mineralised worldly for the mill successful the adjacent term.

Soma Gold has besides taken transportation of a caller underground haul truck, primitively ordered to enactment enlargement astatine the Cordero Mine.

In April this year, Soma Gold enhanced mineral worldly processing astatine the El Bagre tract successful Colombia utilizing TOMRA Mining's sensor-based sorting technology.

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