Mark Child, Chairman and CEO of Condor Gold PLC presents at this years 2020 Precious Metals Summit Beaver Creek (Virtual)
Condor Gold is listed on the AIM market, ticker CNR and the TSX ticker CNR. Condor has the key Environmental Permit to develop, construct and operate a new mine at Mina La India, Nicaragua. Condor has permitted for extraction, 3 high grade open pits containing 1.12M oz gold Mineral Resource including a Mineral Reserve, which are estimated to produce 120,000 oz gold p.a. for 7 years. The aim is to permit the 1.2M oz gold underground mineral resource once in production.
The Company is de-risking the Project and making it shovel ready with the aim of commencing site preparation by end 2020. The Company has purchased 90% of the land for the main La India open pit mine site infrastructure and has significantly advanced all engineering studies: The Tailings Storage Facility and water retention dams are 40% engineered, the Site Wide Water Balance is underway, power studies, mine site lay out, mine and waste dump schedules are significantly advanced.
Condor Gold currently has a high-grade gold mineral resource of 2.33M oz gold at 4.0g/t gold, which contains an economic probably mineral reserve of 6.9 million tonnes at 3.0 grammes per tonne gold for 675,000 ounces gold. The high grade means the breakeven all in sustaining cash costs are low at US$700 per oz gold. The internal rate of return is approximately 31%. A second part of the strategy is to prove a 5M oz gold district.
About Condor Gold plc:
Condor Gold plc was admitted to AIM in May 2006 and dual listed on the TSX in January 2018. The Company is a gold exploration and development company with a focus on Nicaragua.
In August 2018, the Company announced that the Ministry of the Environment in Nicaragua had granted the Company an Environmental Permit for the development, construction and operation of a processing plant with capacity to process up to 2,800 tonnes per day at its wholly-owned La India gold project (“La India Project”). The Environmental Permit is considered to be the master permit for mining operations in Nicaragua. Condor Gold published a Pre-Feasibility Study (“PFS”) on the La India Project in December 2014, as summarised in the Technical Report as defined below. The PFS details an open pit gold Mineral Reserve in the Probable category of 6.9 Mt at 3.0 g/t gold for 675,000 oz gold, producing 80,000 oz gold per annum for seven years. La India Project contains a Mineral Resource of 9,850Kt at 3.6 g/t gold for 1,140Koz gold in the Indicated category and 8,479Kt at 4.3g/t gold for 1,179Koz gold in the Inferred category. The Indicated Mineral Resource is inclusive of the Mineral Reserve. A gold price of $1,500/oz and a cut-off grade of 0.5g/t and 2.0g/t gold were assumed for open pit and underground resources respectively. A cut-off grade of 1.5g/t gold was furthermore applied within a part of the Inferred Resource. Mineral Resources are not Mineral Reserves and do not have demonstrated economic viability. There is no certainty that any part of the Mineral Resources will be converted to Mineral Reserves.
Environmental Permits have also been granted in April and May 2020 in relation to the Mestiza and America open pits respectively, both located in the vicinity of the La India Project. The Mestiza open pit hosts 92Kt at a grade of 12.1 g/t gold (36,000 oz contained gold) in the Indicated Mineral Resource category and 341Kt at a grade of 7.7 g/t gold (85,000 oz contained gold) in the Inferred Mineral Resource category. The America open pit hosts 114 Kt at a grade of 8.1 g/t gold (30,000 oz contained gold) in the Indicated Mineral Resource category and 677Kt at a grade of 3.1 g/t gold (67,000 oz contained gold) in the Inferred Mineral Resource category. Following the permitting of the Mestiza and America open pits, together with the La India open pit Condor has 1.12M oz gold open pit Mineral Resources permitted for extraction, inclusive of a Mineral Reserve of 6.9Mt at 3.0g/t gold for 675,000 oz gold.
