Atalaya Mining plc - AGM Statement
Nicosia - At Atalaya Mining's AGM, to be held at 11.00 a.m. (UK) today at Canaccord Genuity, 88 Wood Street, London EC2V 7QR, United Kingdom, Roger Davey, non-executive Chairman, will make the following statement: "2017 has been a year of stabilisation and process improvements at the RioTinto Project and was the first full year of commercial production for your company. The ore processing throughput rate was steadily increased to achieve a cumulative plant throughput of 8.8 Mtpa (against a nameplate capacity 9.5 Mtpa). Copper grade was consistent with reserve estimates and the process recovery rate improved over the year to 85.45%, producing a total of 37,164 tonnes of copper, an increase of 40% over the 2016 production, from an average copper head grade of 0.49%.
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