Centamin PLC Announces Q2 2018 Preliminary Production Results
Perth, Australia (FSCwire) - Centamin announces preliminary production results for the second quarter and six months ended 30 June 2018 from its Sukari Gold Mine ("Sukari") in Egypt.
| 3 months ended 30 June | 6 months ended 30 June | ||||||
| units | Q2 2018 | Q2 2017 | H1 2018 | H1 2017 | |||
| Safety | |||||||
| Group LTIFR | 200,000 hours | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.06 | 0.26 | ||
| Open pit mining | |||||||
| Total material mined | kt | 18,415 | 17,493 | 36,911 | 34,622 | ||
| Ore mined(1) | kt | 5,532 | 3,060 | 11,578 | 5,538 | ||
| Ore grade mined | g/t Au | 0.51 | 0.76 | 0.50 | 0.63 | ||
| Ore grade milled | g/t Au | 0.59 | 0.81 | 0.64 | 0.77 | ||
| Strip ratio | waste/ore | 2.33 | 4.72 | 2.19 | 5.25 | ||
| Underground mining | |||||||
| Ore mined from stoping | kt | 180 | 174 | 340 | 327 | ||
| Ore mined from development | kt | 109 | 119 | 261 | 218 | ||
| Ore grade mined | g/t Au | 4.62 | 8.79 | 5.48 | 8.16 | ||
| Processing | |||||||
| Ore processed | kt | 3,172 | 3,056 | 6,240 | 5,964 | ||
| Head grade | g/t Au | 0.99 | 1.44 | 1.15 | 1.37 | ||
| Gold recovery | % | 87.3 | 86.7 | 88.6 | 87.7 | ||
| Gold produced - dump leach | oz | 3,028 | 1,738 | 5,183 | 3,786 | ||
| Total gold production(2) | oz | 92,803 | 124,641 | 217,099 | 233,828 | ||
(1) Ore mined includes 3.6Mt at 0.42g/t delivered to the dump leach in Q2 2018;
(2) Gold produced is gold poured and does not include gold-in-circuit at period end.
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| Andrew Pardey, Chief Executive Officer Alexandra Carse, Investor Relations +44 (0) 7700 713 738 alexandra.carse@centamin.je | Buchanan Communications Bobby Morse Chris Judd + 44 (0) 20 7466 5000 centamin@buchanan.uk.com |
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