Going big, real soon!!!!
"Depending how you look at it, it's either a gold-silver project or a silver-gold project," she says. "The 43-101 was based on $1,149 an ounce for gold and $20.92 for silver. We have run our own in-house analysis and estimate a 1.5:1 strip ratio, 80% recovery for gold and 50% recovery for silver. The mining cost for this project is roughly $11.43 per ton. With an estimated CAPEX of less than $10 million, that all adds up to an extremely robust project."
plans a PEA, possibly by 4Q 2011, an economic assessment by 2012 and production by mid-2013. Bell Mountain will be an open-pit mine with heap-leach processing.
from:
https://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page674?oid=132164&sn=Detail&pid=102055