RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:2fast known your routine for yearsmaurizion,
Not so fast to jump to the wrong conclusion! What impressed me about this quarter's results is that gold recovery is up to 95 percent, which is an improvement over the 93.8 percent from last quarter. How many 3 metal process plants with gravity circuits, flotation circuits, and CIL get a recovery that is as good as 95 percent for gold, and 81 percent for copper running 37 percent oxide ore?
So the increase in the oxide ore might be causing a process upset and a build up in process gold in the mill. if that is the case, then we should see a jump in gold production next quarter after the plant operators resolve this problem.
Costs should be way down because Carles was not mined this quarter, and the throughput was down by 60,000 metric tons from the previous quarter.
Meanwhile, in Bolvia, Don Mario had another profitable quarter. Don Mario continues to surprise with positive results. Maybe it is time to open up a second low cost mine in Bolivia?