Canadian-based Borealis Mining has completed its first gold pour of 2024 from its on-site ADR facility in Hawthorne, Nev.
CEO Kelly Malcolm said the milestone was achieved through stripping of 2.5 of the company’s 10 carbon columns, which were loaded from residual leaching with a highly dilute cyanide solution. The first pour resulted in doré bars weighing about 651 troy ounces and containing 21.968 % Au and 20.169 % Ag, for approximately 143 troy ounces of gold and 131 troy ounces of silver.
Borealis now plans to strip the remaining 7.5 carbon columns and then introduce fresh cyanide to a section of the leach pad which has previously not been leached, which should result in a higher gold percentage doré compared to the material generated through residual leaching.
It also recently submitted a number of super sacks of spent carbon fines to Just Refiners (USA) of nearby Reno, which contained 76.504 troy ounces of gold and 305.012 troy ounces of silver.
“We are very pleased to announce our first gold pour of the year, which will now increase in frequency as we strip our remaining carbon columns and start to put fresh cyanide on our leach pad,” Malcolm said.
“We are also in the process of seeking contractors to crush our [approximately] 330,000-ton stockpile of ore, which should also generate meaningful gold production for the company.”
Source: borealismining.com
