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Cerro De Maimon Mine

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Mine TypeUnderground
StatusActive
Commodities
  • Copper
  • Zinc
  • Silver
  • Gold
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SnapshotThe Cerro de Maimón North (CDMN) deposit was mined as an open pit from 2008 until 2020, after which the pit was repurposed as a tailings facility. Underground mining at CDMN began in 2020, and production at the Cerro de Maimón South (CDMS) deposit is underway.

The plant processes sulphide ore for copper with gold-silver by-products; oxide ore was mined out by 2015.

Nearby prospects—Loma Pesada, Loma Barbuito, Cerro Kiosko, and Doña Amanda—highlight the area’s broader potential. Doña Amanda is notable for its size, though lower in grade. The company is pursuing near-mine reserve expansion and acquiring new exploration targets across the Dominican Republic, aiming to make Cerro de Maimón a regional mining hub.

Perilya Ltd. has not regularly reported production data since its 2013 delisting from the ASX. As a privately held company (owned by China’s Zhongjin Lingnan Nonfemet), Perilya’s detailed financial results are not disclosed in the same way as a public company.

Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Corporacion Minera Dominicana S.A. (operator) 100 % Direct
Shenzhen Zhongjin Lingnan Nonfemet Co.,Ltd. 100 % Indirect
Perilya Ltd. of Australia, through its subsidiary Corporación Minera Dominicana (CMD), owned Cerro de Maimón.

Perilya is owned by Zhongjin Lingnan Mining (HK) Company Limited of Hong Kong. It bought the remaining 48% of the shares that it did not already own in December 2013, and de-listed Perilya from the Australian Stock Exchange. Zhongjin Lingnan is a wholly owned subsidiary of Shenzhen Zhongjin Lingnan Nonfemet Co., Limited, China, which is 39.23% owned by the Government of the People’s Republic of China, and is listed on the Shenzhen stock exchange.

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Deposit type

  • VMS

Summary:

The Cerro de Maimón deposit is a typical volcanic-hosted exhalative massive sulphide body (VMS type). It contains sulphide ores with recoverable copper, gold and silver, overlain by a gold and silver rich oxide cap.

The deposit is hosted by the Maimón Formation, part of the Early Cretaceous Caribbean volcanic island arc, that trends northwest-southeast across the central part of Hispaniola. The Cerro de Maimón deposit is found within inter-bedded chlorite and sericite schists with thin beds of graphitic and siliceous exhalite. The Cerro de Maimón orebody is the largest known volcanic massive sulphide occurrence in the Maimón Formation. The original felsic volcanoclastic rocks (lapilli rhyolites and lapilli tuffs) have been metamorphosed to greenschist facies through seawater hydrothermal alteration and occur in both the hanging and the footwall to the orebody. In the hanging wall, felsic rocks are intercalated with mafic chlorite schists. Weathering of the massive sulphide has resulted in the oxide cap enriched in gold and silver.

The deposit outcrops at surface, plunges southeast at 25° and dips 30° southwest. The dip flattens to 20° down plunge. It is 200 meters wide, 1,000 meters long, up to 40 meters thick near surface and narrows to 5 meters down plunge. The average thickness is approximately 12 meters.

Mineralization occurs in three types: a near-surface gold/silver rich oxide cap, a supergene enriched sulphide zone, where the unaltered massive sulphide has been preferentially enriched in copper, and the unaltered massive sulphide mineralisation deeper in the deposit, below the effect of weathering and where the copper to zinc ratio approaches 1:1. The oxide cap comprises goethite enriched in gold and silver and averages 30 meters in thickness. Mineralisation in the sulphide material consists of massive to semi-massive, rounded to angular pyrite with interstitial chalcopyrite and sphalerite. Bornite, tennantite, tetrahedrite and galena occur as trace minerals. Gangue minerals include quartz, sericite, chlorite, minor calcite and barite. Secondary copper minerals, including chalcocite and covellite, partially replace the primary sulphide minerals. Supergene enrichment has locally raised the copper content to as much as 10%. Copper grades in the un-weathered sulphide mineralisation are generally between 2% and 3%.

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Commodity Production

2018 production data is represented for the period from January to October.
CommodityProductUnits2022202120202018201720162015
Copper Metal in concentrate t  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe6,5308,5498,3146,884
Zinc Metal in concentrate t  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe3,0863,9203,6364,655
Silver Metal in conc./ doré oz  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe178,877270,852298,697336,971
Gold Metal in conc./ doré oz  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe4,7166,8687,3978,757

Operational metrics

Metrics2018
Ore tonnes mined
Tonnes processed
Daily processing capacity 1,300 t

Production Costs

Commodity production costs have not been reported.

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