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Fazenda Brasileiro Mine

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Overview

Mine TypeOpen Pit & Underground
StatusActive
Commodities
  • Gold
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
  • Blast Hole Stoping
  • Sub-level stoping
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SnapshotFazenda is primarily an underground operation complemented with production from several small open pits.

2024 plan: Plant feed is 35% open pit, 65% underground. Evaluate larger open pit over centre of main trend.

Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Equinox Gold  Corp. 100 % Indirect
Fazenda Brasileiro Desenvolvimento Mineral Ltda. (operator) 100 % Direct
Equinox Gold owns 100% of the mineral licenses (Fazenda Brasileiro) through its indirect wholly owned subsidiary Fazenda Brasileiro Desenvolvimento Mineral Ltda.

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Deposit type

  • Vein / narrow vein
  • Hydrothermal

Summary:

The Fazenda Brasileiro gold deposit is an epigenetic, structurally controlled and hydrothermally altered Precambrian quartz vein hosted lode gold deposit that has been subjected to greenschist facies metamorphism. There is some suggestion of a partial syngenetic origin for the gold because of the anomalous gold content (0.05 g/t Au to 0.10 g/t Au) throughout visibly unmineralized CLX.

Gold mineralization is related to multi-phase quartz veining events. The gold occurs in at least three textural settings at MFB: as particles attached to sulphide grains, as particles within fractures in sulphide grains, and as particles within fractures in quartz/albite gangue. Gold grains typically contain less than 5% silver.

The bulk of the mineralization is hosted by quartz-albite-sulphide veins within the chlorite schist (CLX) unit. Individual veins vary from one to four centimetres thick, have irregular margins, and are typically oriented sub-parallel to the predominant east-west trend of the felsic and mafic schists. The veins occur in multiple vein sets which vary in true width from 1.5 m to 40 m and in horizontal mining width from a minimum 3 m to 40 m. The veins are generally arcuate in an east-west trend and south dipping at 40° to 70°, with a shallow to moderate east plunge. The plunge, however, is quite variable, with some zones plunging westerly.

Mineralization is also found stratigraphically below the CLX unit in the CLX2 and Canto horizons. Economic mineralization occurs in horizontal to sub-horizontal shoots, the locations of which are influenced by a combination of folding and shearing. Shoots range from tens of metres to hundreds of metres in length and tens of metres in height.

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Comminution

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Production

CommodityUnits2024202320222021202020192018201720162015
Gold koz  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe7373617161
All production numbers are expressed as metal in doré. ^ Guidance / Forecast.

Operational metrics

Metrics202320222021202020192018201720162015
Ore tonnes mined  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe1,357 kt1,368 kt1,241,791 t1,215,826 t1,172,911 t
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Tonnes processed  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe1,335 kt1,331 kt1,283,562 t1,258,599 t1,171,786 t
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Annual processing capacity  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe1.3 Mt1.3 Mt1.3 Mt

Production Costs

CommodityUnits2024202320222021202020182017
Cash costs (sold) Gold USD  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe 726 / oz  
Cash costs Gold USD 862 / oz  
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All-in sustaining costs (sold) Gold USD  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe 838 / oz  
All-in sustaining costs (AISC) Gold USD 1,033 / oz  
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** Net of By-Product.

Operating Costs

Currency202320222021202020192018
OP mining costs ($/t mined) USD 2.45  2.09  1.5  2.28  
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Financials

Units2024202320222021202020192018
Capital expenditures (planned) M USD  ....  Subscribe
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Mine Management

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