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Brazil
Fazenda Brasileiro Mine

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 Location:
11 km E from Salgadalia, Brazil

  Address:
Zona Rural de Barrocas
Teofilandia
Brazil
48700-000
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Overview

StageProduction
Mine TypeOpen Pit / Underground
Commodities
  • Gold
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
  • Blast Hole Stoping
Processing
  • Gravity separation
  • Concentrate leach
  • Agitated tank (VAT) leaching
  • Inline Leach Reactor (ILR)
  • Carbon in leach (CIL)
  • Carbon in pulp (CIP)
  • Carbon adsorption-desorption-recovery (ADR)
  • Elution
  • Solvent Extraction & Electrowinning
  • Cyanide (reagent)
Mine Life6 years (as of Jan 1, 2018)


Owners

Source:
CompanyInterestOwnership
Equinox Gold  Corp. 100 % Indirect
On May 24, 2018, Leagold Mining completed the acquisition of Brio Gold Inc.

Deposit Type

  • Vein / narrow vein


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.


Mining Methods

  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
  • Blast Hole Stoping


Summary:

Many of the identified mineralized lenses outcrop to surface. Over the course of the operation’s history, several shallow open pits have been excavated to extract these near surface deposits. Currently, several small open pits are in operation, and mining is being completed using contractors. Typically, these small pits are 30 m to 50 m deep and employ air-track drills and backhoe excavators for mining, and highway-type trucks for haulage to the mill.

The main access to the underground operation is through a series of declines. Over the life of the operations, eight main declines - the B, C, D, E, F, G, EW, and EDEEP - have been developed along the strike of the mineralization. A main central shaft (470 m deep) exists, however, it is no longer used for hoisting as the portion of the deposit located within economic distance of the shaft has been mined out. The shaft is now utilized only as a part of the escapeway and ventilation circuit.

Underground mining employs blast hole stoping from sub-levels developed along the trend of the mineralization. The stoping areas are accessed initially from 5 m wide by 5.5 m high main haulage ramps developed at 12% road grade in the footwall, which leads to primary development crosscuts of 4.5 m wide by 5.1 m high, and secondary development drifts and crosscuts of 4.5 m wide by 4.7 m high. Sub levels are spaced at 25 m vertical intervals. Mined out stopes are not backfilled.

Sub-levels are developed into the stoping areas and fan drilling of blast holes into the mineralization is used to further define the boundaries of the mineralization and design the ultimate blast patterns. Remote-controlled 12 t Load-Haul-Dump (LHD) machines are used to load and haul the ore from the stoping areas to 25 t and 35 t articulated haulage trucks at loading points in the sub-levels.

The sub-horizontal plunge and approximate 45° dip of the orebody, combined with a thickness up to 40 m, provides for low development and operating costs. Maximum stope heights are 20 m. Future operations in the deeper areas of E Ramp will have higher haulage costs that will be partially offset by the shorter underground haulage in the F and G Ramps.

All bodies have a planned dilution of 14%, except for the F Body, which has a dilution of 20%. Planned mining recovery was estimated to be 91%, except for F Body, which is 89%. In a small number of areas, where weaker ground is anticipated, planned mining recovery was estimated between 83% and 85%.


Crushing and Grinding


Processing

  • Gravity separation
  • Concentrate leach
  • Agitated tank (VAT) leaching
  • Inline Leach Reactor (ILR)
  • Carbon in leach (CIL)
  • Carbon in pulp (CIP)
  • Carbon adsorption-desorption-recovery (ADR)
  • Elution
  • Solvent Extraction & Electrowinning
  • Cyanide (reagent)

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Summary:

The overall process flow sheet consists of:
• Three stage crushing;
• Ball mill grinding consisting of two mills in parallel closed with cyclones;
• Gravity concentration using centrifugal concentrators; treating the underflow of one cyclone in each of the grinding cyclone clusters;
• Thickening producing a leach feed of 50% solids;
• Cyanide leaching in two parallel circuits, Circuits 1 and 2;
• CIL in two parallel circuits, Circuits 1 and 2;
• Zadra pressure stripping of the carbon;
• Intensive cyanidation of the centrifugal concentrator concentrates;
• Electrowinning of the carbon eluent and gravity concentrate leach solution;
• Casting of gold bars in an induction furnace.

The ore flows from the feed hopper to a twin shaft Blake type 1,200 mm by 900 mm primary jaw crusher with a closed side setting of 89 mm.

The crushed ore is drawn from the stockpile by two vibrating feeders, installed in a tunnel under the st ........

Recoveries & Grades:

CommodityParameter20182017201620152014
Gold Recovery Rate, %  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required
Gold Head Grade, g/t 1.891.6421.872
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Production:

CommodityUnits201920182017201620152014
Gold oz  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required60,97870,88760,91464,188
All production numbers are expressed as metal in doré.
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Operational Metrics:

Metrics201920182017201620152014
Annual processing capacity  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required
Ore tonnes mined  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required1,215,826 t1,172,911 t1,150,773 t
Tonnes processed  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required1,258,599 t1,171,786 t1,113,922 t
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Reserves at December 31, 2019:

CategoryOreTypeTonnage CommodityGradeContained Metal
Proven Total 2,632 kt Gold 1.77 g/t 150 koz
Probable Total 2,756 kt Gold 1.91 g/t 169 koz
Proven & Probable Total 5,387 kt Gold 1.84 g/t 319 koz
Measured Total 4,870 kt Gold 2.17 g/t 339 koz
Indicated Total 2,670 kt Gold 2.55 g/t 219 koz
Measured & Indicated Total 7,540 kt Gold 2.3 g/t 558 koz
Inferred Total 6,040 kt Gold 2.45 g/t 476 koz

Commodity Production Costs:

CommodityUnits2018201720162015
Cash costs (sold) Gold USD  ......  Subscription required
Cash costs Gold USD 862 / oz 689 / oz 719 / oz
All-in sustaining costs (AISC) Gold USD  ......  Subscription required 1,033 / oz 918 / oz 905 / oz
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Operating Costs:

Units20182015
OP mining costs ($/t mined) USD 2.281.94
UG mining costs ($/t milled) USD  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required
Processing costs ($/t milled) USD  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required
Total operating costs ($/t milled) USD  ......  Subscription required
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Financials:

Units201620152014
Capital expenditures M USD  ......  Subscription required 14.7   15.2  
Revenue M USD  ......  Subscription required 69.2  
Operating Income M USD  ......  Subscription required -19.84  


Heavy Mobile Equipment as of May 31, 2018:
HME TypeModelSizeQuantity
Drill ....................... Subscription required 1
Drill ....................... Subscription required 3
Drill jumbo (two boom) ....................... Subscription required 5
Loader ....................... Subscription required 2
Load-Haul-Dump (LHD) ....................... Subscription required 12 5
Load-Haul-Dump (LHD) ....................... Subscription required 12 t 1
Rock bolter ....................... Subscription required 1
Truck (haul) ....................... Subscription required 25 t 16
Truck (haul) ....................... Subscription required 35 t 1
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Mine Management:

Job TitleNameProfileRef. Date
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Subscription required Mar 26, 2020
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Staff:

EmployeesContractorsTotal WorkforceYear
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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

DocumentYear
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Financial Review 2016
Management Discussion & Analysis 2016
Press Release 2016
Technical Report 2016
Year-end Mineral Reserves 2016
Annual Report 2015
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