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Peru
San Luis Project

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 Location:
58 km E from Casma, Peru

  Project Contacts:
Calle Monte Rosa 280, Oficina 402
Chacarilla del Estanque, Surco
Lima
Peru
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Fax51-1-700-9020
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Overview

StagePermitting
Mine TypeUnderground
Commodities
  • Gold
  • Silver
Mining Method
  • Overhand Cut & Fill
Processing
  • Gravity separation
  • Counter current decantation (CCD)
  • Leaching plant / circuit
  • Agitated tank (VAT) leaching
  • Merrill–Crowe
  • Cyanide (reagent)
Mine Life4 years (as of Jan 1, 2010)


Owners

Source: p. 51
CompanyInterestOwnership
SSR Mining Inc. 100 % Indirect
Reliant Ventures S.A.C. 100 % Direct
The San Luis project is held by Reliant Ventures S.A.C., a wholly-owned subsidiary of SSR Mining Inc.

Deposit Type

  • Epithermal
  • Vein / narrow vein
  • Volcanic hosted


Summary:

The San Luis vein system is a typical volcanic hosted low sulphidation epithermal quartz/precious metal deposit. The deposit is very similar to numerous other volcanic-hosted epithermal vein deposits that occur in the Rocky Mountain, Sierra Nevada, Sierra Madre, and Andean cordilleras, including those in districts in Ouray/Telluride and Creede, Colorado, Silver Peak, Nevada, Guanajuato, Fresnillo, and Pachuca, Mexico, and Morococha, Quirivilca, and Casapalca, Peru.

Vein gangue mineralization in the San Luis deposit consists of quartz, chalcedony, calcite and minor adularia. Gold occurs as electrum and silver is present as acanthite, other silver sulphosalts, and electrum. Other sulphides include trace amounts of pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena and sphalerite The veins display common epithermal textures including crustiform banding that often display the interlayers of quartz and sulfide minerals described in Item 10. Bands are frequently disrupted, indicating repeated pulses of mineralization. Lattice textures in which calcite crystals have been replaced by quartz and brecciation are also common characteristics. Faulting and fracturing are key elements in the localization of mineralization in the vein system. Mineralized “shoots” typically occur in dilational zones that are the result of a variety of local stresses, and often these stresses are repeated along the length of a vein structure, resulting in multiple mineralized-shoots.

The Ayelén vein is the better mineralized of the known vein structures. Trenching and diamond drilling have traced this structure along a strike of 340° to 345° for a length of over 720m, with down-dip extensions of more than 325m. Surface mapping shows that the vein structure dips -75° to -85° west-southwesterly, but drilling results show that the controlling fault structure(s), subsurface individual vein segments and post-mineral dikes dip vertically to -80° west-southwesterly. True thicknesses of individual vein segments vary from ten’s of centimeters to more than 10m, with an average of 1.5m to 3.0m wide.

The Inéz vein, which is situated approximately 110m east of the Ayelén vein, strikes northwesterly at 320° to 340° and dips -50° to -75° to the northeast. The vein outcrops as a series of discontinuous resistant ridges for more than 2,200m along strike, with apparent widths of 2.0m to 7.5m. However, only a relatively short section of the Inéz vein contains significant amounts of gold and silver, and this section occurs where the Inéz vein is closest to the Ayelén vein.


Mining Methods

  • Overhand Cut & Fill


Summary:

The selected mining method is “mechanized overhand cut and fill”. This method is very selective, both in the horizontal and vertical directions, handles weak ground well, and allows a reasonable productivity (generally about 3 to 5 tonnes per manshift in the mine) in the mining process. Mining will be performed conventionally with stoper drills and small, captive, electric scoops.

There is the potential to use mill tailings for hydraulic backfill but this requires further evaluation. Waste rock can be economically hauled to the stopes from mine development (when available), or from the broad colluvium deposits located near each mine entrance.

The stope is prepared with a backfill/ventilation raise in the center of the stope, and two, vertical access raises (1.5m x 3.0m) on the strike of the vein, located at the stope extremities. These access raises are as wide as the mineralization, or the minimum mining equipment width requirement, and about two meters in depth. At the San Luis Project, the second cut will be accessed by ramping from the first cut inside the stope. This succession is planned for each new cut, leaving the equipment used for drilling and mucking captive in the stope until the level above is reached. This can lower productivity in the stope considerably, since all equipment repairs and maintenance must be performed in the stope. It also requires that extra stopes be prepared at all times to provide the programmed plant feed when scheduled stopes are down for equipment repairs. The advantage of this method is quick access to ore and substantially less capital development in waste rock. Due to the relatively short mine life and ease of access to additional stopes, the captive equipment approach is appropriate for this deposit.

All stope blasthole drilling is to be performed with stopers, drilling 85º inclined up-holes in the back. The blasted ore will be removed by electric 0.7yd3 micro-scoops when the vein is less than two meters in width, and electric 2.5yd3 scoops, when the vein is over two meters width. The blasted ore will be deposited in a raise driven along the vein from the lower haulage to the upper haulage. From there, it will be loaded into low profile 20 tonne trucks, which will haul the ore to the ROM stockpile. A second raise, located at the stope extremities, will provide access for personnel, materials, and ventilation.

Once the ore pass is completed from Level 4,400 and 4,550, ore from the upper levels will be passed through it to Level 4,400, where it will be hauled by a 20-tonne low-profile truck to the ROM stockpile.

Once a stope cut has been emptied, it will be backfilled with waste rock to about two meters from the cut back. This backfill will be passed down the backfill raise from the level above into the cut, and distributed within the cut with the corresponding electric scooptram.

The expected production from cuts (stopes) having a width of less than two meters is 1,700 tonnes per month, and 4,200 tonnes per month from cuts (stopes) having a width of two meters, or more.


Crushing and Grinding


Processing

  • Gravity separation
  • Counter current decantation (CCD)
  • Leaching plant / circuit
  • Agitated tank (VAT) leaching
  • Merrill–Crowe
  • Cyanide (reagent)

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Summary:

Gold and silver will be extracted from San Luis ore by a combination of gravity and cyanide leach processes. The plant will operate at a nominal capacity of 400 tonnes per day.

The process flow sheet includes two-stage crushing and screening, fine ore storage, grinding and classification, gravity concentration, cyanide leaching, thickening and CCD washing of leach discharge slurry. Leached tailings will be discharged to a tailings storage facility near the process plant with cyanide solution being recycled to the process circuit. Pregnant leach solution will be clarified and deaerated prior to the injection of zinc dust to precipitate gold and silver. Precipitates will be collected in a filter press, then dried and smelted to produce doré bars for final refining offsite. The crushing and screening circuits as well as smelting section will operate on day shift only. All other process facilities will operate 24 hours a day.

The processing criteria consider:
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Recoveries & Grades:

CommodityParameterAvg. LOM
Gold Recovery Rate, %  ......  Subscription required
Gold Head Grade, g/t 18
Silver Recovery Rate, %  ......  Subscription required
Silver Head Grade, g/t 446.14
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Projected Production:

CommodityUnitsAvg. AnnualLOM
Gold oz 78,000270,031
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All production numbers are expressed as metal in doré.

Operational Metrics:

Metrics
Daily mining rate 417 t *
Daily milling capacity 400 t *
Waste tonnes, LOM 152,474 kt *
Ore tonnes mined, LOM 503,313 kt *
Total tonnes mined, LOM 655,787 kt *
* According to 2010 study.

Reserves at December 31, 2018:

CategoryTonnage CommodityGradeContained Metal
Indicated 0.48 Mt Gold 22.4 g/t 0.35 M oz
Indicated 0.48 Mt Silver 578 g/t 9 M oz
Inferred 0.02 Mt Gold 5.6 g/t
Inferred 0.02 Mt Silver 270 g/t 0.2 M oz

Commodity Production Costs:

CommodityUnits2020
Cash costs Gold USD 313.16 / oz *
Assumed price Silver USD 12.5 / oz *
Assumed price Gold USD 800 / oz *
* According to 2010 study / presentation.
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Operating Costs:

Units2020
UG mining costs ($/t milled) USD 59 *
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* According to 2010 study.
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2010 Study Costs and Valuation Metrics :

MetricsUnitsLOM Total
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UG OpEx $M USD  ......  Subscription required
Processing OpEx $M USD 28.3
Freight costs $M USD 0.3
G&A costs $M USD 22.9
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Proposed Heavy Mobile Equipment as of June 4, 2010:
HME TypeModelQuantity
ANFO Loader 3
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Mine Management:

Job TitleNameProfileRef. Date
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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

DocumentYear
................................... Subscription required 2019
................................... Subscription required 2018
Annual Information Form 2017
Corporate Presentation 2017
Annual Information Form 2016
Annual Information Form 2015
Feasibility Study Report 2010
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