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Haile UG - Horseshoe Project (Haile Operation)

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 Location:
5,5 km NE from Kershaw, South Carolina, United States

  Project Contacts:
6911 Snowy Owl Road
P.O. Box 128
Kershaw
South Carolina, United States
29067
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Overview

StageConstruction
Mine TypeUnderground
Commodities
  • Gold
Mining Method
  • Transverse open stoping
  • Cemented backfill
Production Start...
Mine Life6 years (as of Jan 1, 2021)


Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
OceanaGold Corp. 100 % Indirect
OceanaGold Corp. indirectly owns 100% interest in the Haile UG project through it's wholly owned subsidiary Haile Gold Mine Inc.

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Deposit Type

  • Sediment-hosted


Summary:

Hundreds of gold deposits in the southeast USA are located along a 700 km long SW-NE trend that extends from Alabama to Virginia (McCauley and Butler, 1966, Butler and Secor, 1991). Most of these deposits are small prospects worked and explored along narrow quartz veins. The larger gold deposits are located at or near the contact between volcanic and sedimentary rocks, including the Haile, Brewer, Barite Hill and Ridgeway mines. Brewer is unique in the region and is classified as a highsulfidation epithermal gold system with volcanic and breccia-hosted gold accompanied by quartz, pyrite, topaz, enargite and chalcopyrite. Gold mineralization at Barite Hill contains the assemblage of pyrite-chalcopyrite-galena-sphalerite and is characteristic of a submarine, high-sulfidation volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit. Haile and Ridgeway are similar in that sediment-hosted gold mineralization is hosted by silicified, sheared and foliated siltstone.

Haile gold mineralization occurs as en echelon clusters of moderately to steeply dipping ore lenses within a 4 km x 1 km area. Nine named gold deposits are recognized at Haile. From west to east, these deposits include Champion, Small, Mill Zone, Haile, Ledbetter, Red Hill, Palomino, Snake and Horseshoe that often show ‘pearls on a string’ alignment. Ledbetter is by far the largest orebody (approximately 1M oz) and includes the shallow Chase and deep Mustang deposits. Orebody geometry, depth, size, grade, mineralogy, and alterati ........


Mining Methods

  • Transverse open stoping
  • Cemented backfill


Summary:

The Haile gold mine is located 5 km northeast of Kershaw in southern Lancaster County, South Carolina. The Project is currently being mined as an open pit mine. Mineralization extends down at depth and outside of the pit extents. This mineralization, not mined by the open pit, is assessed as an underground mine and is referred to as the Horseshoe deposit.

The underground mine is accessed via a decline from the surface. The decline portal is located on an open pit bench approximately 80 m below the natural surface. Two ventilation drift portals are also located on an open pit bench.

Transverse longhole mining has been selected as the mining method for the entire orebody. This method requires upper and lower access drifts to be developed from the footwall haulages with a proposed 25 m vertical spacing between levels. The total open stope height in 25 m with the overdrive drift above the open stope. The overall open stope dimensions are 20 m wide x 25 m high x 25 m long (maximum length).

Each stope has a 4.5 m x 5 m access located at the bottom of the stope. Top accesses (also 4.5 m x 5 m) are designed to give access to stopes on the next level and to allow for backfilling. The stopes are drilled from the top and rings are blasted from the end of a stope toward the footwall access. The blasted material is remotely mucked from the stope access. A primary/secondary stoping sequence will be used. The stope accesses are connected to a level access ........


Crushing and Grinding
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A relatively compact Run of Mine (ROM) area is provided for storage and re-handling of ore allowing blending to minimize variation of head grade (sulfur and gold) and rock type, into the crusher. Ore is rehandled into the crusher dump pocket by Front End Loader (FEL).

Ore is reclaimed by an apron feeder onto a vibrating grizzly that delivers scalped oversize to the primary jaw crusher to reduce the ore size from RoM to minus 150 mm. Crushed ore is conveyed for surge and storage of the recombined grizzly undersize fines and primary crushed ore in a coarse ore surge bin or diverted on to an open conical emergency stockpile for later reclaim by Front End Loader (FEL) into a reclaim bin.

Ore is reclaimed from either the surge or reclaim bins, separately or simultaneously, using apron feeders onto a SAG mill feed conveyor belt delivering into the SAG mill feed chute. Ore is milled in the SAG–Ball Mill-Pebble Crusher (SABC) circuit. The SAG mill operates in closed circuit with a vibrating discharge screen and a pebble return circuit incorporating a surge bin and Sandvik CH-440 cone crusher. The ball mill operates in closed circuit with hydrocyclones to produce the desired grinding product size of 75 microns.


Processing

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Projected Production:

CommodityUnitsAvg. Annual
Gold oz 70,000

Operational Metrics:

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* According to 2020 study.
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Reserves at December 31, 2021:
Underground reserves are stated using a 1.53 g/t Au cut-off.
Mineral Resources cut-off grade 1.35 g/t Au based on a gold price of US$1,700/oz.

CategoryTonnage CommodityGradeContained Metal
Probable 3.42 Mt Gold 3.78 g/t 0.42 M oz
Indicated 3.2 Mt Gold 5.05 g/t 0.52 M oz
Inferred 2 Mt Gold 4.6 g/t 0.3 M oz

Commodity Production Costs:

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Operating Costs:

Units2021
UG mining costs ($/t mined) USD 48.7 *
* According to 2021 study.

2021 Study Costs and Valuation Metrics :

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Proposed Heavy Mobile Equipment as of December 31, 2021:
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Mine Management:

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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

DocumentYear
Corporate Presentation 2022
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Annual Information Form 2018
Year-end Mineral Reserves 2018
Feasibility Study Report 2017
Press Release 2016
Feasibility Study Report 2015
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