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Argentina
Taca Taca Project

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 Location:
34 km W from Tolar Grande, Argentina

  Project Contacts:
Carlos Pellegrini 125- 9° Piso - Dpto.B, Buenos Aires
San Pedro
Argentina
C1009ABC
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Overview

StagePermitting
Mine TypeOpen Pit
Commodities
  • Copper
  • Gold
  • Molybdenum
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
Mine Life32 years (as of Jan 1, 2020)
Taca Taca is one of the largest, highest-quality copper projects globally.

The Company is continuing with the project pre-development and feasibility activities. The primary Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (“ESIA”) for the project, which covers the principal proposed project sites, was submitted to the Secretariat of Mining of Salta Province in 2019 and approval of the ESIA is anticipated in late 2022. Two additional environmental permits were filed with the relevant authorities during the second quarter of 2021, including one for the transmission line to connect the project to the national electrical grid, and another for the proposed bypass and access road construction for the project. The project will also require approval of a concession for borefield water supply and is completing additional water supply studies and fuel tests in 2022 in advance of the permit application. A Board decision to advance the Taca Taca project is not expected before 2024 or 2025.


Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
First Quantum Minerals Ltd. 100 % Indirect
The project is owned 100% by the First Quantum Minerals Ltd. through its Argentinian subsidiary Corriente Argentina S.A.

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Deposit Type

  • Porphyry
  • Vein / narrow vein


Summary:

Taca Taca has porphyry copper-gold-molybdenum mineralisation located in the southern half of a 50 km long Ordovician batholith, which forms the Sierra de Taca Taca mountain range. The Taca Taca mineralisation is hosted by plutonic rocks of granitic composition together with lesser dacite, dolerite, and rhyolite intrusions. The porphyry is characterised by kilometre-scale zones of hydrothermally altered rocks that grade from a central potassic core to outer phyllic and argillic zones. Phyllic alteration is most pervasive across the deposit and is closely associated with mineralisation.

Mineralisation is comprised of supergene (chalcocite) and hypogene (chalcopyrite) zones. A sub-surface leached horizon of varying thickness overlies the supergene and hypogene mineralisation. Mineralisation is disseminated and in fractures, veinlets, and quartz vein stockworks.

The leached horizon is largely depleted of copper mineralisation except for a zone of chalcocite-rich ore perched within the leached material to the east of the deposit. In addition, a zone of supergene gold mineralisation, close to surface, is present above the thickest portion of leached material.

Hypogene copper sulphides are mostly chalcopyrite with lesser bornite, chalcocite, covellite, and digenite. The mineralisation is broadly zoned with a chalcopyrite-bornite-molybdenite core yielding to a stronger pyritic halo around the outer edges. Supergene zones are mostly secondary sulphi ........


Mining Methods

  • Truck & Shovel / Loader


Summary:

The Taca Taca deposit grades, geometry, and depth make it suitable for conventional, large-scale, bulk open pit mining methods involving blasthole drills, diesel hydraulic excavators, electric shovels and off-highway haul trucks.

Open pit mining would proceed in phases from an initial starter pit, supplying pre-strip development waste for site infrastructure and construction, and ore onto stockpile for process plant commissioning. The average and maximum material movements over this three year timeframe are 32.9 Mbcm and 43.3 Mbcm, respectively. There is a pronounced peak in material movements over the next ten years as the first three pit phases are completed and mining proceeds into the fourth phase. The average and maximum material movements over this period are 91.9 Mbcm and 95.7 Mbcm, respectively. Thereafter, the average and maximum material movements reduce to 42.3 Mbcm and 65.2 Mbcm, respectively.

Loading and hauling
A fleet of Company owned and operated primary mining equipment would be used for loading and hauling of plant feed to a ROM pad crusher at the processing plant , and for waste to external dumps, and ore to interim stockpiles. It is expected that on-highway trucks would be used to haul material to the TSF starter embankment as required.

The primary loading and hauling equipment is expected to be electric powered shovels with approximately 90 t bucket capacity, matched with 360 t capacity haul trucks. A large excavato ........


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Projected Production:

CommodityProductUnitsAvg. AnnualLOM
Copper Concentrate kt 98628,500
Copper Payable metal M lbs 13,934
Copper Metal in copper conc. M lbs 49514,491
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Reserves at October 30, 2020:
The actual marginal cut-off grade for the Mineral Reserve varies according to the copper recovery assigned to the various mineralogical groupings. However, the overall average marginal copper cut-off grade is in the order of 0.13% Cueq. An elevated cut-off grade of 0.20% Cueq applies to the plant feed inventory for the production schedule.
Mineral Resource using a 0.13% Cueq cut-off grade.

CategoryTonnage CommodityGradeContained Metal
Proven & Probable 1,759 Mt Copper 0.44 % 7,735 kt
Proven & Probable 1,759 Mt Gold 0.09 g/t 5,087 koz
Proven & Probable 1,759 Mt Molybdenum 0.012 % 213.5 kt
Measured & Indicated 2,203 Mt Copper 0.43 % 9,451 kt
Measured & Indicated 2,203 Mt Gold 0.09 g/t 6,052 koz
Measured & Indicated 2,203 Mt Molybdenum 0.012 % 264.54 kt
Inferred 716.9 Mt Copper 0.31 % 2,206 kt
Inferred 716.9 Mt Gold 0.05 g/t 1,183 koz
Inferred 716.9 Mt Molybdenum 0.009 % 65.15 kt

Commodity Production Costs:

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Operating Costs:

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OP mining costs ($/t mined) USD 1.69 *
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2021 Study Costs and Valuation Metrics :

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Processing OpEx $M USD 8,381
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G&A costs $M USD 1,847
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Proposed Heavy Mobile Equipment as of November 30, 2020:
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Mine Management:

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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

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Preliminary Economic Assessment 2013
Year-end Mineral Reserves 2013
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