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Thailand
Chatree Mine

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 Location:
280 km N from Bangkok, Thailand

  Address:
19th Floor, Sathorn Thani Building 2 No. 92/54-55 North Sathorn Road Kwaeng Silom
Bangkok
Thailand
10500
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Overview

StatusCare and Maintenance
Mine TypeOpen Pit
Commodities
  • Gold
  • Silver
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
Processing
  • Carbon in leach (CIL)
  • AARL elution
  • Solvent Extraction & Electrowinning
In May 2016, the Thai Government announced that all gold mining in Thailand would cease by 31 December 2016.

As a result, Chatree was placed on Care and Maintenance on 1 January 2017.
Latest NewsKingsgate receives $82 million from insurance case     March 19, 2019


Owners

 
CompanyInterestOwnership
Kingsgate Consolidated Ltd. 100 % Direct

Deposit Type

  • Epithermal


Summary:

The geology of the host rocks and the mineralisation is exposed in the open pit mines in the Chatree leases and the area has been the subject of a number of geological investigations commissioned by Akara.

In the mine area, the host volcanic sequence comprises four main units. The basal unit is dominated by andesite lavas and breccias, containing dacite dome complexes. This is followed by a thick sequence dominated by andesitic breccia. Overlying this is a largely sedimentary package with interfingering rhyolitic breccias. The uppermost unit in the mine area is a lithic rich fiamme breccia. As the lithologies interfinger, the locations of some unit boundaries in core, and especially in chips, are not always clear. All units are cut by dykes, predominantly andesitic, and typically less than 10 metres wide.

Epithermal gold deposits, such as those at Chatree, are generally formed in areas of active volcanism around the margins of continents, and may be associated with “bonanza” or high grade style mineralisation. Mineralisation in such deposits is deposited from hot fluids which are estimated to range in temperatures from less than 100 degrees centigrade to approximately 300 degrees centigrade. The mineralisation contained in these fluids is deposited as they rise to elevated crustal settings and boil, cool or mix with evolved nearsurface waters which oxidise the fluids to promote high grade gold deposition. The fluids usually travel toward the surface via fractures in the rocks and the resulting mineralisation often occurs at the intersection of these fractures and brittle host rocks in layered volcanic sequences.

The gold mineralisation is closely associated with a variety of types of quartz carbonate veins, some of which contain sulphides. They vary in width from millimetres to tens of metres. Significant amounts of silver and very minor amounts of zinc and lead are also associated with the mineralisation. The deposit is classed as low sulphidation epithermal, and sulphides tend to comprise less than 3% of the ore mass (Cumming, et al). Visible gold is rare within the system. Chlorite is common both in the veins and as alteration in the host rock.

The style of quartz carbonate gold mineralisation found at Chatree is common to a number of the most prolific gold producers in the Pacific rim, including Porgera and Misima in Papua New Guinea, Kelian and Mount Muro in Indonesia (Corbett). The variety of low sulphidation epithermal gold deposits all display controls dominated by structure, competent host rocks and efficient mechanisms of Au deposition.


Mining Methods

  • Truck & Shovel / Loader


Summary:

All mining operations at Chatree are currently open pit. Recent activity has been focused on A and Q Pits.

Of the excavations, A Pit will be the largest, providing more than 50% of the future plant feed, as currently planned. The pattern of mineralisation and intrusive dykes, shown with the superseded outline of A Pit based on ore reserves previously estimated at a projected gold price of US$750 per ounce, is illustrated in. The zone was initially developed by two starter pits, which will eventually merge.

The open pit operations are conventional, and involve drilling and blasting of all materials except topsoil. The pits were previously blasted as 6-metre high benches, although 9-metre high benches are being established in A Pit. All benches are then excavated as 3-metre high flitches. Eleven drill rigs are employed, providing 102 mm to 115 mm diameter blast holes.


Crushing and Grinding


Processing

  • Carbon in leach (CIL)
  • AARL elution
  • Solvent Extraction & Electrowinning

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Summary:

Chatree employs conventional CIL processing in two semi-parallel plants. CIL is a well proven method of extracting gold, along with silver and is now used in most modern gold plants throughout the world. The two plants each comprise separate crushing and grinding circuits followed by leaching and CIL tanks. Gold and silver are taken into solution by a dilute cyanide leach and adsorbed onto activated carbon.

The original plant consisted of 12 tanks, each of 720 m3 capacity. Plant 2 consists of 11 tanks, each of 2,500 m3 capacity. It was built such that the first 4 tanks were dedicated leach tanks with the remaining 7 tanks as CIL tanks. Tanks 2 to 4 have now been converted to CIL tanks.

Residence time in the integrated CIL circuit is achieved by directing the flow from the last CIL tank from Plant 1 to tank 4 of Plant 2. Loaded carbon is directed to AARL stripping circuits. Gold and silver from each plant are removed from the carbon, recovered from the eluted sol ........

Recoveries & Grades:

CommodityParameter20172016
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Gold Head Grade, g/t 1.20.7
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Production:

CommodityUnits20172016
Gold oz 89,87597,510
All production numbers are expressed as metal in doré.

Operational Metrics:

Metrics20172016
Ore tonnes mined 2,589 kt3,168 kt
Stripping / waste ratio 0.9 2.5
Tonnes processed 2,773 kt5,515 kt

Reserves at December 31, 2019:

CategoryTonnage CommodityGradeContained Metal
Measured 73.2 Mt Gold 0.69 g/t 1.63 M oz
Measured 73.2 Mt Silver 6.2 g/t 14.6 M oz
Measured 73.2 Mt Gold Equivalent 0.74 g/t 1.74 M oz
Measured 73.2 Mt Silver Equivalent 100 g/t 237 M oz
Indicated 49.8 Mt Gold 0.64 g/t 1.02 M oz
Indicated 49.8 Mt Silver 5.58 g/t 8.9 M oz
Indicated 49.8 Mt Gold Equivalent 0.68 g/t 1.09 M oz
Indicated 49.8 Mt Silver Equivalent 93 g/t 148 M oz
Inferred 40.6 Mt Gold 0.59 g/t 0.77 M oz
Inferred 40.6 Mt Silver 4.5 g/t 5.9 M oz
Inferred 40.6 Mt Gold Equivalent 0.62 g/t 0.81 M oz
Inferred 40.6 Mt Silver Equivalent 85 g/t 111 M oz

Commodity Production Costs:

CommodityUnits20172016
Total cash costs Gold USD 549 / oz 895 / oz

Financials:

Units20172016
Revenue M USD 191.54   174.93  
Pre-tax Income M USD 39.5   -242.1  
EBITDA M USD 90.7   29.8  


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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

DocumentYear
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Annual Report 2018
Annual Report 2017
Technical Report 2013
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News:

NewsDate
Kingsgate receives $82 million from insurance case March 19, 2019

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