• Data Access
  • Your Email  
  • Your Email  
Keep me signed in.
Forgot your password?
Close
  • Forgot Your Password?
  • Enter the email you signed up with and we'll email it to you.
  • Your Email  
Close
Back
MDO
Mining Data Solutions
  • Home
  • Database
  • Subscribe
  • Sign In
  • Sign In
Spain
Touro Project

This page is not tailored to
devices with screen width under 750 px.
 Location:
16 km E from Santiago de Compostela, Spain

  Project Contacts:
Lugar La Mina, s/n, A Coruña
Touro
Spain
15822
Phone  ...  Subscription required
EmailEmail
WebsiteWeb
Additional Resources for Suppliers & Investors
Drill results over 30 g/t Au
Stay on top of recent discoveries.
Search drill results by commodity and grade.
Largest mines in the Americas
Mining and mill throughput capaciites.
Full profiles of select mines and projects.
Deepest underground mines
Shaft depth and mill throughput data.
Full profiles of select mines and projects.
Heavy mobile equipment
HME type, model, size and quantity.
Full profiles of select mines and projects.
Permitting and construction projects
Projects at the permitting or construction stage. Full profiles of select projects.
Mines with remote camps
Camp size, mine location and contacts.
Full profiles of select mines and projects.
Mines & projects in Spain
A list of country's mines and projects.
Full profiles of select mines and projects.
  • Overview
  • Owners
  • Geology
  • Mining
  • Processing
  • Production
  • Reserves
  • Costs & Financials
  • Fleet
  • Personnel
  • Filings & News

Thank you for browsing through mine profiles compiled by the Mining Data Online team.

Would you like to subcribe or schedule a Demo?
  • Name:
     
  • Company:
     
  • Position:
     
  • Phone:
  • Email:
  • Message:

Overview

StagePermitting
Mine TypeOpen Pit
Commodities
  • Copper
  • Silver
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
Mine Life12 years (as of Jan 1, 2018)


Owners

Source: p. 313
CompanyInterestOwnership
Atalaya Mining Plc. 10 % Indirect
Explotaciones Gallegas S.L. 90 % Indirect
On February 2017, Atalaya exercised an option to acquire 10% of the share capital of Cobre San Rafael S.L., a wholly owned subsidiary of Explotaciones Gallegas S.L. This is part of an earn-in agreement which will enable the Atalaya to acquire up to 80% of Cobre San Rafael S.L.

Cobre San Rafael S.L. is the owner of Proyecto Touro.

Contractors

Subscription required - Subscription is required.


Deposit Type

  • VMS


Summary:

The Touro deposit is hosted in a continuous, highly deformed and metamorphosed horizon of metabasite and paragneiss of the Arinteiro Unit (Ordenes Complex). This horizon outcrops along the flanks and hinge zone of a broad north plunging antiformal structure for at least 8km along strike and up to 2km across strike. It extends beyond the project area and is open to depth.

The Arinteiro Unit is composed mainly by metabasites with minor lenses of ultramafic rocks and paragneisses (Gomez Barreiro, 2007). The mineralogy, grain size, and homogeneity of the metabasites are variable, most of the rock types are hornblende-plagioclase rocks with or without garnet (almandine), clinopyroxene (salite), and quartz. The rocks have undergone varying degrees of cataclasis commonly associated with retrogressive greenschist facies assemblages. The metabasites are strongly deformed showing tectonic banding, intrafoliar folds and oriented nematoblastic texture. Very locally, relict igneous textures have been described supporting the theory of a gabbroic protolith (Castineiras et al., 2002; Gomez Barreiro, 2007).

The metasediments of the O Pino Unit lie above and below the metabasites that have been interpreted as representing a flysh sequence (Gomez Barreiro, 2007). This unit is composed mainly of paragneisses with predominant greywacke composition. Minor pelitic metasediments, biotitic shists (sometimes rich in graphite), and amphibolite gneisses are also described in this ........


Mining Methods

  • Truck & Shovel / Loader


Summary:

Open pit copper mining operations have been conducted within the Touro project site during the 1970s and 1980s before being shut down in 1986 due to low metal prices. Old pit walls are presently standing well and vehicular access exists into the pit areas. Some pit dewatering will be required prior to new development work, particularly in the Vieiro pit.

Redevelopment of copper mining operations will use conventional, open pit methods, mining from benches on 10-m vertical intervals. Contractors' small-to medium-scale mining equipment will be used, including: rock drills capable of drilling 102- to 127-mm-diameter blastholes, hydraulic excavators and/or front-end loaders with bucket capacities of approximately 6-13 m3, off-highway trucks with 55- to 91-t payload capacities, and suitably sized support equipment.

Mining Pits/Phases.
Seven pits were developed using Lerchs-Grossmann (LG) pit shells based on a copper price of $2.60/lb, the final pushbacks for which are: Arinteiro-Vieiro, Arca 2, Bama 2, Brandelos 2, Monte 3, Monte 4, and Monte 5. Arinteiro-Vieiro has high Cu grades along with a high stripping ratio, and is the primary development target in the early years of operation. Five initial phases were designed to improve mill head grades during the first 6-7 years of operation, targeting smaller pit extents identified by $1.75 and $2.00/lb Cu LG shells. These phases are identified as: Arca 1, Bama 1, Brandelos 1, Monte 1, and Monte 2. "Monte" ref ........


Crushing and Grinding
Source: Subscription required

- subscription is required.


Processing

Flow Sheet: Subscription required

Summary:

- subscription is required.


Projected Production:

CommodityProductUnitsAvg. AnnualLOM
Copper Payable metal M lbs 751
Copper Metal in concentrate M lbs 66765
Copper Concentrate kt 1,189
Silver Payable metal koz  ......  Subscription required

Operational Metrics:

Metrics
Stripping / waste ratio 2.43 *
Waste tonnes, LOM 221,329 kt *
Ore tonnes mined, LOM 90,906 kt *
Total tonnes mined, LOM 312,235 kt *
Tonnes milled, LOM 90,906 kt *
Annual milling capacity 10 Mt *
* According to 2018 study.

Reserves at September 1, 2017:
The mineral reserve estimates by classification at a Cu price of $2.60/lb.

Resource - Constrained by the $3.20/lb Cu Pit.

CategoryTonnage CommodityGradeContained Metal
Proven 56,769 kt Copper 0.44 %
Probable 34,137 kt Copper 0.41 %
Proven & Probable 90,906 kt Copper 0.43 % 392,000 t
Measured 69,258 kt Copper 0.42 %
Indicated 60,592 kt Copper 0.36 %
Measured & Indicated 129,850 kt Copper 0.39 % 0.5 Mt
Inferred 46,521 kt Copper 0.37 % 0.2 Mt

Commodity Production Costs:

CommodityUnitsAverage
All-in sustaining costs (AISC) Copper USD 1.85 / lb *†  
C1 cash costs Copper USD 1.73 / lb *†  
Assumed price Copper USD 3 / lb *  
Assumed price Silver USD 19 / oz *  
* According to 2018 study / presentation.
† Net of By-Product.

Operating Costs:

Units2018
OP mining costs ($/t milled) USD 5.96 *
Direct operating costs ($/t milled) USD  ......  Subscription required
G&A ($/t milled) USD  ......  Subscription required
Total operating costs ($/t milled) USD  ......  Subscription required
* According to 2018 study.
Subscription required - Subscription is required.

2018 Study Costs and Valuation Metrics :

MetricsUnitsLOM Total
Initial CapEx $M USD  ......  Subscription required
Expansion CapEx $M USD  ......  Subscription required
Sustaining CapEx $M USD  ......  Subscription required
Closure costs $M USD  ......  Subscription required
Total CapEx $M USD  ......  Subscription required
OP OpEx $M USD  ......  Subscription required
Processing OpEx $M USD 586.1
G&A costs $M USD 72.8
Total OpEx $M USD  ......  Subscription required
Total Taxes $M USD  ......  Subscription required
Gross revenue (LOM) $M USD  ......  Subscription required
Net revenue (LOM) $M USD  ......  Subscription required
EBITDA (LOM) $M USD  ......  Subscription required
After-tax Cash Flow (LOM) $M USD  ......  Subscription required
After-tax NPV @ 8% $M USD  ......  Subscription required
After-tax IRR, %  ......  Subscription required
Subscription required - Subscription is required.


Proposed Heavy Mobile Equipment as of April 1, 2018:
HME TypeModelSizeQuantityLeased or
Contractor
Backhoe 60 t ....................... Subscription required Leased
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Leased
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Leased
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Leased
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Leased
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Leased
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Leased
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Leased
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Leased
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Leased
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Leased
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Leased
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Leased
Subscription required - Subscription is required.

Mine Management:

Job TitleNamePhoneProfileRef. Date
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Apr 1, 2018
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Subscription required Sep 23, 2022
Subscription required - Subscription is required.

Staff:

EmployeesContractorsTotal WorkforceYear
Subscription required Subscription required Subscription required 2018

Corporate Filings & Presentations:

DocumentYear
Corporate Presentation 2022
Pre-Feasibility Study Report 2018
Subscription required - Subscription is required.

Subscription required - Subscription is required.

Terms of Use Privacy Policy © 2017-2023 MDO Data Online Inc.