Katoro Gold Project to reprocess 1.34 million ounce of gold
Katoro Gold Plc has entered into a binding conditional agreement to form a 50/50 unincorporated joint venture in South Africa, focused on the reprocessing of an existing 1.34 million ounce of gold JORC compliant tailings resource, completed technical work related to the upgrade and restatement of the Blyvoor Gold Tailings Project resource statement and completed additional technical and financial work that was conducted in response to the recommendations and findings of the Blyvoor Scoping Study.
Katoro is currently in the processes of finalizing a comprehensive funding package in accordance with the Blyvoor Joint Venture (the JV) that will allow the construction, commissioning and operation of a mining and processing facility capable of processing 500,000 tonnes of tailings material per month, at an average Life of Mine (“LoM”) gold grade of 0.29 g/t and confirmed recovery of 51%, before incorporating recovery gains from the latest metallurgical optimization tests.
The optimization results indicated that overall recoveries of up to 60% can be achieved by milling the coarser fraction (+75µm) of the feedstock which comprises around 30% of the total Run of Mine (RoM).
Katoro, concluded the disposal of its Imweru and Lubando Gold Projects in Tanzania for a total staged cash consideration of up to US$1.0 million and a 1.5% Net Smelter Royalty.
Funding of £1.45 million through placing completed in late 2020 which has enabled the Company to continue with our project development plans and ongoing working capital requirements during 2021.
