Lower mining costs bucking inflationary pressures largely offset lower average silver prices, keeping sector unit profits strong. That enabled the silver miners to fundamentally-outperform the gold miners in Q4’21, which is unusual.
The initial drilling program is expected to consist of approximately 3,000 meters of HQ diamond core drilling in six, 500-meter-deep holes. A follow-up drill program will be considered following receipt of the initial results.
AISC during the Life-of-Mine of $11.97/oz AgEq. Initial Capital Expenditure of $255.0 million, with payback period of 2.6 years. In first 5 years of 8.0 Moz Ag and 44.3 koz Au, (11.4 Moz AgEq) ...
The acquisition of Pitarrilla, one of the world’s largest undeveloped silver projects, accelerates our vision to become a premier senior silver producer.
“We continue to see exceptional drilling results within the El Curso and the Santa Cruz Sur systems at our Guanacevi silver mine. We have been operating at Guanacevi for more than 15 years and these encouraging results support our view that we can continue to extend the mine life.”
