Nativo Resources plc has completed additional underground sampling, which aims to confirm the structural continuity of the vein system at the Tesoro concession in Peru.
PREPARATIONS
The company said it took 117 samples, which would also support the start of production as well as optimise mine planning and grade control at the Bonanza gold mine.
The additional programme followed January’s positive initial assay results from surface trenching.
Results from the samples are expected in around three weeks.
Preparations for the start of operations have progressed with mining contractor, Constructora e Inversiones Andina Kuboc C&P SAC, arriving at the mine site.
Kuboc’s work will include widening shafts and galleries and installing equipment at the shaft head to allow more efficient recovery of material to the surface.
Tesoro, which contains the Bonanza and Morrocota mines, is located in the Nazca Ocona gold corridor in Arequipa, south of Lima.