Q3-2024 Production Results and Operational Highlights

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Serabi Gold plc
Serabi Gold plc

Q3-2024 Production Results and Operational Highlights

Serabi Gold plc (“Serabi” or the “Company”) (AIM:SRB, TSX:SBI, OTCQX:SRBIF), the Brazilian focused gold mining and development company, is pleased to announce the Company’s third quarter production results and operating highlights for FY2024 (all financial amounts are expressed in U.S. dollars unless otherwise indicated).

QUARTER HIGHLIGHTS

  • Highest quarterly gold production year to date of 9,489 ounces for Q3-2024.

  • Released results of the updated pre-economic assessment (“Updated PEA”) for its currently producing Coringa Gold operation (“Coringa”), prepared by NCL Ingeniería y Construcción SpA of Santiago, Chile (“NCL”). Highlights include:

    • Annual production of 28,000oz in 2025, ramping up to 36,000oz per year between 2026 and 2031 with an 11-year mine life until 2034 at an average life of mine AISC of $1,241/oz;

    • After-tax NPV10% of $145M with average life of mine annual free cash flow of $19M using a long-term gold price of $2,100/oz.

  • Construction of the classification plant (crusher and ore sorter) progressing on time and budget; Commissioning trials of the crusher already ongoing. The ore sorter remains on track to being fully operational during Q4.

  • Cash as at 30 September 2024 was $20.0M vs cash as at 31 December 2023 of $11.6M.

  • Net cash balance at quarter end (after interest bearing loans and lease liabilities) of $14.0M (31 December 2023: net cash $5.0M)

  • The Company is reiterating FY2024 consolidated gold production guidance of 38,000 – 40,000 ounces.

Mike Hodgson, CEO of Serabi, commented:

“The third quarter has been our best quarterly production year to date with close to 9,500 ounces generated. The process plant again performed admirably with another quarter recording approximately 55,000 milled tonnes (600 tonnes per day). Mine output also exceeded 58,000 tonnes.

The Coringa orebody continued to perform well with production principally now coming from levels 290m and 260m. The main Serra ramp has now reached level 165m and with development on levels 225m, 195m and 165m the mine is being developed well ahead of production. As mentioned in the past, the conversion of inferred resources into reserves at Coringa is close to 90% and therefore, the return of mineral reserves per metre developed is highly beneficial.

The classification plant being assembled at Coringa is now close to completion and remains on track to being operational during Q4. The Company plan to pre-concentrate mined ore at Coringa and truck this preconcentrated product to the Palito plant, 200km to the north, has been formally documented in the forthcoming Updated PEA. The full NI 43-101 compliant Technical Report will be issued by November 21 at the latest.