Mining Project

Hualilán

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General Information

  • Investment Company:  CHALLENGER GOLD LTD.
  • Operating Company:  GOLDEN MINING
  • Source of Capital:  Australia
  • Address:  Level 1, 1205 Hay Street West Perth WA 6005
  • Phone:  +61 8 6380 9235

Project Details

Location

Located approximately 120km north-northwest of San Juan city - Located on National Road 149 at 1,700 masl - San Juan Province

Description

Distal Zn and Au skarn deposit, with locally high-grade Au mineralization, hosted in underlying intrusive rocks.

Minerals

Gold - Silver,Zinc,Lead

Stage

Scoping study

Capital Cost

$211,000,000.00

Mine Operation

A low-risk starter pit followed by conventional sub-level open stope (SLOS) underground mining

Processing

Processing facility includes a crusher, mill, gravity recovery circuit, conventional sulphide floatation, and floatation-tails leaching (FTL)

Average Annual Production
  • 116,000 oz gold
  • 440,000 oz silver
  • 9,175 tons oz zinc (141.000 oz gold equiv.)
Remaining Life

7 Years

Resources & Reserves

Resource (indicated and inferred) of 2.8 Moz of gold equivalent.

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Additional Comments

The current 2.1 Moz resource extends over 2.2 km strike and remains open in all directions extends over 3.5 km strike. In November 2023 Challenger Gold presented the results of the Hualilán Scoping Study. The company concluded that Hualilán has strong financial indicators, impressive operational findings and considerable additional potential, including: Low-risk starter pit followed by conventional sub-level open stope (SLOS) underground mining;

  • Processing facility includes a crusher, mill, gravity recovery circuit, conventional sulphide floatation, and floatation-tails leaching (FTL), with schedule LOM throughput of 1.05 Mtpa;
  • Production schedule is comprised of 81% Indicated Resource and 19% Inferred Resource
  • The underground optimisation at US$1700/oz Au excluded 880 kt of stopes grading 2.7 g/t AuEq from the mine plan, which are likely economic to mine at today's gold price; During a late phase in the preparation of the scoping study, an opportunity was identified to upgrade the Au-Ag concentrate into doré via a fine-grind and high-intensity cyanide leach circuit, however at the time of the Scoping Study release the supporting test work was incomplete. In late December, Hualilan Gold Project has reached a pivotal environmental achievement by obtaining a neutral carbon footprint certification.