- Common annual gold equal manufacturing of 146,000 ounces over first 10 years at a mean AISC of $790/gold equal ounce
- Complete preliminary capex of $399 million
- Pre-tax Internet Current Worth of $447 million; IRR of 21.3% at $1,550/oz gold and $3.30/lb copper
TORONTO, March 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Euro Solar Mining Inc. (TSX: ESM) (“Euro Solar” or the “Firm”) is happy to announce the optimistic outcomes of the Definitive Feasibility Examine (“DFS”) on the Colnic and Rovina open pits – the preliminary part of improvement of its Rovina Valley Gold and Copper Undertaking (the “Rovina Valley Undertaking”) in Romania. Together with the DFS, the Firm can be offering an up to date mineral useful resource estimate for the Rovina Valley Undertaking incorporating present steel costs and working parameters. All quantities are in US {dollars} except in any other case indicated.
Euro Solar is using a phased improvement strategy for the Rovina Valley Undertaking. The Rovina Valley Undertaking consists of two open pit gold-copper deposits, Colnic and Rovina, and the underground Ciresata gold-copper deposit. The DFS is concentrated on the exploitation of the 2 open pit operations. The Ciresata underground deposit is anticipated to be phased in following the completion of the Colnic and Rovina pits.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Common annual gold equal manufacturing of 146,000 ounces in 12 months 1-10, consisting of 106,000 ounces of gold and 19 million kilos of copper each year
- Common AISC of $790/gold equal ounces in years 1-10
- Preliminary capex is anticipated to be $399 million (together with $12.7 million in pre-strip)
- Pre-Tax NPV5% of $447 million with an IRR of 21.3% and Submit-Tax NPV5% of $359 million with an IRR of 19.2% at $1,550/oz gold and $3.30/lb copper
- Processing 21,000 tonnes per day incorporating easy flotation and dry stack tailings
- Section 1 manufacturing of over 1.3 million ounces of gold and 400 million lbs of copper (185k tonnes) over 16.8 years
Scott Moore, Euro Solar’s CEO states, “The 2021 Definitive Feasibility Examine highlights a optimistic financial undertaking for our preliminary part of improvement on the Rovina Valley Undertaking. An expanded lifetime of mine to virtually 17 years coupled with a conservative steel value mannequin has delivered an NPV virtually 100% greater than the PEA of 2019. The DFS delivers a a lot greater diploma of confidence in each the capital required to construct the undertaking and the working prices, even when using greater price dry stacking. At spot copper and gold costs, the NPV virtually doubles once more highlighting the big leverage of the Rovina Valley Undertaking.”
Desk 1: Definitive Feasibility Highlights
| DFS Section 1 Highlights | Lifetime of Mine | First 10 Years |
| Gold value | $1550/oz | |
| Copper value | $3.30/lb | |
| Processing Price | 21,000 tonnes per day | |
| Mine Life | 16.8 Years | |
| Common annual gold equal manufacturing | 132,000 ounces | 146,000 ounces |
| Common annual gold manufacturing | 81,000 ounces | 106,000 ounces |
| Common annual copper manufacturing | 24.3 million kilos | 19 million kilos |
| All-in sustaining prices | $813/oz Au eq | $790/oz Au eq |
| Pre-strip Capital | $12.7 million | |
| Preliminary Capital | $386.6 million | |
| Complete Preliminary Capital | $399.2 million | |
| Sustaining Capital | $47.7 million | |
| Pre-Tax NPV (5% low cost fee) | $447 million | |
| Pre-Tax IRR | 21.3% | |
| Submit-Tax NPV (5% low cost fee) | $359.3 million | |
| Submit-Tax IRR | 19.2% | |
The technical report associated to the DFS outcomes shall be filed on SEDAR inside 45 days, in accordance with Nationwide Instrument 43-101 (“NI 43-101”) The research has been ready with enter from the next unbiased consultants:
| Caracle Creek Worldwide Consulting MINRES – CCIC (South Africa) | Mineral sources |
| DRA (South Africa) | Mining, mineral reserves |
| ERM (Romania) | Environmental and social |
| Klohn Crippen Berger (KCB) (Canada) | Tailings services, Geotechnical and Hydrogeology |
| Lawrence Consulting (Canada) | Geochemistry |
| SENET (South Africa) | Processing plant and infrastructure |
| SENET and Sidus Consulting | Financial valuation / monetary modelling |
Rovina Valley Gold-Copper Undertaking Overview
The Rovina Valley Undertaking is located within the Hunedoara county of Transylvania in western – central Romania. The Rovina Valley Undertaking consists of three deposits, Rovina to the North, Colnic Central and the Ciresata deposit to the south. The DFS solely incorporates with the Rovina and the Colnic deposits whereas the Ciresata deposit will be introduced into the undertaking for improvement later. The Rovina exploration licence is held by Samax Romania S.R.L a Romanian registered firm which is a completely owned subsidiary of ESM. Since November 2018, ESM has possessed an exploitation allow and mining licence with a renewable 20-year validity.
The Colnic and Ciresata deposits are described as gold-copper porphyries whereas the Rovina deposit is termed a copper-gold porphyry. All three of those deposits are situated such that they’ll entry a central processing plant. The Rovina Valley Undertaking processing facility is being designed to supply a gold and copper focus from the Colnic and Rovina deposits.
The Rovina Valley Undertaking is throughout the Golden Quadrilateral Mining District of the South Apuseni Mountains, an space with a historical past of mining courting again to Roman instances. This has supported the event of fantastic infrastructure together with rail, energy and paved entry roads. As well as, there are two worldwide airports lower than 180km from the undertaking location. These being within the cities of Timisoara and Sibiu. The city of Brad is inside 5km of the undertaking website from the place there shall be a superb supply of native expert labour. Sourcing the suitable abilities and sources domestically helps ESM group upliftment alternatives.
The Rovina Valley Undertaking is deliberate to be mined with an ordinary open-pit mining technique utilizing articulated vehicles and a hydraulic loader. The open pit mining operation is anticipated to final roughly sixteen and a half years, throughout which the lower-grade materials shall be stockpiled on a pad near the first crusher location for therapy over one other eighteen months.
Over the lifetime of the undertaking, it’s anticipated that 133.4 Mt of ore shall be mined. Of this ore, 119.4 Mt shall be delivered to the processing facility and 14 Mt low grade ore stockpiled for future processing. A complete of 246.7 Mt of fabric shall be mined and positioned on the waste facility, representing a lifetime of mine stripping ratio of 1.85:1.
Tailings Administration
KCB have designed a waste administration facility throughout the undertaking space for the co-deposition of waste rock and filtered rougher tailings. Course of plant rougher tailings shall be filtered within the plant the place the resultant filter cake shall be transported by conveyors and shall be co-mingled with waste rock previous to deposition. The cleaner tails shall be filtered individually from the rougher tailings and the resultant filter cake shall be transported by conveyors and deposited individually inside a lined zone contained throughout the boundary of the co-mingled facility and shall be saved individually in a lined zone of the waste administration facility. This design has been engineered to cut back the danger of improvement of impacted seepage from probably acid producing waste rock and seize the impacted seepage from the cleaner tailings. After completion of mining the Colnic pit, the waste rock and rougher tailings shall be preferentially backfilled into the Colnic pit, whereas the cleaner tails will proceed to report back to the lined zone of the waste administration facility.
Capital Prices
The estimated capital prices for the Rovina Valley Undertaking have been in virtually all instances constructed up from quotations and proposals from tools and repair suppliers. The DFS prices at the moment make the most of an proprietor bought and operated mining fleet. All monetary evaluation for the Lifetime of Mine contains the entire design, development and commissioning, manufacturing, and closure.
Undertaking Alternatives
The DFS has been accomplished primarily based upon the event of the Colnic and Rovina pits solely. Additional growing and treating the useful resource at Ciresata might additional prolong the lifetime of the operation whereas utilising the identical infrastructure and processing capabilities already in operation.
Rovina Valley Undertaking 2021 Useful resource Replace
Three porphyry deposits, Rovina (Cu-Au), Colnic (Au-Cu), and Ciresata (Au-Cu), from north to south, comprise the Rovina Valley Undertaking and lie inside Euro Solar’s 100% owned Rovina Mining License in west-central Romania. All three deposits are in shut proximity and, given related metallurgy, will be handled at a central processing facility. Colnic and Rovina are amenable to open-pit mining and are included within the present 2021 DFS, and Ciresata is envisioned as a bulk underground mining operation and shall be evaluated for its financial potential in a later research.
Euro Solar is releasing an up to date Nationwide Instrument (NI) 43-101 compliant mineral useful resource estimate (“2021 Useful resource Estimate”) as supplied by unbiased consultants CCIC (Geology) and DRA (Engineering) for the Colnic and Rovina deposits and included an in depth technical overview of the useful resource fashions. The 2021 Useful resource Estimate updates the NI 43-101 compliant 2019 Useful resource Estimate on the Rovina and Colnic deposits accomplished by AGP Mining Consultants Inc. (Technical Report filed on SEDAR: Rovina Valley Undertaking, Preliminary Financial Evaluation, NI 43-101, Feb. 20, 2019) primarily to mirror the up to date working parameters used within the DFS and better steel costs on useful resource constraining Lerchs-Grossman algorithm pit optimizer utilizing acceptable cut-off grades. The geologic mannequin and interpolated block fashions for Colnic and Rovina aren’t modified on this present estimate.
Mineral sources have been estimated in conformance with the CIM Mineral Useful resource and Mineral Reserve definitions referred to in NI 43-101 and are thought of to have cheap prospects for financial extraction. The technical report associated to the mineral useful resource estimate proven beneath shall be filed on SEDAR at www.SEDAR.com inside 45 days.
Certified Individuals
The mineral sources outcomes acknowledged on this press launch have been reviewed and authorised by Mr. Sivanesan (Desmond) Subramani (Pri. Sci. Nat – 400184/06), Principal for Mineral Sources at Caracle Creek Worldwide Consultants, who’s an unbiased Certified Individual as outlined by Nationwide Instrument 43-101. Mr. D Subramani was accountable for the mineral useful resource estimate of the Feasibility Examine. Mr. D Subramani confirmed that he has reviewed the knowledge on this press launch because it pertains to the mineral useful resource estimate.
Desk 2: Rovina Valley 2021 Mineral Reserve Estimate Colnic and Rovina Deposits
| Deposit | Classification | Tonnage (Mt) | Au (g/t) | Cu (%) | Au (koz) | Cu (t) |
| Colnic | Confirmed | 24.27 | 0.64 | 0.11% | 500.5 | 26 860.9 |
| Possible | 49.49 | 0.52 | 0.08% | 828.7 | 41 004.7 | |
| Rovina | Confirmed | 24.01 | 0.32 | 0.28% | 247.8 | 67 469.3 |
| Possible | 35.62 | 0.22 | 0.20% | 249.5 | 72 896.1 | |
| Colnic & Rovina | Confirmed | 48.28 | 0.48 | 0.20% | 748.3 | 94 330.2 |
| Possible | 85.11 | 0.39 | 0.13% | 1 078.2 | 113 900.8 | |
| Complete | Confirmed & Possible | 133.40 | 0.43 | 0.16% | 1 826.5 | 208 231.0 |
The Mineral reserve estimate makes use of a base gold value of $1,500/oz and a base copper value of $3.00/lb
Notes:
- All tonnes quoted are dry tonnes. Variations within the addition of deposit tonnes to the entire displayed is because of rounding.
- The estimate of Rovina Valley Gold Undertaking Mineral Reserves aren’t at this stage materially affected by any identified environmental, allowing, authorized, title, taxation, socioeconomic, advertising, political, or different related subject. Moreover, the estimate of Undertaking Reserves is not materially affected by any identified mining, metallurgical, infrastructure, or different related issue.
- Mineral Reserve estimates observe the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (“CIM”) definitions requirements for Mineral Sources and Reserves and have been accomplished in accordance with the Requirements of Disclosure for Mineral Tasks as outlined by Nationwide Instrument 43-101.
Desk 3: Rovina Valley 2021 Mineral Useful resource Estimate Colnic and Rovina Deposits
| Deposit | Classification | Tonnage (Mt) | Au (g/t) | Cu (%) | Au (Moz) | Cu (Mlb) | Au Eq* (g/t) | Au Eq* (Moz) |
| Colnic | Measured | 29.1 | 0.65 | 0.12 | 0.61 | 77 | 0.82 | 0.77 |
| Indicated | 97.5 | 0.49 | 0.10 | 1.53 | 215 | 0.63 | 1.98 | |
| Rovina | Measured | 33.1 | 0.36 | 0.29 | 0.38 | 212 | 0.77 | 0.82 |
| Indicated | 78.1 | 0.26 | 0.22 | 0.66 | 379 | 0.57 | 1.43 | |
| Colnic & Rovina | Measured | 62.2 | 0.50 | 0.21 | 0.99 | 289 | 0.79 | 1.58 |
| Indicated | 175.6 | 0.39 | 0.15 | 2.19 | 594 | 0.60 | 3.41 | |
| Complete | Measured & Indicated | 237.8 | 0.42 | 0.17 | 3.18 | 882 | 0.65 | 4.99 |
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Desk 4: Rovina Valley 2019 Mineral Useful resource Estimate Ciresata Deposit
| Deposit | Classification | Tonnage (Mt) | Au (g/t) | Cu (%) | Au (Moz) | Cu (Mlb) | Au Eq* (g/t) | Au Eq* (Moz) |
| Ciresata | Measured | 28.5 | 0.88 | 0.16 | 0.81 | 102 | 1.13 | 1.03 |
| Indicated | 125.9 | 0.74 | 0.15 | 3.01 | 413 | 0.97 | 3.92 | |
| Complete | Measured & Indicated | 154.4 | 0.77 | 0.15 | 3.82 | 515 | 1.00 | 4.95 |
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On a consolidated foundation of measured and indicated sources, the Rovina Valley Undertaking contains 392.2 Mt containing 6.98 Moz gold and 1,397 Mlbs copper equal to 9.94 M gold equal ounces.
Mr. Randy Ruff, P.Geo, an worker of Euro Solar and a certified particular person as outlined by NI 43-101 has additionally reviewed and authorised the contents of this press launch regarding the mineral useful resource estimation.
About Euro Solar Mining Inc.
Euro Solar is a Toronto Inventory Trade listed mining firm centered on the exploration and improvement of its 100%-owned Rovina Valley gold and copper undertaking situated in west-central Romania, which hosts the second largest gold deposit in Europe.
For additional details about Euro Solar Mining, or the contents of this press launch, please contact Investor Relations at info@eurosunmining.com
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