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Serabi Gold plc
(“Serabi” or the “Firm”)

Serabi delivers enhancing gold manufacturing for the fourth quarter of 2020.

Serabi Gold plc (AIM: SRB, TSX: SBI), the Brazilian centered gold mining and improvement firm, is happy to supply the outcomes and a overview of its fourth quarter operational and improvement actions within the Tapajos area of Para State, Northern Brazil. 

A PDF Model of this launch together with all photographs may be accessed utilizing the next hyperlink – https://bit.ly/38GD9Em

OPERATIONAL and DEVELOPMENT HIGHLIGHTS

• Fourth quarter gold manufacturing of seven,254 ounces, a small enchancment on the third quarter and leading to an annual complete of 32,003 ounces. 
• Manufacturing for December 2020 exceeded 3,000 ounces, the very best month-to-month end result for the reason that finish of April 2020.
• Whole ore mined in the course of the quarter of 46,275 tonnes at 5.24 grams per tonne (“g/t”) of gold.
• 43,440 tonnes of run of mine (“ROM”) ore have been processed by the plant from the mixed Palito and Sao Chico orebodies, with a median grade of 5.27 g/t of gold, an enchancment of 9% in contrast with Q3.
• 3,353 metres of horizontal improvement accomplished in the course of the quarter, the best since operations commenced, and a ten% enhance on the earlier quarter.  Over 12,200 metres have been developed in the course of the yr.
• Mine website and regional exploration actions resumed within the fourth quarter. A 32,000 metres drill programme is deliberate for 2021 with exercise underway on the lately acquired Sao Domingos exploration tenement, instantly to the west of Sao Chico in addition to Palito. 
• Geophysical surveys commenced and stay ongoing on the Firm’s Calico prospect.
• The much-anticipated award of the Licença Prévia (LP) for the Firm’s Coringa Gold venture, was issued by the state environmental company (“SEMAS”) on 8 October 2020

FINANCIAL AND CORPORATE HIGHLIGHTS

• Money totalled US$8.1 million on the finish of December 2020 (together with the preliminary excellent proceeds from a December gold sale of US$1.5 million).
• US$3.0 million paid within the quarter to Equinox Gold Corp (“Equinox”) below the staged cost plan for the Coringa gold venture.  Additional US$1.0 million paid on 1 January 2021 following which US$4.5 million stays excellent. Which is deliberate to have been settled in full in the course of the second quarter of 2021.
• No funds drawn down within the quarter from the convertible mortgage preparations with Greenstone Sources II LP (“Greenstone”) and a complete of solely US$2.0 million had been drawn down on the finish of December 2020.

2021 PRODUCTION GUIDANCE

• With the necessity to re-establish optionality within the operations by opening up further mine faces in the course of the early a part of 2021, the Firm anticipates that manufacturing for 2021 from the present Palito Advanced operations might be between 33,000 and 36,000 ounces with manufacturing in 2022 then rising to roughly 45,000 ounces. 

Mike Hodgson has offered interviews to BRR Media and Crux

BRR Media  –https://www.brrmedia.co.uk/broadcasts-embed/600065a659cf24171a328438/copied-from-5ee24bc35e278421d06982fe/?popup=true

Crux Traders – https://youtu.be/jtItFjCUNL4

Key Operational Data

1. Gold manufacturing figures are topic to modification pending ultimate agreed assays of the gold content material of the copper/gold focus and gold doré that’s delivered to the refineries.
2. Gold manufacturing totals for 2020 embody therapy of 39,207 tonnes of flotation tails at a grade of three.21g/t (2019: 29,976 tonnes @ 4.52g/t).
3. The desk could not sum attributable to rounding.

Mike Hodgson, CEO, commented:

“It goes with out saying that 2020 has introduced distinctive challenges, so in that context producing 7,254 ounces within the ultimate quarter to deliver annual gold manufacturing for the yr to over 32,000 ounces was successful.  Importantly with over 3,000 ounces being generated in December alone, our greatest month’s manufacturing since April, I believe we will see the advantages of a return to normality and may sit up for 2021 with nice optimism.  While we did forecast increased gold manufacturing for 2020, pre-pandemic, I consider all issues thought of, the general end result given the challenges confronted has been a wonderful end result.  The gold not produced throughout 2020, has not been misplaced.  It nonetheless stays within the floor and can due to this fact be produced sooner or later and with the continued energy of the gold value could generate higher revenues.

“As I reported final quarter, South America noticed the primary wave of the pandemic peaking within the third quarter and into the fourth quarter with a number of mining operations throughout the continent dealing with important challenges.  I consider a mix of our location, locking down the camps and initiating mass testing early within the pandemic actually helped us keep operations, while minimising the well being threat to our employees.  Our preventative actions have been essential and has allowed us to revive the on-site personnel numbers to pre-pandemic ranges in the course of the fourth quarter.  Moreover, I’m happy to say we now have been COVID-free since September. 

“In the course of the second and third quarters mining actions needed to be decreased as a way to decrease the numbers of personnel at website, this resulted in decrease mine output, which barely met plant capability and floor stockpiles have been consequently rundown.  This discount in mine output sadly diminished the profit we had deliberate from our ore sorter.  However, when put to make use of, the efficiency of the ore sorter has been exceptional.  Over the yr, it has processed over 23,000 tonnes of feed at a median grade of two.03 g/t Au.  The sorter discarded roughly 20,600 tonnes of low-grade materials (~0.6g/t of gold) leaving a high-grade product of two,818 tonnes at 12 g/t of gold.  The discarded 20,600 tonnes would have beforehand been processed by the plant, consuming valuable plant capability.  With a submit crushing plant course of value of roughly $35/tonne, and excluding tailings course of prices, it’s clear the sorter has already made a major contribution to its preliminary value, albeit with its restricted use.  With improvement charges climbing and a ramp up in mining exercise in the course of the first half of 2021, we hope to see the true advantages from the ore-sorter in the course of the second half of 2021 that had initially been anticipated in 2020.

“As talked about, mining charges have improved throughout this ultimate quarter and over the approaching months this may enhance optionality and with that, a continued enchancment in manufacturing grades.  The Ipe, Mogno and Pipocas veins continued to contribute nearly all of the manufacturing tonnage from the Palito orebody.  Within the Sao Chico orebody, ranges -48mRL and -63mRL, the deepest ranges have been labored, with elevated ranges of mining from the Julia vein on ranges 116mRL and 130mRL.  The rise in mining exercise has additionally resulted in a really welcome enchancment in improvement charges.  The fourth quarter noticed the best horizontal improvement charges since operations commenced and was the third consecutive quarter the place charges exceeded 3,000 metres monthly.  These improved improvement charges have come about with improved fleet availability and utilisation, however principally the introduction of a 3rd underground shift.  

“The fourth quarter has additionally seen the welcome return of exploration actions, with work focusing in three places particularly, the Palito and Sao Chico mine websites, and the newly acquired Sao Domingos prospect with three rigs arriving late within the quarter. 

“The primary rig was deployed to Sao Chico to select up the drilling of the ‘Western’ extension of the Sao Chico orebody and the preliminary outcomes thus far have been very encouraging.   

Use the hyperlink under to entry Determine 1 – Plan view of Sao Chico and geophysical anomalies to the west displaying chosen drilling outcomes –

https://bit.ly/2XElKFV

“The second rig has been deployed on the newly acquired Sao Domingos/Fofoca exploration tenement, which lies instantly to the west of Sao Chico.  The Sao Domingo tenement is wealthy in a number of artisanal workings, previous and current and the place some exceptionally high-grade ore has been mined. Our preliminary exploration actions are centred upon a few of these artisanal workings.  Two stand out prospects, Toucano and Atacadao, typify this and are of specific curiosity.  Toucano is a collection of artisanal open pits protecting a strike size of some 600 metres, which is reported to have produced distinctive grades, a few of which have been mined inside a 20-metre-wide mineralised zone to depths of 40 metres.  At Atacadao, a 11-hole drill programme was accomplished in 2006, testing the mineralisation below the artisanal workings.  The outcomes of this modest programme intersected excessive grade gold mineralisation starting from 3 to 60g/t gold at a median true width of between 0.2 to 0.8 metres. 

Use the hyperlink under to entry Determine 2 – map displaying expanded Jardim do Ouro tenement holdings together with new tenements acquired –

 https://bit.ly/3oEUCT4

“A 3rd rig has lately commenced drilling strike extensions past the mine limits of the Palito orebody.

“Regional exploration has additionally been restarted, with geochemical and geophysical works specializing in Calico and Juca prospects to the south of Palito.  

“I sit up for updating the market with all these latest exploration actions within the subsequent weeks.     

Use the hyperlink under to entry Determine 3 – Regional plan displaying Jardim do Ouro tenement and contours of copper and gold soil anomalies recognized by geochemical sampling –

https://bit.ly/3oVG9Cc

“Lastly, the allowing of Coringa acquired a major increase in the course of the fourth quarter with the much-anticipated award of the Licença Prévia which was formally issued by the state environmental company (“SEMAS”) on 8 October 2020.  Progress is now persevering with as we work with our environmental consultants and authorized counsel to safe the Set up License (LI), which is the allow required to start building.  We’re happy to report that the Federal Company for Indigenous Communities FUNAI have confirmed their full help for the venture and simply earlier than the yr finish, the Federal Company for Land Use, INCRA, entered into ultimate discussions to formally agree the change of land use to mineral exploitation.  We are actually due to this fact very optimistic we might be able to start out up the event of Coringa later this yr.  

“In the course of the quarter, the Firm has settled an additional US$3.0 million of the remaining buy consideration for Coringa and with an additional US$1.0 million paid on 1 January 2020, the remaining portion of the unique acquisition value nonetheless to be paid is US$4.5 million plus curiosity, so I anticipate that we are going to have settled this legal responsibility in full in the course of the second quarter of 2021.  We have now not drawn down any additional cash below the convertible mortgage preparations with Greenstone in the course of the quarter and on the present time the entire worth of the convertible mortgage excellent stays at US$2.0 million. 

“The ultimate cargo of focus for the yr, and the second cargo for the quarter, passed off within the final days of the December, and the preliminary proceeds of US$1.5 million from this sale have been acquired within the first days of January 2021.  Together with this receipt, the money place on the finish of December on a like for like foundation was US$8.1 million.  Gross sales of bodily gold in the course of the third quarter have been roughly 1,000 ounces better than manufacturing ranges reflecting regular inventory actions and so it was all the time anticipated that this may have an effect on the extent of gold bodily offered within the fourth quarter with a consequent influence on money.  As well as, to restarting exploration exercise within the interval with the extra prices this entails in comparison with prior quarters, the fourth quarter is the interval when 13^th wage funds are made, creating an extra name on money sources.”

Manufacturing Outcomes

Whole manufacturing for the ultimate quarter of 2020 was 7,254 ounces of gold, generated from the processing of 43,440 tonnes of ore with an total common grade of 5.27 g/t of gold. This processed ore was sourced from exhausting rock mined ore from the Palito and Sao Chico orebodies, supplemented by the processing of 9,092 tonnes of floor stockpiled flotation tailings grading roughly 3.0 g/t gold.  Mined tonnage for the quarter totalled 46,275 tonnes with a grade of 5.24 g/t of gold.  As reported final quarter, the decrease mine and processed grades have been a mix of fewer faces underground, producing decrease volumes.  The fourth quarter did nevertheless see processed grades enhance by 9% in contrast with the third quarter.  Whole manufacturing for the yr was 32,003 ounces of gold.

On 31 December 2020, there have been coarse ore shares of roughly 3,800 tonnes of ore with a median grade of 4.2 g/t of gold, and an estimated stockpile of ~4,500 moist tonnes of flotation tails with an estimated common grade of 1.50 g/t of gold. These stockpiles proceed to be consumed slowly and used as a ‘top-up’ to ROM ore to maintain the plant full.  The stockpile of flotation tailings is adequate to proceed to course of this materials at present charges for the early a part of 2021.  

A complete of three,353 metres of horizontal improvement has been accomplished in the course of the quarter, of which 1,510 metres was ore improvement.  The stability is the ramp, cross cuts and stope preparation improvement. 

2021 Manufacturing Steerage

As mentioned above, the influence of CV-19 pandemic has resulted in decreased ranges of manufacturing throughout 2020 in contrast with the initially forecast ranges.  While the numbers of personnel at website have returned to pre-pandemic ranges, as beforehand reported mining actions have been simplified in the course of the second and third quarters to replicate the decrease numbers of employees in a position to be at website which has decreased the variety of faces which are lively at each deposits.  Extra crews are being recruited to supply a short-term increase to mining exercise and recuperate the optionality that has beforehand existed, however it could be six months earlier than the advantages begin to absolutely movement by into manufacturing.  With this background the Firm anticipates that manufacturing for 2021 from the present Palito Advanced operations might be between 33,000 and 36,000 ounces with manufacturing in 2022 then rising to roughly 45,000 ounces. 

This announcement is inside data for the needs of Article 7 of Regulation 596/2014.

The one who organized for the discharge of this announcement on behalf of the Firm was Clive Line, Director.

Enquiries:

Copies of this announcement can be found from the Firm’s web site at www.serabigold.com.

Neither the Toronto Inventory Alternate, nor another securities regulatory authority, has authorised or disapproved of the contents of this announcement.

GLOSSARY OF TERMS

The next is a glossary of technical phrases:

Assay Outcomes
The assay outcomes reported within the desk inside this launch are these offered by the Firm’s personal on-site laboratory amenities at Palito and haven’t been independently verified.  Serabi carefully displays the efficiency of its personal facility in opposition to outcomes from unbiased laboratory evaluation for high quality management objective.  As a matter of regular apply the Firm sends duplicate samples derived from a wide range of the Firm’s actions to accredited laboratory amenities for unbiased verification. Based mostly on the outcomes of this work, the Firm’s administration are happy that the Firm’s personal facility reveals good correlation with unbiased laboratory amenities. The Firm would anticipate that within the preparation of any future unbiased Reserve/Useful resource assertion undertaken in compliance with a recognised normal, the unbiased authors of such an announcement wouldn’t use Palito assay outcomes however solely use assay outcomes reported by an appropriately certificated laboratory.

Certified Individuals Assertion
The scientific and technical data contained inside this announcement has been reviewed and authorised by Michael Hodgson, a Director of the Firm. Mr Hodgson is an Financial Geologist by coaching with over 26 years’ expertise within the mining trade. He holds a BSc (Hons) Geology, College of London, a MSc Mining Geology, College of Leicester and is a Fellow of the Institute of Supplies, Minerals and Mining and a Chartered Engineer of the Engineering Council of UK, recognising him as each a Certified Individual for the needs of Canadian Nationwide Instrument 43-101 and by the AIM Steerage Observe on Mining and Oil & Gasoline Corporations dated June 2009.

Ahead Trying Statements
Sure statements on this announcement are, or could also be deemed to be, ahead wanting statements. Ahead wanting statements are identified by their use of phrases and phrases equivalent to ‘‘consider’’, ‘‘might’’, “ought to” ‘‘envisage’’, ‘‘estimate’’, ‘‘intend’’, ‘‘could’’, ‘‘plan’’, ‘‘will’’ or the destructive of these, variations or comparable expressions, together with references to assumptions. These ahead wanting statements are usually not based mostly on historic details however reasonably on the Administrators’ present expectations and assumptions concerning the Firm’s future development, outcomes of operations, efficiency, future capital and different expenditures (together with the quantity, nature and sources of funding thereof), aggressive benefits, enterprise prospects and alternatives. Such ahead wanting statements reflect the Administrators’ present beliefs and assumptions and are based mostly on data at present accessible to the Administrators. Plenty of elements might trigger precise outcomes to vary materially from the outcomes mentioned within the ahead wanting statements together with dangers related to vulnerability to normal financial and enterprise circumstances, competitors, environmental and different regulatory adjustments, actions by governmental authorities, the supply of capital markets, reliance on key personnel, uninsured and underinsured losses and different elements, a lot of that are past the management of the Firm. Though any forward-looking statements contained on this announcement are based mostly upon what the Administrators consider to be affordable assumptions, the Firm can’t guarantee traders that precise outcomes might be per such ahead wanting statements.

ENDS

• Q4 2020 Operational Report