Wilton reports first gold pour from Ciemas project
Thursday, August 17 2017 - 04:19 AM WIB
SGX-listed Wilton Resources Corporation Limited said that the first gold pour from the initial trial batch of leaching and processing at its Ciemas gold project in Indonesia?s West Java Province which commenced in June 2017 has produced 936 grams of gold with 99.0 percent purity.
The company said in a statement issued last week that the 500-ton trial batch of ore had an average feed grade of approximately 2.9 grams per ton and the recovery rate was approximately 65 percent.
?As further optimization remains ongoing, the second trial batch of leaching will remain at 500 tons of oxide ore before the eventual utilization of the full leaching pool capacity of 1,000 tons of oxide ore in subsequent cycles. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the second gold pour from this trial phase is expected to be produced in September 2017,? Wilton said in the statement.
Mining of ore to be processed via leaching is on-going, it added. The company said it is also constructing a second leaching pool, which is expected to be completed during September 2017. Additional leaching pools will be constructed in stages to increase production capacity over time.
Editing by Reiner Simanjuntak