guidance for Tucano mine, stock down" Following the geotechnical incident that suspended mining at Tucanos Urucum Central South pit in October, production was accelerated from the Urucum North and Urucum South pits, Great Panther said in a media release.
Mining from these two pits has since encountered lower than expected productivities due to higher than normal rainfall, increased pit congestion due to more constrained mining geometries, and smaller blasts needed to separate ore and waste to reduce dilution. These collective factors paired with ore variability resulted in lower than expected production, the miner said in the statement.
The reduction in gold production guidance is also expected to increase cash cost and AISC, which are now expected to come in at the high end of the range of the miners existing cash cost and AISC guidance for 2019, and are not expected to exceed more than 5% of the top end of the ranges.
The increase in unit costs due to the lower production ounces is somewhat mitigated by the positive impacts of lower throughput costs and a weaker than budgeted Brazilian real currency, in addition to lower than planned capex in the case of AISC, Great Panther said.
At market close Friday, Great Panthers stock was down 6.5% on the NYSE, and then rose 1.3% during after-hours trading. The days trades reached over two million shares, double the average daily volume. The company has a $135 million market capitalization.
Veröffentlicht am 29.11.19 |