Alacer on track to meet full-year guidance after strong first quarter

TSX- and ASX-listed Alacer Gold, which operates the Çöpler gold mine, in Turkey, produced 89 354 oz of gold in the quarter ended March 31, keeping it on track to meet its full-year guidance of producing 320 000 oz to 380 000 oz of gold. The company on Tuesday reported that the ramp-up of the sulphide plant at the mine had continued throughout the first quarter, with the plant having delivered 36 933 oz of gold from sulphide ore for the quarter.