A scoping study to evaluate the technical and commercial merits of mining deeper-level mineralisation at West African gold explorer and developer Azumah Resources’ Bepkong deposit, has indicated that an underground mining operation could provide a material boost to the openpit Wa gold project, in Ghana. The scoping study found that deeper-level mineralisaton could provide the project with a production target of an additional 154 000 oz of contained gold, thereby adding about $32-million in cash flow at a gold price of $1 300/oz.
