By Henry Lazenby
Mining Weekly
TORONTO — TSX- and Aim-listed Patagonia Gold has migrated to the rank of a junior producer as it starts gold production at its Lomada de Leiva project, in the province of Santa Cruz, Argentina.
The company said on Monday it had poured the first 23.02 kg doré bar after commissioning the gold room production facility, located at its La Bajada property.
The final payable gold content would be established by assay and refining by Johnson Matthey, in Canada.
A total of 1040 kg of loaded carbon from the Lomada heap-leach trial, with a grade of 16 800 g/t gold was eluted, using the recently completed elution plant, before electrowinning and smelting.