{"id":1127779,"date":"2019-07-19T13:19:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T18:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=997121"},"modified":"2019-07-19T13:19:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T18:19:09","slug":"yamana-touts-pre-feasibility-results-for-agua-rica-copper-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1127779","title":{"rendered":"Yamana touts pre-feasibility results for Agua Rica copper project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian\u00a0Yamana Gold\u00a0(TSX:YRI) (NYSE:AUY)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yamana.com\/English\/investors\/news\/news-details\/2019\/Yamana-Gold-Announces-a-Positive-Pre-Feasibility-Study-With-an-Impressive-and-Increased-NPV-of-19-Billion-and-an-Increased-After-Tax-IRR-of-197-for-the-Long-Life-Integrated-Agua-Rica-Copper-Gold-Project\/default.aspx\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">published on Friday<\/a> the results of a pre-feasibility study for its Agua Rica copper-gold project in Argentina, which shows higher reserves and an initial mine of 28 years.<\/p>\n<div class='d-flex justify-content-center'>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0'><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0');});<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Agua Rica&#8217;s proven and probable copper mineral reserves increased<br \/>\nby 21% since the end of 2018 to 11.8 billion pounds, while gold mineral<br \/>\nreserves gained 12% to 7.4 million ounces.<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto-based miner said the initial capital cost, estimated in $2.4 billion, realizes significant synergies from using infrastructure and facilities of Alumbrera, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/yamana-glencore-goldcorp-ink-agreement-integrate-argentina-mines\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">joint venture with Glencore and Newmont Goldcorp<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The project, located in the northwestern Argentinean<br \/>\nprovince of Catamarca, is forecast to generate 533 million pounds of<br \/>\ncopper-equivalent in its first 10 years of operation. A feasibility study is<br \/>\nexpected to be completed by 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proven and probable copper mineral reserves increased by 21% since the end of 2018 to 11.8 billion pounds, while gold mineral reserves gained 12% to 7.4 million ounces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,4],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1127779"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1127838,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127779\/revisions\/1127838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1127779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1127779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1127779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}