{"id":1132014,"date":"2019-08-12T08:15:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T13:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=999047"},"modified":"2019-08-12T08:15:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T13:15:37","slug":"fruta-del-nortes-first-gold-pour-expected-for-q4-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1132014","title":{"rendered":"Fruta del Norte\u2019s first gold pour expected for Q4-2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When reporting its operational and financial results for the second quarter of 2019, Lundin Gold (TSX:LUG) announced that it expects first gold production from the Fruta del Norte project in Ecuador to be delivered in the fourth quarter of this year.\u00a0<\/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>The Canadian miner also said that, given that the development of the project remains on track and on budget with 78% already completed, it plans to achieve commercial production in the second quarter of 2020.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignright\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>Lundin reports that 92% of the total projected capital expenditure for Fruta del Norte has been committed<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>During the first six months of 2019, Lundin reached peak construction and by mid-June, the company had <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"begun mining of the first production stope (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/lundin-gold-begins-mining-of-first-production-stope-at-fruta-del-norte\/\" >begun mining the first production stope<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When the sixth month of the year ended, 8 kilometres of underground mine development had been completed, which means that the process is also ahead of projections.<\/p>\n<p>The Vancouver-based firm also said that at the end of the last quarter, earthworks was 87% complete, concrete 96%, steel 83%, mechanical 73%, piping 59%, electrical 82% and instrumentation 65%. Meanwhile, the construction of the process plant is on track for the commissioning of systems beginning in the third quarter of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Earthworks at the site\u2019s tailings storage facility are 72% done and dam liner installation commencing during the quarter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFruta del Norte continues to progress on schedule and on budget. Contractor underground development is nearing completion with owner&#8217;s crews ramping up, and production stopes are now being mined,\u201d Ron Hochstein, the company\u2019s president and CEO, said in a media statement. \u201cDuring the third quarter, we expect the three major surface projects &#8211; process plant, powerline and tailings storage facility \u2013 to be completed and undergo commissioning.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The development of the Ecuadorian project remains on track and on budget with 78% already completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"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":[2648,369],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132014"}],"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\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1132014"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1132065,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132014\/revisions\/1132065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1132014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1132014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1132014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}