{"id":1141861,"date":"2019-10-03T05:57:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T10:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1003509"},"modified":"2019-10-03T05:57:10","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T10:57:10","slug":"pit-wall-collapses-at-avesoros-new-liberty-mine-in-liberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1141861","title":{"rendered":"Pit wall collapses at Avesoro\u2019s New Liberty mine in Liberia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Avesoro Resources (TSX, AIM: ASO) <a href=\"https:\/\/avesoro.com\/2019\/10\/03\/pit-wall-failure-at-new-liberty\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">said Thursday<\/a> that a pit wall collapse and ramp failure at its New Liberty gold mine in Liberia has forced the company to halt production and will continue to affect output \u201cfor some time\u201d.<\/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 accident, which took place on Oct. 1 at the Kinjor pit,<br \/>\nleft no fatalities or damage equipment, Avesoro said. Mining activities have<br \/>\nbeen suspended at that section of the mine and an assessment of the impact is<br \/>\nunderway. <\/p>\n<p>The West Africa-focused gold miner noted that operations at the Marvoe and Kinjor-South pits continued as usual.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignright\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>The failure at New Liberty is the latest operational difficulty for the miner, which has also reported issues at its Youga gold mine in Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The failure at New Liberty is the latest operational<br \/>\ndifficulty for the miner, which has also reported issues at its Youga gold mine<br \/>\nin Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n<p>In August, the company reported that an armed group of<br \/>\nartisanal miners broke into the facility to steal ore. One of the intruders was<br \/>\nkilled by a security guard and a number of heavy mining equipment, haul trucks<br \/>\nand excavators were vandalized beyond repair.<\/p>\n<p>Government security forces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/avesoro-resumes-operations-at-burkina-faso-gold-mine-after-security-breach\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">currently remain on at the Youga mine<\/a> in order to protect the company\u2019s assets.<\/p>\n<p>Avesoro, which has a track record of not only successfully<br \/>\nbuilding low cost mining operations, but also turning around non-performing<br \/>\nassets, has experienced rapid growth to date.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s plan is to become a larger 500,000-ounces gold<br \/>\nproducer in the next two to three years, and it intends to achieve this goal<br \/>\nthrough a combination of organic and inorganic growth \u2014 mergers or<br \/>\nacquisitions.<\/p>\n<p>The junior, however, recently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/avesoro-resumes-operations-at-burkina-fasos-gold-mine\/6251\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">had to cut annual output guidance<\/a>\u00a0for both the Youga and New Liberty mines by 30,000 ounces because of operational challenges experienced earlier in the year. As a result, Avesoro\u2019s gold production and cost guidance for the full year 2019 remains under review. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Production volumes will be reduced &#8220;for some time&#8221;, the company said.<\/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":"default","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":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","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-opacity":"","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-opacity":"","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-opacity":"","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-opacity":"","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-opacity":"","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-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,4,2857],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miningcom","category-news","category-suppliers-equipment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=1141861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1141883,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141861\/revisions\/1141883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1141861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1141861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1141861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}