{"id":1151907,"date":"2019-11-26T14:44:46","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T20:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1007716"},"modified":"2019-11-26T14:44:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T20:44:46","slug":"teranga-declares-commercial-production-at-wahgnion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1151907","title":{"rendered":"Teranga declares commercial production at Wahgnion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teranga Gold (TSX: TGZ) <a href=\"https:\/\/s2.q4cdn.com\/949220588\/files\/doc_news\/2019\/11\/11-25-19-Wahgnion-Achieves-Commercial-Production-PR-FINAL.pdf\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"has declared commercial production (opens in a new tab)\">has declared commercial production<\/a> at its second mine, Wahgnion, located 510 km southwest of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.<\/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>After <a aria-label=\"achieving first pour (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/canadas-teranga-kicks-off-production-at-burkina-faso-gold-mine\/\" >achieving first pour<\/a> ahead of schedule in late August, the new mine is expected to achieve the upper end of its 2019 production guidance of 30,000-40,000 oz.<br \/><ins><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miningweekly.com\/adcentre\/rv\/mw\/www\/delivery\/ck.php?oaparams=2__bannerid=2663__zoneid=254__cb=76d1707b47__oadest=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.menar.com%2F\" ><\/a><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Wahgnion plant is running at or above nameplate capacity, recovery rates are well above 90%, and costs are tracking in line with our 2019 guidance,\u201d COO Paul Chawrun stated in a press release. The company has a consolidated production guidance of 245,000-270,000 oz gold for 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that we have achieved commercial production, in the new year our attention will turn to conducting a reserve development program focused on optimizing the mine plan and adding reserves to extend the current 13-year mine life,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Wahgnion mine is forecast to produce 132,000 oz\/year at an all-in sustaining cost of $761\/oz in the first five years. It is Teranga\u2019s second gold operation after the Sabodala mine in Senegal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new mine is expected to achieve the upper end of its 2019 production guidance of 30,000-40,000 oz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miningcom","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151907","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\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1151907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151931,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151907\/revisions\/1151931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1151907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1151907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1151907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}