{"id":1162944,"date":"2020-01-31T08:10:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T14:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1012512"},"modified":"2020-01-31T08:10:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T14:10:48","slug":"minera-alamos-acquires-equipment-to-ramp-up-mexican-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1162944","title":{"rendered":"Minera Alamos acquires equipment to ramp up Mexican operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minera Alamos (TSXV: MAI) is already planning for the possible growth of its Santana gold project in northwestern Mexico.<\/p>\n<div class='d-flex justify-content-center d-xs-block d-sm-block d-md-none'>\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>In a press release, the company announced that it has entered into a $1.2-million equipment purchase agreement with Mako Mining, Marlin Gold Mining and Oro Gold de Mexico to acquire a complete crushing, screening and agglomeration system.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignright\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>Located in Sonora, Santana is an open-pit, heap-leach development permitted project with test mining and processing recently completed<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;This agreement leverages the financial flexibility provided by our relationship with Osisko Gold Royalties to take advantage of a unique opportunity that presented itself and that will significantly reduce longer-term capital and operating costs for the development of the Santana project,&#8221; Darren Koningen, Minera Alamos CEO, said in a media statement. &#8220;The acquisition for this excellent collection of equipment is a small fraction of the original purchase cost and underscores our philosophy of finding innovative ways to build our projects with some of the industry&#8217;s lowest capital intensity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 300-tph crushing system was originally installed at Mako&#8217;s La Trinidad gold heap leach operation and was in commercial service for a relatively short period until it was shut down in 2019. <\/p>\n<p>Alamos said it is planning to start initial operations at Santana using contractor portable crushing equipment until optimal crushing strategies are better understood. <\/p>\n<p>In the miner&#8217;s view, the new system will allow it to transition to a larger capacity crushing operation capable of accommodating future plans for significant increases in the production profile at Santana as the overall scale of the project increases through ongoing exploration. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Such a move towards an in-house (non-contractor) crushing system will be significantly less costly as a result of the purchase of the system and is expected to yield significant savings in crushing unit costs,&#8221; 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