{"id":1163055,"date":"2020-01-31T15:53:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T21:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1012674"},"modified":"2020-01-31T15:53:02","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T21:53:02","slug":"centerra-pours-first-gold-at-oksut-mine-stock-jumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1163055","title":{"rendered":"Centerra pours first gold at \u00d6ks\u00fct mine, stock jumps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Centerra Gold (TSX: CG) <a aria-label=\"announced Friday (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/centerragold\/news\/January2020\/BzguiIk3n7h8sBP4aext.pdf\" >announced Friday<\/a> that the \u00d6ks\u00fct mine in Turkey has achieved its first gold pour on schedule and ahead of budget. The gold pour occurred in the same week that the mine celebrated a safety milestone of two million work hours lost time injury free (LTIF).<\/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>\u00d6ks\u00fct now becomes the company&#8217;s third operating mine and its third source of gold production going forward, Centerra CEO Scott Perry stated in a media release.<\/p>\n<p>The \u00d6ks\u00fct project is a conventional truck and shovel open-pit heap leach mining operation. About 28.2 million tonnes of ore at a grade of 1.3 g\/t gold containing a total of 1.2 million ounces of gold are expected to be mined and stacked over a mine life of eight years.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to \u00d6ks\u00fct, Centerra also owns the Mount Milligan mine in British Columbia, Canada, and the Kumtor mine in Kyrgyzstan, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/centerra-receives-permits-to-re-start-mining-at-kumtor\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"recently approved for restart (opens in a new tab)\">recently approved for restart<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of Centerra Gold were up 6.3% at market open close Friday. The Canadian-based gold producer has a market capitalization of approximately C$3.11 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shares of Centerra Gold were up 6.3% at market open close Friday.<\/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":"","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":[949,369,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163055"}],"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=1163055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163063,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163055\/revisions\/1163063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1163055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1163055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1163055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}