{"id":1179355,"date":"2020-04-20T17:02:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T22:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1021031"},"modified":"2020-04-20T17:02:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T22:02:59","slug":"harte-reports-record-quarterly-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1179355","title":{"rendered":"Harte reports record quarterly production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first quarter of this year,\u00a0Harte Gold\u00a0(TSE: HRT) reported it has produced 8,597 ounces at its Sugar Zone mine in Ontario.<\/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>This is a record for the company and a 7% increase over the 8,017 ounces generated in the fourth quarter of 2019. <\/p>\n<p>This growth appears driven by higher grades milled \u2013 head grades averaged 5.5 g\/t gold in the first quarter, which is an improvement over the 5.03 g\/t and 3.61 g\/t average grades milled in the fourth and third quarters of last year, respectively.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignright\">\n<blockquote>\n<p> At the end of March, mine operations were suspended as a precaution due to covid-19, Harte is reviewing the situation with no decision on a potential restart  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>At the end of March, mine operations were suspended as a precaution due to covid-19, Harte is reviewing the situation with no decision on a potential restart at this time. <\/p>\n<p>Mine planning work is underway ahead of a re-start \u2013 additional details on production guidance will be released once this is complete, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, it appears that development and backfill rates at the mine are ahead of the Harte&#8217;s targets with paste plant filters for dry stack tailings now operational. <\/p>\n<p>Harte expects to access higher grade later this year to further augment production.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very encouraged by the continued improvements in leading indicators that demonstrate a platform for sustainable growth and support fundamental changes instilled at the Sugar Zone mine,\u201d Sam Coetzer, president and CEO, said in a release. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the next several weeks, the team will be focused on accomplishing several objectives, operationally and financially, that will support a smooth restart of the mine and continued performance throughout the remainder of this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 793-sq.-km Sugar Zone mine site in White River entered commercial production last year. Most recent guidance from the company was for 42,000 oz. to 48,000 oz. of gold this year.<\/p>\n<p><em>(This article first appeared in the&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadianminingjournal.com\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Canadian Mining<br \/>\nJournal<\/em><\/a><em>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company registered 7% increase over the 8,017 ounces generated in the fourth quarter of 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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":[369],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179355"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1179355"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179358,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179355\/revisions\/1179358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1179355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1179355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1179355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}