Anaconda Mining (TSX: ANX; US-OTC: ANXGF) is working on a feasibility study for its Goldboro gold project in Nova Scotia, 175 km northeast of Halifax. The company started the study in February 2019, and expects to finish it by the end of the year. The study will incorporate results from 22,000 metres of diamond drilling the company completed at Goldboro in 2017 and 2018, as well as results from an ongoing bulk sample. It will also include an updated mineral resource the company expects to table in 2019’s third quarter.
The company recently completed the mining phase of its 10,000-tonne underground bulk sample at Goldboro. It mined three stopes from belts one and two of its Boston-Richardson gold system, and intends to barge the material to its Pine Cove mill in Point Rousse, Nfld., in 2019’s second quarter for processing.
The company tabled an updated Goldboro resource estimate in October 2018 that totals 3.7 million measured and indicated tonnes grading 4.96 grams gold per tonne for 602,700 oz. gold, an 11% increase in grade and a 15% increase in ounces from December 2017.
The project also contains 2.1 million inferred tonnes at 6.63 grams gold for 453,200 oz. gold, a 56% increase in grade and a 30% increase in ounces from December 2017.
Anaconda tabled an updated preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for Goldboro in 2018 that outlined an $88 million after-tax net present value at a 5% discount rate and a 29.3% after-tax internal rate of return.
The company recently completed trade off studies that support the initial mine development scenario outlined in its PEA. It says the optimal approach at Goldboro is to use selective mining methods and process material at roughly 575 tonnes per day.
Goldcorp recently chose Anaconda to be one of three finalists at its 2019 Disrupt Mining event in Toronto during this year’s Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada convention. The company will present a new technology it collaborated with Memorial University to develop called Sustainable Mining by Drilling. Anaconda believes the technology will allow it to mine steeply dipping, narrow vein gold deposits in Newfoundland economically.
Shares of Anaconda Mining are currently trading at 28¢ with a 52-week range of 18¢ to 47¢. The company has a $33 million market capitalization.
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