EL SAUZAL

MINING

The El Sauzal Mine is a conventional open pit operation moving nearly 7.4 million tonnes per year of material.  Ore is mined at an annual rate of 2.1 million tonnes.  Ore is fed through a primary jaw crusher prior to being introduced into a semi-autogeneous grinding mill/ball mill circuit.  Gold recovery is a modified CIL circuit.  El Sauzal use a detox process and filtering of the tailings for final deposition.