- Lucrative support business to Peru’s artisanal sector (Dynacor, Mollehuaca, Vista Gold servicing the sector)
- Secured permits and land for a “part built” gold ore processing plant, 45 km from Tesoro, known as La Patona
- Procurement and supplier selection underway
- Enables retention of higher margin from mined material (25-35% increase vs tolling plant) and opportunity to secure additional certified ore supply to operate at up to 70 tpd of final output
- Smelting circuit to be capable of daily output of 7-8 kg producing gold doré bars
- Phase 1 - capable of outputting between 1.48 kg and 1.67 kg of gold in doré bars per day
- Design completed with equipment suppliers selected and prices and delivery times agreed
The image on the right shows plant ground works and concrete milling and flotation phase at La Patona (Nov-25)
Works include:
- Water borehole and pump
- Electrical works with 1.8 km 500 kV cable
- 350 tpd ore crushing unit
- 150 tpd flotation circuit
- 70 tpd lixiviation circuit; chemical and metallurgy laboratory
- Smelting circuit producing 7–8 kg doré per day
- Contract to be awarded imminently for civil works to commence in late Nov-25, covering groundworks, access and internal roads, and geomembrane liner for tailings facility
- Nativo preparing technical updates for its Environmental Management Instrument for Formalization permit (IGAFOM) under the REINFO system
- GOPP expected to become operational and commence ore processing in Q2 2026