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Santo Domingo
The Santo Domingo Project is located 50 kilometres west of Codelco's El Salvador copper mine, and 130 kilometres north northeast of Copiapo in Region III, Chile, near the town of Diego de Almagro. Mining for copper, gold, and iron has been ongoing in this area since early in the 19th century. The project area has a relatively long history of small-scale mining and prospecting.
Mining Method: open pit
Commodity: Gold, Copper, Iron
Estimated Mine Life(yrs): 18
Reserves/Resources: 418Mt at 0.04g/t gold and 0.32% copper
Products: 144Mlbs copper, 4.1Mt iron, 15koz gold per year
Owner: Capstone Mining Corp. (100%)
country/region: CHILE
Continent: South America
| La Colosa Development Mine
The La Colosa Project is located 150 km west of Colombia's capital city, Bogota, in the department of Tolima.Gold was the metal of choice of local Pre-Columbian populations but there were no prior mining or exploration activities in the project area before 2006 when AngloGold Ashanti's field team discovered the La Colosa gold deposit.
Mining Method: new project
Commodity: Gold
Estimated Mine Life(yrs): 20
Reserves/Resources: 468.8 Mt at 0.86 g/t gold for 12.9 Moz gold (2008)
Products: 700,000 oz per year
Owner: AngloGold Ashanti Ltd.
country/region: COLOMBIA
Continent: South America
| Fruta del Norte
Fruta Del Norte gold deposit is located within a 95,000 ha land package in the Cordillera del Condor mountain range of Zamora-Chinchipe province of southeastern Ecuador. Placer and some bedrock gold have been exploited in the area by artisanal miners and that fact attracted the attention of some Ecuadorian exploration companies.
Mining Method: underground
Commodity: Gold, Silver
Estimated Mine Life(yrs): 16
Reserves/Resources: 26.1 Mt at 8.07 g/t Gold & 10.9 g/t Silver
Products: 6.3 Moz Gold and 6.7 Moz Silver
Owner: Kinross Gold Corp
country/region: ECUADOR
Continent: South America
| Invicta mine
Invicta mineral property is located in the Western Pre-Cordillera of the Peruvian Andes in theHuauraProvince, Department of Lima, Central Coast of Peru in the Districts of Paccho and Leoncio Prado. The property is approximately 250 km north ofLima, and approximately 29 km east of the town of Sayan. Invicta is a gold-silver-copper hydrothermal mineral deposit. The probable mineral reserve of 7.8 million tonnes have an average grade of 2.14 g/t Au, 16.08 g/t Ag, 0.43% Cu, 0.32% Pb and 0.30% Zn.
Mining Method: Open Pit & Underground
Commodity: Gold, Silver
Estimated Mine Life(yrs): 8
Reserves/Resources: 7.8 Mt at 2.14 g/t Gold & 16.08 g/t Silver (probable reserves)
Products: 161,000 oz per year Gold (gold equivalent)
Owner: Andean American Gold Corp.
country/region: PERU
Continent: South America
| lagunas norte gold mine
Lagunas Norte is located on the Alto Chicama property in north-central Peru, 140 kilometres east of the coastal city of Trujillo, and 175 kilometres north of Barricka€?s Pierina mine. The property lies on the western flank of the Peruvian Andes and is at an elevation of 4,000 to 4,260 metres above sea level.Lagunas Norte is Barricka€?s lowest cost operation and in 2010, the mine produced 808,000 ounces of gold at total cash costs of $182 per ounce.
Mining Method: open pit
Commodity: Gold
Reserves/Resources: Gold - 6.6m oz gold (Dec 31, 2010, proven and probable reserves)
Products: Gold - 808k oz in 2010
Owner: Barrick Gold Corp.
country/region: PERU
Continent: South America
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