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NWM Mining Corporation is a Canadian mineral exploration company focused on the development of the Lluvia de Oro / La Jojoba gold mine located in Sonora in North West Mexico
Message: NR: Lluvia de Oro/La Jojoba Update
Lluvia de Oro/La Jojoba Update
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Another milestone has been reached in the development plan for Lluvia de Oro: the mining crew and contractors have begun the process of loading ore on the Lluvia leach pad! The initial lay-down is a buttress of ore in the leach pad Area 789. The buttress (see Photo 1) is a safety measure to improve the long-term stability of the rock material that will be placed on the leach pad over the next several years.
Ore stacking plan for the period October through December 2010. The image was prepared from a digital elevation model of the present land surface and shows the solution ponds (lower-left corner) and new pad construction area SW-1 and SW-2 (lower-right)
The orange area shown above is the initial buttress of ore material from Creston Pit. The blue area is the initial 60,000 tonnes of new ore that will be placed under leach. The red area is the balance of 255,000 tonnes to be leached of gold during the initial 12-month phase of mining. The photo below shows the placement of the buttress ore.
Loading of the buttress of new ore on the leach pad has begun. The ore is currently being placed over a series of special drains constructed to facilitate conveyance of solutions to the recovery ponds, which are located just off to the right (west) of this photo. View is to the SW
Construction of the new SW-1 and SW-2 leach pad area will continue concurrently with the loading of the Area 789 leach pad. SW-1 should be completed before the initial ore placement is concluded, giving the mining crew a selection of areas to put new ore. Completion of the SW-2 pad will follow in short order.
A current view of new pad construction at SW-1 and SW-2. The ADR (gold-silver recovery) plant can be seen in the center background and the top of the SART plant (copper recovery) can be seen right-center of the photo. This view is looking to the north
Ore for the new pad loading is coming from the southeast end of Creston Pit. This area (Photo 4) was blasted and made ready for mining in the past month.
The area of new ore being prepared for blasting in the southeast portion of Creston Pit. This photo shows the blasting crew loading the drill holes with explosives
On the exploration and resource definition side of things, the drilling and geology crew have been busy with the reverse-circulation drilling and core drilling. Both programs continue to search for new ore and to redefine existing mineral resources to higher resource categories. Photographs of this on-going work will be presented in the next bi-weekly report.
Prepared by Rodney A. Blakestad, C.P.G., Qualified Person
Please e-mail NWM Mining or telephone us at 416-364-6799 for more information.
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