Pacgold receive Approval to restart Heap Leach irrigation
Pacgold (ASX: PGO)
Announced rapid progress towards recommencing gold production at the recently acquired White Dam Gold Project, located in South Australia, approximately 80km west of Broken Hill.
The Company has now received approval to utilise the recently relined pls pond and can now recommence lixiviation of the existing heap leach ore.
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Aerial view of the White Dam Project – Courtesy of Pacgold Ltd.
| Pacgold | ASX : PGO | |
| Stage | Exploration | |
| Metals | Gold | |
| Market cap | A$28.5m @A$ 6.7c | |
| Location | Queensland, Australia | |
| Website | www.pacgold.com.au/ |
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Pacgold Receive approval to restart Heap Leach irrigation at White Dam
Irrigation of Northern pad area to commence before year end
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Pacgold Limited (ASX: PGO) (‘Pacgold’ or ‘the Company’) is pleased to announce rapid progress towards recommencing gold production at the recently acquired White Dam Gold Project (‘the Project’), located in South Australia, approximately 80km west of Broken Hill.
The Company has now received approval to utilise the recently relined pls pond and can now recommence lixiviation of the existing heap leach ore, turnover of the northern edge of the pad has commenced and irrigation is scheduled to recommence by year end.
In addition, drilling is advancing well with 2,700m of RC drilling at the Vertigo pit already completed with initial assay results expected post the Christmas break in mid-January. The initial focus is at the Vertigo pit, with 7,000m aiming to upgrade Inferred Resources to the Indicated category enabling an updated MRE and supporting the production restart.
The full drilling program is expected to take approximately 3 months to complete.
HIGHLIGHTS
KEY MILESTONE DEM APPROVAL – Pacgold has now received approval to commence utilisation of the recently relined Pregnant Leach Solution (PLS) pond and commence irrigation of the heap leach dump. Irrigation and dripper lines are being installed on recently turned over run of mine material on the northern side of the pad this week and full irrigation is scheduled to begin in the last week in December
PAD TURNOVER ADVANCING – A large excavator has been mobilised to site and
commenced the turnover of approximately 500,000T of original run of mine (ROM) ore on the first lift of the heap leach dump on the northern side of the pad, turnover of this material aerates, breaks up and exposes ore to irrigation fluid which previously may not have been fully leached, this is a very low cost first pass trial to evaluate the potential for additional recovery of existing stacked ore.
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Pacgold’s Managing Director, Matthew Boyes, commented:
“Another key milestone achieved in returning White Dam to full production with the approval to utilise our newly relined PLS pond, irrigation of the pad can now recommence at full scale.
“Approximately 500kt of ore on the northern edge of the pad will be turned over and aerated as a trial to give PGO an indication of the potential quantities of extractable gold that remain in the pad overall.
“We are delivering on all fronts at White Dam and I am extremely happy with the progress to date, we have an excellent team on site who are very motivated to see production commence again and bring life back to the mine once again, 2026 is shaping up to be an outstanding year for PGO on many fronts from mine production through to
exploration in northern Queensland and South Australia.”
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