GOLDEN, CO / ACCESSWIRE / June 5, 2020 / Golden Minerals (TSX:AUMN) (NYSE American:AUMN) Company President & Chief Executive Officer Warren Rehn spoke in detail on June 1, 2020 to Matthew Gordon, founder of U.K.-based CRUX Investor, about Golden Minerals' projects, a path toward intended 2021 production and providing longer term shareholder value.
Golden Minerals, a precious metals exploration firm currently generating revenue through the lease of its oxide mill in Mexico to Hecla Mining Company (HL), intends to begin producing at its Rodeo open pit gold project (Durango State, Mexico) in 2021 after the lease concludes with Hecla at the end of 2020. The company's goal is to use the cash generated from Rodeo to finance a potential startup for its silver-gold Velardeña Properties. Velardeña is an underground mining project that, incorporating bio-oxidation processing, has the possibility of providing medium to long-term net positive cash flow to the company and consequent value for shareholders during its currently envisioned ten-year life. Velardeña's 2020 Preliminary Economic Assessment ("PEA") shows an $86M NPV8*.
Rodeo is small but highly de-risked and, according to its 2020 PEA, is capable of providing almost US$25 million in after-tax cash flow to the company in its roughly two years of production. Pre-production costs (including capital, working capital and contingency) are extremely low at US$1.5 million since the company already owns the oxide mill that will be used to process Rodeo's gold.
Both the Rodeo and Velardeña PEAs may be found at: https://www.goldenminerals.com/projects/technical-reports/
*NPV8: Net present value of cash flow at 8% annual discount rate, in US$
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