Technical Presentation and Paper

RNS Number : 5755Z

Anglo Asian Mining PLC

03 September 2018

 

Anglo Asian Mining plc / Ticker: AAZ / Index: AIM / Sector: Mining

3 September 2018

Anglo Asian Mining plc

Technical Presentation to the "Extraction 2018" Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Anglo Asian Mining plc ("Anglo Asian" or "the Company"), the AIM listed gold, copper and silver producer, announces that John Monhemius (Independent non-executive director of the Company) presented a technical paper (the "Paper") to the "Extraction 2018" conference in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on 27 August 2018. "Extraction 2018" is a conference jointly organised by The Metallurgy and Materials Society of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum, the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration, and The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.

The title of the Paper was "The Industrial Application of Ultrafiltration and Reverse Osmosis for the Recovery of Copper, Silver and Cyanide from Gold Leach Liquors". The Paper was written by John Monhemius and Farhang Hedjazi. Farhang Hedjazi is the Technical Director of the Company.

The Paper can be accessed via the following link: 

http://www.angloasianmining.com/media/pdf/UF-RO%20Paper%20Final%20revised_canada.pdf

The Paper was also accompanied by a presentation of the same title which can be accessed via the following link:

http://www.angloasianmining.com/media/pdf/AJM%20Presentation_canada.pdf

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For further information please visit www.angloasianmining.com or contact:

Reza Vaziri	Anglo Asian Mining plc	Tel: [phone]
Bill Morgan	Anglo Asian Mining plc	Tel: [phone]
Stephen Westhead	Anglo Asian Mining plc	Tel: [phone]
Ewan Leggat	SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP Nominated Adviser and Broker	Tel: [phone]
Soltan Tagiev	SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP	Tel + 44 (0) 20 3470 0470
Susie Geliher	St Brides Partners Ltd	Tel: [phone]
Lottie Wadham	St Brides Partners Ltd	Tel: [phone]

Notes:

Anglo Asian Mining plc (AIM:AAZ) is a gold, copper and silver producer in Central Asia with a broad portfolio of production and exploration assets in Azerbaijan. The Company has a 1,962 square kilometre portfolio, assembled from analysis of historic Soviet geological data and held under a Production Sharing Agreement modelled on the Azeri oil industry.

The Company's main operating location is the Gedabek contract area ("Gedabek") which is a 300 square kilometer area in the lesser Caucasus mountains in western Azerbaijan. The Company developed Azerbaijan's first operating gold/copper/silver mine at Gedabek which commenced gold production in May 2009.  Mining at Gedabek was initially from its main open pit which is an open cast mine with a series of interconnected pits. The Company also operates the high grade Gadir underground mine which is co-located at the Gedabek site, In September 2017, production commenced at the Ugur open pit mine, a recently discovered gold ore deposit at Gedabek. The Company has a second underground mine, Gosha, which is 50 kilometres from Gedabek. Ore mined at Gosha is processed at Anglo Asian's Gedabek plant.

The Company produced 71,461 gold equivalent ounces ('GEOs') for the year ended 31 December 2017.  Gedabek is a polymetallic ore deposit that has gold together with significant concentrations of copper in the main open pit mine, and an oxide gold-rich zone at Ugur. The Company therefore employs a series of flexible processing routes to optimise metal recoveries and efficiencies.  The Company produces gold doré through agitation and heap leaching operations, copper concentrate from its Sulphidisation, Acidification, Recycling, and Thickening (SART) plant and also a copper and precious metal concentrate from its flotation plant, which is processing tailings from the agitation leach plant. A second dedicated crusher line has recently been commissioned and is now in operation for the flotation plant to enable it to operate independently of the agitation leaching plant.

The Company has forecast production for FY 2018 of between 78,000 to 84,000 GEOs an increase for the mid-point of this guidance of over 13 per cent. compared to FY 2017 production of 71,461 GEOs.

Anglo Asian is also actively seeking to exploit its first mover advantage in Azerbaijan to identify additional projects, as well as looking for other properties in order to fulfil its expansion ambitions and become a mid-tier gold and copper metal production company.

 

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