Progress Report on Ghana Gold Operations
Goldplat plc / Ticker: GDP / Index: AIM / Sector: Mining & Exploration
16 March 2010
Goldplat plc ('Goldplat' or 'the Company')
Progress Report on Ghana Operations
Goldplat plc, the AIM quoted gold producer, has, though its Ghanaian gold
recovery business, Gold Recovery Ghana Limited ('GRG'), signed an ongoing
agreement with AngloGold Ashanti (Ghana) Limited ('AngloGold') to purchase gold
bearing materials for processing at its operations in Tema, Ghana. The Company
is confident that the gold produced from these materials will increase GRG's
overall monthly gold production figures.
GRG provides an economic method for mines to dispose of waste materials while
meeting environmental obligations. In line with this, the agreement will see
GRG acquire fine carbon and mill liners, which are by-products from the mining
process, from AngloGold's Obuasi and Iduapriem gold mining operations in Ghana,
where stockpiles of these materials have accumulated. It is anticipated that
the first load of materials are expected to be delivered to GRG by beginning of
April 2010.
Goldplat's CEO Demetri Manolis said, "Our gold recovery processing operations
both in Ghana and South Africa continue to be cash generative and profitable.
We are focussed on increasing production at GRG, so were delighted to strengthen
an existing relationship with one of the major mining companies, AngloGold, and
secure additional long-term supplies of gold bearing materials for processing
and future production."
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contact:
Demetri Manolis, CEO Goldplat plc Tel: +27 (0) 11 423 1203
James Joyce WH Ireland Limited Tel: +44 (0) 20 7220 1666
David Porter WH Ireland Limited Tel: +44 (0) 20 7220 1666
Felicity Edwards St Brides Media & Finance Ltd Tel: +44 (0)20 7236 1177
Isabel Crossley St Brides Media & Finance Ltd Tel: +44 (0)20 7236 1177
Notes:
Goldplat is an AIM-listed gold producer with operations in Africa. Its strategy
is to consolidate its position as a gold producer in Africa and build itself
into a highly profitable mid-tier gold company, leveraged through revenue
generated from its gold recovery businesses.
The Company has two recovery businesses based in South Africa and Ghana
producing circa 21,000 ounces of gold per year. These safely dispose of mining
by-products, and fulfil an important aspect of the mines' environmental
management programmes. The South African plant is located near the centre of
the East Rand Goldfield and raw material feedstocks are sourced from many of the
major South African mining companies, including AngloGold Ashanti, Goldfields,
Harmony, DRD Gold and other smaller producers. The Ghana plant, located in the
free port of Tema, provides access to raw materials from mines in Mali, Guinea,
Burkina Faso, Benin, Cote D'Ivorie, Senegal, the DRC and Mauritania, as well as
Ghana.
Goldplat is looking to increase its asset base through the acquisition of known
deposits with targets of between 200,000 and one million contained ounces. Â To
this end, it is developing two projects; its wholly owned Kilimapesa Gold mining
project, located in the historically producing Migori Archaean Greenstone Belt
in western Kenya and the prospective 246 sq km Nyieme Gold Project in Burkina
Faso with a view to establishing a mining operations in the short term.
Kilimapesa Gold commenced initial production in January 2009 and has announced
an initial JORC-compliant resource of 1.65Mt at 2.44 g/t Au for 129,000 oz Au at
a cut-off grade of 1 g/t Au for all categories.
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