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Friday, 27th March 2009 (1237 views)

The resumption date for gold mining at Caijiaying property has been announced by its owners Griffin Mining.

June 1st will see production restarting at the site, with this being delayed as remaining ore stockpiles were worked up until February, leading to important maintenance operations being held up.

Poor winter weather and delays in the arrival of some parts also set back the preparatory work.

Griffin had previously announced its intention to resume mining at Caijiaying on December 19th last year.

In June 2008 the company's chairman Mladen Ninkov outlined the company's plans for the mine at its annual general meeting.

These included construction work to increase the capacity of the mill to process 750,000 tonnes of ore each year, plus an underground drive between the zone two and zone three areas, allowing further development of the former location and more exploratory drilling.

 

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