Continental Gold Increases Gold Ounces by 30% in Updated Resource Estimate at Buritica

POSTED ON May 13, 2014 BY Ann Lee
CATEGORY Ari Sussman, Continental Gold, Stories,

Underground development tunnels at Buritica (Source: Continental Gold Ltd.)

Colombian gold developer and winner of the Mining Journals 2013 Exploration Award, Continental Gold (CNL:TSX), which is developing the multi-million ounce high-grade Buritica gold project released their updated mineral resource estimate. The estimate saw total gold ounces increase by nearly 1/3 (~30%) from 5.4 million ounces to 7 million ounces. M&I ounces increased by over 70% to 2.8 million ounces from the previous 1.64 million ounces.

This was attained by increasing the total tonnage included from 3.74Mt to 8.39Mt and represents successful infill drilling which was the company's focus. The company remains on track to meet their stated goal of growing Buritica to over 10 million ounces of gold and to be in production by 2017.

The average grade dropped slightly from 9.9g/t to 8.7g/t (a drop of 12% for total ounces). M&I grades dropped the most from 13.6g/t to 10.4g/t using a 3g/t gold cut-off (representing a drop of 24%). The drop in grade should be seen as acceptable given the success in upgrading inferred ounces to M&I as well as the total increase in ounces.

Grade/Tonnage charts for the Buritica project (Source: Continental Gold Ltd.)

This resource updated the October 2012 resource estimate and is based on a total of 202,982m of drilling and 3,735m of underground sampling.

The release indicates that 65% and 78% of the Yaragua and Veta Sur vein resources, respectively are situated above the 1,200m elevation which represents the main access elevation. A large portion of the M&I gold ounces are also situated above this level, meaning that access to the majority of the known deposit will be made through the main access as proposed in the current development plans.

Continental Gold's management believes there is much remaining potential at the Yaragua and Veta Sur vein systems as they remain open both at depth and laterally. Also of note in the release is that the current resource excludes a number of high-grade veins in these two systems which saw limited drilling by the resource estimate cut-off date of December 31, 2013.

Ari Sussman, CEO of Continental Gold commented: "Although our precious metal resource estimate grew from the prior estimate, we are particularly pleased with the approximately 70-per-cent increase of our measured and indicated gold resource.

Additionally, we look forward to further growth in all resource categories as underground drilling has just begun from the Higabra Valley tunnel, located at an elevation of 1,170 metres, which is below the elevation of much of this resource estimate. It is of particular importance for us to add measured and indicated resources around the 1,200-metre elevation and proximal elevations, as this potentially opens the door to mine plan scenarios with even greater throughput rates than currently being contemplated."

Continental is still cashed up having ended Q1/2014 with $103 million in cash. The company has outperformed the GDXJ index YTD:

Remaining Catalysts:

Signing of Remaining 2 Sub-Contracts with Artisinal Miners (Q3/2014)
Environmental Permits (Q2/Q3 2015)
Updated Resource Estimate (H2 2015)
Pre-Feasibility Study (H2 2015)

Read: Continental Gold Announces an Updated Mineral Resource Estimate for the Buritica Project, Colombia

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