Agnico Eagle 'Will Be A Top Five Mine,' CEO Predicts As Detour Lake Plans Are Unveiled
Agnico Eagle 'Will Be A Top Five Mine,' CEO Predicts As Detour Lake Plans Are Unveiled
Agnico Eagle Mines (NYSE:AEM) has a new plan to increase gold production at Detour Lake in Ontario.
伊格爾礦業（紐交所：AEM）在安大略省Detour Lake有新計劃增加黃金產量。
What Happened: The company aims to boost production to an average of one million ounces per year over a 14-year period. Agnico plans to start in 2030 as part of its newly released 2024 life-of-mine plan (LoMP).
發生了什麼：該公司計劃在14年期間將產量提高至平均一百萬盎司/年。Agnico計劃於2030年開始實施，作爲其新發布的2024年全礦生命週期計劃（LoMP）的一部分。
"With the development of an underground mine to complement the existing open pit, we see the opportunity to transform Detour Lake into one of the top five gold mines globally by output," Agnico Eagle president and CEO Ammar Al-Joundi said.
“通過發展地下礦以補充現有露天礦，我們看到將Detour Lake變成全球前五大黃金礦山的機會，”Agnico Eagle總裁兼首席執行官Ammar Al-Joundi表示。
Detour Lake, the largest gold-producing mine in Canada, currently operates as an open-pit mine in northeastern Ontario. The updated 2024 LoMP outlines a plan to develop an underground mining project along with the existing operations.
Detour Lake是加拿大最大的黃金生產礦山，目前在安大略省東北部運營爲露天礦。更新的2024年計劃概述了一項與現有業務相結合的地下采礦項目的計劃。
This plan includes a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for concurrent open-pit and underground operations. It aims to increase yearly production by 43%, or 300,000 ounces of gold, from 2030 to 2043.
該計劃包括針對同時進行露天和地下采礦的初步經濟評估（PEA）。它旨在從2030年至2043年將年產量增加43％，即30萬盎司黃金。
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The 2024 PEA proposes an underground mining rate of about 11,200 tons per day starting in 2030 and a mill expansion to 29 million tons per year by 2028. This expansion will help extend Detour Lake's mine life by two years, now projected to continue operations until 2054. Furthermore, ongoing exploration efforts can potentially add resources beyond this timeframe.
2024年PEA建議從2030年開始進行大約每日11,200噸的地下采礦率，並在2028年將磨機擴展到每年2,900萬噸。該擴展將有助於使Detour Lake的採礦壽命延長兩年，現已預計持續運營到2054年。此外，持續的勘探工作可能會在此時間框架之外增加資源。
"We believe the underground project has relatively low execution risk and the potential to generate a strong risk-adjusted return on capital while maintaining exploration and production upside for decades," Al-Joundi said.
“我們認爲地下項目執行風險相對較低，並具有在幾十年內維持勘探和生產優勢的潛力，”Al-Joundi表示。
Agnico Eagle has committed $100 million over the next three years to de-risk the underground project. This investment will fund the development of a 2 km exploration ramp, bulk sample collection, and an intensive drilling program to convert and expand the current underground mineral resource. The company is particularly focused on the western plunge of the mineralization.
Agnico Eagle承諾未來三年投資1億美元以拆除地下項目中的風險。此投資將資助2公里的探礦斜坡開發、樣品收集和密集鑽探計劃，以轉化和擴展當前的地下礦物資源。該公司特別關注礦化物質的西部傾斜面。
The underground mineral resource estimate includes 1.2 million ounces of indicated gold and 7.1 million ounces of inferred gold. Capital expenditures for the underground project and mill optimization are forecasted at $731 million for development and $631 million for sustaining capital. The expected after-tax internal rate of return (IRR) is 25% at a gold price of $1,900 per ounce.
地下礦物資源估計包括1.2百萬盎司的指示性金和7.1百萬盎司的推斷金。地下項目和磨機優化的資本支出預計爲7.31億美元用於開發和6.31億美元用於持續資本。預計在每盎司1900美元的黃金價格下，稅後內部收益率將達到25％。
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