Soma Gold Corp. (TSX-V:SOMA) said it will be restarting operations at the el Limon mill which has been under “care and maintenance” since 2019 to support increased gold production at the Cordero Mine in Colombia.
The company said Wednesday that the mill restart process is expected to kick off in early January and take three to four months.
It said it chose to restart operations at the el Limon mill rather than utilize its el Bagre mill due to its proximity to the recently acquired Aurora Mine, where the company anticipates resuming production at the historically producing mine by the end of fiscal 2024.
Cordero’s production currently outstrips the capacity of the company’s el Bagre mill, resulting in a stockpile, the company noted.
Soma Gold said that once it is operational, the el Limon mill will be used to process material from the Cordero and Aurora projects and formalized small miners.
"The restart of the el Limon mill is a pivotal element in our strategy to maximize the use of our assets across our district scale property in Antioquia, Colombia,” Soma Gold CEO Javier Cordova said in a statement.
“The el Limon mill underwent reconstruction and expansion from 2018 to 2019 and went under ‘care and maintenance’ upon our acquisition of the el Bagre Gold Complex in early 2020. It remained in this state until Soma reached a point of generating sufficient feed to utilize the installed capacity of both mills fully. That time has come."
Soma Gold is a mining company focused on gold production and exploration. It owns two adjacent mining properties in Antioquia, Colombia with a combined milling capacity of 675 tons per day.