Tietto Minerals Ltd (ASX:TIE) remains confident that it will deliver the 3.45-million-ounce Abujar Gold Project in Côte d’Ivoire on schedule and to budget, with first gold pour on track for the end of the year.
The project remains lost-time injury free, with semi-autogenous grinding, or SAG, mill installation progressing on schedule and carbon-in-leach tanks at full height.
The structural mechanical piping contractor is now on site and concrete works are reaching practical completion, with the last aspects of this work due to wrap by the end of this month.
The camp is more than 70% operational and work on the tailings storage facility and diversion channel is moving ahead.
The company has also completed a $130-million two-tranche placement to accelerate development of Abujar without debt.
About Tietto Minerals
Tietto Minerals Ltd is developing a multi-million-ounce gold resource at its flagship Abujar Gold Project in Côte D’Ivoire, West Africa.
The project is close to good regional and local infrastructure and is on track to be West Africa’s next gold mine, with first gold targeted for the fourth quarter of 2022.
The project comprises three contiguous tenements with a total land area of 1,114 square kilometres and has a growing mineral resource of 87.5 million tonnes at 1.2 g/t gold for 3.35 million ounces.