At current gold prices this is worth about US$600 Both smelter treatment charges and oxidation or bio leach costs are at least $200/t of concentrate and payables/recovery in the 90% range so a minimum GSR for effective downstream processing is around Clearly this is a function of gold price but in the current gold price and cost
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Get PriceAnd to convert the of ore processed each year using the formula stated above we multiply it by the grade of /t from the reserves table above That will give us million grams Gold is expressed in troy ounces so million grams is then divided by to result in 135k ounces
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