Trevali Mining Reports Q2 Production Results For Santander

Trevali Mining (TSX:TV,OTCQX:TREVF,FWB:4TI) reported preliminary production results for the quarter ended June 30 2015 for its Santander mine in Peru. The mine produced 13.7 million payable pounds of zinc, 8.7 million payable pounds of lead and 290,225 payable ounces of silver for the quarter.
As quoted in the press release:

Q2-2015 recoveries at Santander averaged 90% for zinc, 88% for lead and 78% for silver. Mill throughput for the quarter was 190,497 tonnes. Average Q2 head grades were 4.27% Zn, 2.47% Pb and 1.85 oz/ton Ag with production of 14,706 tonnes of zinc concentrate averaging 50% Zn and 7,080 tonnes of lead-silver concentrate averaging 59% Pb and 39.2 oz/ton Ag for the quarter.

The company’s production guidance for Santander remains unchanged at:

• 48 million to 50 million pounds of payable zinc (in concentrate grading approximately 50 per cent Zn) at an average head grade of 4.2 to 4.4 per cent Zn
• 23 million to 25 million pounds of payable lead (in concentrate grading approximately 55 to 57 per cent Pb) at an average head grade of 1.8 to 2.1 per cent Pb
• 850,000 to 950,000 ounces of payable silver at an average head grade of 1.5 to 1.8 ounces per ton Ag

Trevali president and CEO, Dr. Mark Cruise, said:

Now running at solid state capacity and with many of the optimization initiatives and improvements now in place, Santander delivered an excellent production quarter and strongly surpassed its Q1-2015 output. The Company remains strongly on-track to meet its 2015 Santander production guidance.

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