Rye Patch Gold's Florida Canyon Mine Project Progress Continues

Rye Patch Gold (TSXV:RPM) has provided an update on the Florida Canyon restart project, which has achieved 70 percent completion.
As quoted in the press release:

• The crusher move is complete and all long lead items have arrived;
• Stock-piling of ore has commenced;
• Pregnant and barren ponds are complete;
• Plastic liner is rolling across the lower 1/3 of the leach pad;
• First and second drawdown of credit facility achieved; and
• Project is on budget and is fully funded.

The following information and pictures show the progress of the salient components of the re‑start project.
Mining:
Mining commenced on November 1, 2016 with the first blast from the 5620 bench in the Jasperoid Hill pit.  Ore is being stock piled while the final pieces of the crusher are being put in place.
Crusher:
The crusher is set with all concrete, wiring and dust abatement equipment complete along with a new 12-metre (40 feet) high retaining wall.  The final pieces including a large dump hopper and new radial arm stacker have arrived and are being placed to make the crusher fully operational.  Upon completion, the crusher will start to crush the over liner material and ore for the new heap leach pad.  At full production, the crusher will deliver 545,500 tonnes (600,000 tons) of crushed material to the heap leach pad on a monthly basis – 6.54 million tonnes (7.2 million tons) per annum.
Leach Pad:
Pregnant and barren solution ponds have been lined and are ready for testing.  The lower 100‑metres of the leach pad has been compacted with two levels of clay each measuring 15‑centimetres thick, and plastic liner is being placed.  The project remains on schedule to start loading the lower portion of the new leach pad at the end of November.

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