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GR Engineering lends gold study expertise to Calidus’ Warrawoona project

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Calidus Resources has appointed GR Engineering Services to carry out the prefeasibility study (PFS) on its Warrawoona gold project in Western Australia.

The PFS is scheduled to be completed in the September quarter.

Calidus said: “GR Engineering are an ASX-listed engineering company that has successfully managed 19 gold feasibility studies and the construction of three gold processing plants in Western Australia in the last two years and has an excellent track record of delivering process plants on time and on budget.”

Calidus Managing Director, Dave Reeves, said: “The appointment of GR Engineering to undertake the PFS for Calidus is another step towards development of the Warrawoona gold project.

“Detailed inputs for the study have been collected over the last 12 months to ensure an accurate representation of the economics can be provided to investors on the completion of the PFS and allow discussions to commence with debt financiers.

“With regional drilling of untested anomalies due to commence next month in parallel with the PFS, we believe we are just starting to unlock the true value of this untested greenstone belt in Western Australia.”

Calidus has outlined a resource of 21.3 Mt at 1.83 g/t Au for 1.25 Moz at Warrawoona, which includes a higher-grade component of 14.6 Mt at 2.37 g/t for 1.1 Moz. Around 64% of the resource is classified as indicated.

Kirkland Lake Gold signs up GR Engineering for Fosterville paste backfill plant

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GR Engineering has won a contract to build a paste backfill plant for Kirkland Lake Gold’s Fosterville mine in Victoria, Australia.

The EPC contract will see the company carry out all process engineering design, supply, construction and commissioning of a plant capable of producing 65 m³/h of paste to fill the stopes in the gold mine. The scope of the work also includes the design of the underground reticulation piping.

GR Engineering is booking A$23.9 million ($17.3 million) for the work, which will start immediately. Completion of the facility is expected in 2019.

This is the second EPC paste backfill contract the ASX-listed company has won in the past few weeks. Earlier this month, Saracen Gold Mines awarded GR Engineering a contract to build and commission a plant able to produce 110-120 m³/h of paste to fill stopes at its Karari underground mine, part of its Carosue Dam operations, in Western Australia.

Kirkland Lake’s Fosterville operation is a high-grade underground mine expected to produce 275,000-300,000 oz of gold this year. It extracts gold via open stoping with cemented rockfill used where applicable and practical.