The Camino Rojo leach pad (front right), pregnant solution pond (back right), and Merrill-Crowe plant (left). Credit: Orla Mining.
Construction is 89% complete and commissioning has begun at Orla Mining’s (TSX: OLA; NYSE: ORLA) Camino Rojo gold heap leach project in Mexico. The first gold pour is scheduled for December 2021.
The company says construction remains on schedule, and that the first ore was fed to the crushing circuit in the third quarter. The crushing system, reclaim tunnel and associated conveyor and complete, as are the camp facilities. The Merrill-Crowe facilities were 98% complete at the end of the quarter. Mining activities are ramping up according to plan. So far this year, Orla said about 757,000 tonnes of ore grading 0.86 g/t gold have been mined.
