📋 Tender Overview
Location SonoraScope To build a 3000 tonne per day underground mine and a conventional processing facility with dry stack tailings and underground backfill at Las Chispas. The approval is based on several conditions and requirements and remains in good standing for 14 years until July 2033. It permits up to two dry stack tailings areas within the permitted area as well as using tailings for mine backfill. The operating permit is for underground mining only and is conditional on several standard SEMARNAT requirements designed to protect and monitor the environment which must be completed before construction begins. SilverCrest has 14 drill rigs on site which continue to test expand and upgrade the high-grade resource delineated to date. A feasibility study expected in the first half of 2020.
