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B2Gold Provides an Update on Goose Mine Commissioning, Confirms Consolidated 2025 Production Guidance Range, and Provides Operational Updates for the Fekola, Masbate, and Otjikoto Mines
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- B2Gold Corp. (TSX: BTO, NYSE AMER...
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[{"type":"text","content":"B2Gold Provides an Update on Goose Mine Commissioning, Confirms Consolidated 2025 Production Guidance Range, and Provides Operational Updates for the Fekola, Masbate, and Otjikoto Mines\n\n\n\n VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- B2Gold Corp. (TSX: BTO, NYSE AMERICAN: BTG, NSX: B2G) (“B2Gold” or the “Company”) is announcing an update on operational performance year-to-date in 2025 at each of its four mines. B2Gold confirms 2025 total annual gold production of between 970,000 and 1,075,000 ounces.\n \n\n\n\n Goose Mine - Canada\n \n\n\n\n\n\n The Goose Mine achieved first gold pour on June 30, 2025\n \n\n\n\n\n\n The mine remains on track for commercial production in the coming weeks, and estimates strong gold production in Q4 2025\n \n\n\n\n Project commissioning activities are nearing completion at the Goose Mine. Since first gold production in late June 2025, the Goose mill is achieving consistent performance and daily throughput is increasing. Current daily throughput is approximately 75% of the 4,000 tonnes per day (“tpd”) design capacity (above the Company’s targeted average commercial production rate of 65% of the design capacity) and will increase to full design capacity in the near term as described below.\n \n\n B2Gold anticipates achieving commercial production at the Goose Mine in the coming weeks. The Goose Mine is currently operating, and plans to achieve commercial production, with the use of supplemental mobile crushing capacity to ensure a consistent feed of crushed ore to the mill, as crushing plant capacity has been limited during the third quarter of 2025. B2Gold believes that with this supplemental mobile crushing capacity the Goose mill can operate at design capacity of 4,000 tpd following the throughput ramp-up. Permanent optimizations to the primary crushing and secondary grinding circuits and the installation of surge bin capacity have been engineered, designed, and are being implemented. Use of the mobile crusher is expected to allow the mill to run at design throughput while these modifications are implemented.\n \n\n Due to the crushing plant capacity shortfall in the third quarter of 2025, B2Gold is modifying its 2025 gold production guidance for the Goose Mine to 80,000 to 110,000 ounces (original guidance range of 120,000 t...