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Rio2 Completes Feasibility Study for Fenix Gold Project
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rio2 Limited (“Rio2” or the “Company”) (TSXV: RIO; OTCQX: RIOFF; BVL: RIO) today announces the F
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[{"type":"text","content":" VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rio2 Limited (“Rio2” or the “Company”) (TSXV: RIO; OTCQX: RIOFF; BVL: RIO) today announces the Feasibility Study (“FS”) for its 100% owned Fenix Gold Project (“Fenix Gold” or the “Project”) located in the Maricunga Mineral Belt of the Atacama Region, Chile. The FS, authored by international mining consultants Mining Plus, includes updated Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve estimates (see Appendix), a run of mine heap leach (ROM) operational plan, and updated capital and operating cost estimates. The deposit is interpreted as an intrusion related, low sulfidation, quartz-sulphide mineralization of deep epithermal type, lately remobilized by supergene processes facilitated by the permeable fine-grained matrix of the phreatomagmatic breccias. Gold mineralization is hosted mainly by the tuffs, breccias, and the dacitic subvolcanic intrusions from the Phreatomagmatic Unit and, in less extent, by andesites and dacitic domes of the same unit. The high-grade gold is commonly associated with low-temperature black banded quartz veins (BBV) which occur in sheeted veins, stockworks, in subangular fragments in phreatomagmatic breccias, and in hydrothermal injections of silica-magnetite. Extensive metallurgical test work supported by geo-metallurgical studies have shown that the oxide mineralization is amenable to cyanidation via ROM heap leaching. All amounts in this news release are in US dollars unless otherwise indicated. FS HIGHLIGHTS 1.77 million gold ounces (“oz”) of Proven and probable Mineral Reserves grading 0.48 grams per tonne (“g/t”) constrained within a $1,650/oz Au gold price pit shell. High-grade to leach pad – 81.2 million tonnes grading 0.55 g/t Au Low-grade to stockpile – 33.5 million tonnes grading 0.31 g/t Au $353.2 million after-tax life of mine (“LOM”) cumulative cash flow (unlevered) $1,237 / oz Au average LOM all-in sustaining costs (“AISC”) – as defined by World Gold Council guidelines Life of Mine (LOM) strip ratio – 0.85:1 Average gold recovery from ROM heap lea...