VANCOUVER, March 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Luna Gold Corp. (TSXV-LGC) ("Luna" or the "Company") is pleased to provide a further summary of progress on its wholly owned Aurizona gold project in Maranh~ao State, Brazil. Photographs of construction activity are taken at regular intervals and may be viewed on the Company's website at http://www.lunagold.com/s/Building_Aurizona.asp.
Luna's CEO, Jim Bahan, comments, "Further to our announcement of January 12, I am pleased to confirm that commissioning of the process plant gravity circuit has started. The stand-by diesel generators and two of the three ball mills are being used in this phase of plant start up. The plan is to produce gold from gravity only until the carbon-in-leach plant (CIL) plant comes on line, which is expected in the second quarter of 2010. The gravity tailings generated in the coming months, and those from previous garimpeiro workings, will then be directly treated in the CIL, as supplementary feed to run-of-mine (ROM) ore."
Further progress highlights:
- Tailings dam civil construction is completed and finishing works are
in progress.
- Construction of the CIL plant, apart from the feed thickener,
continues with completion expected in the second quarter of this
year. The feed thickener is completed and will be utilized in
commissioning the gravity circuit.
- Mining has commenced in the Piaba pit and currently there are in
excess of 100,000 tonnes of ore on stockpile for feeding the plant in
the event of pit stoppages.
- Construction of the 69Kv power line is in progress with planned
completion in the second quarter of this year.
