Australian miner Regis has established a 2Moz maiden ore reserve as it works towards a Dec qtr 2018 construction start and Dec qtr 2019 first production at its McPhillamys gold project 30km east of Bathurst in NSW.
The reserve of 60.1Mt @ 1.05g/t for 2,034,000oz gold was estimated as part of a PFS that outlines a robust $A215M development expected to produce 192,000ozpa at AISC of $990/oz over 9 years.
Regis proposes a traditional simple truck and shovel openpit operation with CIL processing.
Exec chairman Mark Clark the scale and quality of McPhillamys represents an outstanding organic growth opportunity.