The Coringa project is located in the Tapajós Gold Province in Para State, Brazil approximately 200 km from Serabi’s Palito mine, an operation that has been producing gold since 2014. Like Palito, Coringa contains high grade gold in quartz veins with base metal sulphides. The veins are hosted by granite, rhyolites and volcanic breccias.
The technical report supporting the Preliminary Economic Assessment filed in September 2019 anticipates a 465 tpd underground operation using open stoping mining methods. Ore will be processed through the Andorinhas plant (acquired from Troy Resources Limited in 2016) using gravity concentration followed by carbon-in-leach cyanidation of gravity tails. The estimated gold and silver recovery during the life of the mine is 95% for gold and 61% for silver. Gold production is expected to average 38 kozs per year over an initial 9-year mine life. Serabi is working to complete the permitting and licensing processes necessary for development. Construction at Coringa is expected to start during the second half of 2021.
The current Indicated Mineral Resource estimate consists of 735 kt grading 8.2 g/t gold containing 195 kozs of gold (2.0 g/t cut-off). Another 1.6 Mt were listed in the Inferred Mineral Resource category (2.0 g/t cut-off).
Recent Activities
September 2021
Mining development is underway at the Coringa gold project. The mine portal to reach the Serra zone, one of three main zones at Coringa, began in late July. Serabi anticipates intersecting the Serra orebody in mid-October.
January 2021
The Federal Agency for Indigenous Communities FUNAI has confirmed their full support for the Coringa project.
September 2020
Serabi announced that they received the Licencia Previa (“Preliminary License” or “LP”) for the Coringa project. The LP represents the first of a three-stage licensing process required for mining projects in Brazil.
