DESIGNATED NEWS RELEASE
VANCOUVER, BC, Sept. 7,
2023 /PRNewswire/ - GoldMining Inc. (the
"Company" or "GoldMining") (TSX: GOLD) (NYSE
American: GLDG) is pleased to announce the filing of an independent
National Instrument 43-101 ("NI 43-101") Technical Report
("Technical Report"), including an updated Preliminary
Economic Assessment ("PEA") for the Company's 100% owned La
Mina Project ("La Mina"), located in Antioquia, Colombia.
All currency amounts herein are in US dollars unless otherwise
indicated.
PEA Highlights
- Total projected life of mine ("LOM") production of
approximately 1.74 million gold equivalent ounces averaging 155,500
ounces over the estimated 11 year life.
- Projected LOM production of 1.29 million ounces of gold, 203.9
million pounds of copper and 2.98 million ounces of silver at
recoveries of 91%, 80% and 64%, respectively.
- After-tax Net Present Value ("NPV5%") of
approximately $279 million at base
case commodity prices of $1,750 per
ounce of gold, $21 per ounce of
silver, and $3.50 per pound of
copper; and approximately $442
million at spot commodity prices.
- Total cash cost of $795 per ounce
of gold and All-In Sustaining Cost ("AISC") of $912 per ounce of gold (net of by-product
credits).
- Initial capital expenditures of approximately $425 million for a 15,000 tonne per day
processing facility fed by a conventional truck and loader open pit
mining operation with sustaining capital and mine closure
expenditures of approximately $203
million.
- After-tax IRR of 15.2% with a payback of 5.6 years.
TABLE 1: PEA Summary of Key Metrics (effective July 24, 2023)
Parameter
|
Units
|
Base Case
|
Spot Price
|
Metal Prices
|
|
|
|
Gold
|
$/oz
|
1,750
|
1,975
|
Copper
|
$/lb
|
3.50
|
3.75
|
Silver
|
$/oz
|
21.00
|
25.00
|
Production Data
|
|
|
|
Mine Life
|
years
|
11.2
|
|
Mined Mineralized
Material
|
million
tonnes
|
61.3
|
|
Process Plant
Production Rate
|
tpd
|
15,000
|
|
Process Plant Feed
Grade
|
Au g/t
|
0.72
|
|
|
Ag g/t
|
2.36
|
|
|
Cu %
|
0.19
|
|
|
AuEq1
g/t
|
1.01
|
|
Strip Ratio
|
ratio
|
5.49
|
|
Average Annual
Production
|
oz AuEq
|
155,500
|
|
Total LOM Payable
Production
|
million oz
AuEq
|
1.69
|
|
Operating Costs
|
|
|
|
LOM Cash Unit
Cost
|
$/t
processed
|
21.27
|
|
LOM Total Cash
Cost
|
$/oz
|
795
|
|
LOM All-In Sustaining
Unit Cost (AISC)
|
$/oz
|
912
|
|
LOM All-In Unit
Cost2
|
$/oz
|
1,157
|
|
Capital Costs
|
|
|
|
Pre-production
Capital
|
$ million
|
424.8
|
|
Sustaining
Capital
|
$ million
|
163.4
|
|
Closure
|
$ million
|
39.8
|
|
Total
Capital
|
$ million
|
628.0
|
|
Financial Analysis
|
|
|
|
Pre-Tax
NPV(5%)
|
$ million
|
447.3
|
678.7
|
After-Tax
NPV(5%)
|
$ million
|
279.5
|
442.2
|
Pre-Tax IRR
|
%
|
20.4
|
27.0
|
After-Tax
IRR
|
%
|
15.2
|
20.2
|
After-Tax
Payback
|
years
|
5.6
|
4.9
|
1
Gold-equivalent grades were calculated using the following formula:
AuEq = Au (g/t) + [Cu(%) x {Cu Price/Au Price} x 22.0462 x 31.1035]
+ [Ag (g/t) x {Ag Price/Au Price}].
|
2 Reported
as AISC in the July 24, 2023 news release.
|
Compared to the PEA figures disclosed by the Company in the news
release dated July 24, 2023, the
results announced herein and in the Technical Report include minor
corrections primarily to address the accounting of plant
availability and clarifications on specific calculations. For
example, the total estimated mine life has been revised to 11.2
years from the previously announced 12.2 years as a result of an
increase in annual throughput estimates to reflect nameplate
capacity.
The PEA study results of La Mina are preliminary in nature and
are intended to provide an initial assessment of the project's
economic potential and development options. The PEA mine
schedule and economic assessment includes numerous assumptions and
is based on inferred mineral resources that are considered too
speculative geologically to have the economic considerations
applied to them that would enable them to be categorized as mineral
reserves, and there is no certainty that the project economic
assessments described herein will be achieved or that the PEA
results will be realized.
Readers should refer to the full text of the Technical Report,
which is titled "NI 43-101 Technical Report and Preliminary
Economic Assessment for the La Mina Project", with an effective
date of July 24, 2023 and is filed
under the Company's profile at www.sedarplus.ca.
Qualified Persons
Scott E. Wilson, CPG, SME-RM is
an author of the Technical Report, is independent of the Company
and is a Qualified Person as such term is defined under NI 43-101,
and has reviewed and approved the scientific and technical
information contained herein.
Paulo Pereira, P.Geo., President
of GoldMining, has reviewed and approved the technical information
contained in this news release. Mr. Pereira is a Qualified
Person as defined in NI 43-101.
About GoldMining Inc.
The Company is a public mineral exploration company focused on
the acquisition and development of gold assets in the Americas.
Through its disciplined acquisition strategy, the Company now
controls a diversified portfolio of resource-stage gold and
gold-copper projects in Canada,
U.S.A., Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. The Company also owns more than 21
million shares of Gold Royalty Corp. (NYSE American: GROY), 9.8
million shares of U.S. GoldMining Inc. (Nasdaq: USGO), and 16.6
million shares of NevGold Corp. (TSXV: NAU).
Notice to Readers
Disclosure regarding the La Mina Project, including the PEA and
Mineral Resource estimates included herein, has been prepared by
the Company in accordance with NI 43-101. NI 43-101 is a rule of
the Canadian Securities Administrators which establishes standards
for all public disclosure an issuer makes of scientific and
technical information concerning mineral projects. Technical
disclosure contained in this news release has been prepared in
accordance with NI 43-101 and the Canadian Institute of Mining,
Metallurgy and Petroleum Classification System. These
standards differ from the requirements of the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission ("SEC") and the scientific and technical
information contained in this news release, including resource
estimates and the results of the PEA, may not be comparable to
similar information disclosed by domestic United States companies subject to the SEC's
reporting and disclosure requirements.
Forward-looking
Statements
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements
that reflect the current views and/or expectations of GoldMining
with respect to its expectations and ongoing and proposed work at
the La Mina Project, the results of the PEA, including the
production, operating and other cost estimates, metal price
assumptions, cash flow projections, metal recoveries, mine life
projections and production rates for the La Mina Project and the
Company's expectations regarding potential opportunities to build
upon the PEA. Forward-looking statements are based on the
then-current expectations, beliefs, assumptions, estimates and
forecasts about the business and the markets in which GoldMining
operates. Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking
statements involve risks and uncertainties, including: the inherent
risks involved in the exploration and development of mineral
properties, fluctuating metal prices, unanticipated costs and
expenses, risks related to government and environmental regulation,
social, permitting and licensing matters, and uncertainties
relating to the availability and costs of financing needed in the
future. These risks, as well as others, including those set forth
in GoldMiningꞌs Annual Information Form for the year ended
November 30, 2022, and other filings
with Canadian securities regulators and the SEC, could cause actual
results and events to vary significantly. Accordingly, readers
should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements and
information. There can be no assurance that forward-looking
information, or the material factors or assumptions used to develop
such forward-looking information, will prove to be accurate. The
Company does not undertake any obligations to release publicly any
revisions for updating any voluntary forward-looking statements,
except as required by applicable securities law.
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